Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

4i6 Artemis and the Oak
former describes how the hero's sinews were caught on it^ ; the latter
makes him fairly impaled by it^ Coppers of Troizen, struck by
Septimius Severus (fig. 3 19)^ and lulia Domna (fig. 320)^ show the
citadel crowned by a distyle temple and flanked by a couple of
Fig- 323-
trees, apparently olive and cypress. Another copper of the same
town, issued by Commodus (fig. 32 1)^ represents Hippolytos, with
hunting-spear and hound, leaning on a knotted tree-stump. An
Apulian krater from Ruvo, now in the British Museum (fig. 322)^,
^ Ov. met. 15. 521 ff. 2 Sen. Phaedr. iiojf.
* Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Peloponnesus p. 167 pi. 31, 8 ( = myfig. 319), Imhoof-Blumer
and P. Gardner Num. Comm. Paris, i. 47 pi. M, 4. The temple is that of Athena Sthenids
(Paus. 2. 30. 6, 2. 32. 5
: see further O. Hofer in Roscher Lex. Myth. iv. 1532 f.).
* Hunter Cat. Coins ii. 156 pi. 39, 14 ( = my fig. 320), Mionnet Descr. de mid. ant.
Suppl. iv. 271 no. 208, Imhoof-Blumer and P. Gardner Num. Comtn. Pans. i. 47.
^ C. R. Fox Evgravings of Miedited or rare Greek Coins London 1856 i. 25 no. 100
pi. 9 ( = my fig. 321), W. M. Leake Numismata Helknica London 1856 European Greece
p. 165 Add. (electrotype), Imhoof-Blumer and P. Gardner Num. Comm. Pans. i. 48
pi. M, 8.
• Brit. Mus. Cat. Vases iv. 136 ff. no. F 279, T. Panofka in the ArcA. Zeit. 1848 ii.
245 f., A. Kalkmann ib. 1883 xli. 43 ff. pi. 6 = Reinach R6p. Vases i. 446, Overbeck Gr.