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Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

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380 The significance of lanus' double face<br />

dresses him <strong>in</strong> a short cJiitSn with ornamental borders and a lion-<br />

sk<strong>in</strong>^ knotted about his chest. The later vase makes one face<br />

bearded, the other beardless, adds eyes all over him, and equips him<br />

with petasos, panther-sk<strong>in</strong>^, and club. Aga<strong>in</strong>, Boreas, the Thracian<br />

w<strong>in</strong>d-god, who recalls the Cilician <strong>Zeus</strong> Boreios'^, occurs on a red-<br />

Fisi. 287<br />

figured stdv<strong>in</strong>os <strong>in</strong> the Ciai collection at Chiusi as a w<strong>in</strong>ged man,<br />

with Janiform head, pursu<strong>in</strong>g Oreithyia :<br />

her<br />

companions scatter to<br />

right and left, while a youth stands by as spectator (fig. 288)^<br />

In this unique representation of Boreas both faces are bearded, but<br />

beard and hair on the one side are dark, on the other side lights<br />

1845 iii- 72— 76 pi. 4 (=niy fig. 287), E. Vitet <strong>in</strong> the Rev. Arch. 1846 p. 308 ff. fig. i<br />

(worse), Lenormant—de Witte El. nwn. dr. iii. 266, K. B. Stark <strong>in</strong> the Ann. d. Inst.<br />

i860 xxxii. 331, R. Schone ib. 1865 xxxvii. 150 n. i, Overbeck Gr. Kt<strong>in</strong>stniyih. <strong>Zeus</strong><br />

pp. 92, 479 f. Atlas pi. 7, 13, K. Blondel <strong>in</strong> Daremberg—Saglio Did. Ant. \. 419 fig. 508,<br />

Re<strong>in</strong>ach Ri!p. Vases i. 469, i. Class. Rev. 1904 xviii. 367, K. Wernicke <strong>in</strong> Pauly— Wissowa<br />

Real-Enc. ii. 794.<br />

^ E. Vitet loc. (it. p. 312 ' une peau de chevre ou d'agneau.'<br />

^ E. Vitet loc. cit. p. 311' une peau de chevre.' But K. Wernicke loc. cit. ' Pantherfell.'<br />

^ Supra i. 142 n. 10.<br />

* K. B. Stark ' Borea ed Orizia' <strong>in</strong> the Ann. d. Inst, i860 xxxii. 320— 345<br />

pi. L—<br />

(=my fig. 288), A. Rapp <strong>in</strong> Roscher Lex. Myth. i. 808 f. fig., Re<strong>in</strong>ach Rilp. Vases i. 305,<br />

R. Lantier <strong>in</strong> Daremberg— Saglio Diet. Ant. v. 719.<br />

^ K. B. Stark loc. cit. p. 326; ' Ambedue le faccie sono contornate da ricca barba e<br />

ricca capigliatura, dist<strong>in</strong>te tra lore mediante il colore. Nella faccia cioe volta <strong>in</strong>dietro<br />

sono di color nero come <strong>in</strong> tutte le altre figure ; nell' opposta all' <strong>in</strong>contro 1' artista ha<br />

voluto esprimere il color biondo per 1' impasto del color nero a guisa di velatura.' Stark<br />

loc. cit. p. 332 ff. expla<strong>in</strong>s this difference of colour<strong>in</strong>g as an attempt to express the twofold<br />

power of Boreas, who can either gather the clouds together or chase them from the sky.<br />

L. Stephani Boreas und die Boreaden St.-Petersbourg 1871 p. 12 n. i prefers to see <strong>in</strong> it

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