Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

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stands a Maenad \ in a richly embroidered pcplos with a wreath of
ivy on her hair, grasping a couple of lit torches ; behind him, a
similarly draped and wreathed Maenad^ carrying a thyrsos, and a
clumsy dancing Satyr. To the left is Hermes, who beckons the
thiasos away to their nightly revels on the mountain. In the background
are seen the upper parts of four Doric columns supporting
an architrave—a rough sketch of the Delphic temple on its terraced
Dionysos, it will be observed, has gone: the Maenads and the Satyr
are going.
But even when Apollon had entered into full possession of the
Delphic seat it was not forgotten that he derived his authority from
Zeus. Another late Attic h&W-krater, formerly in the Lamberg col-
lection and now at Vienna (fig. l74)^ shows Zeus instructing
Apollon in the presence of other deities. Apollon, with a baywreath
on his head, a bay-branch in his right hand, and a bay-bush
at his left side, sits before the filleted oviphalos, on the other side of
epithets Aa^^aios, \abpoi, Aa