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Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

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The axe carried by priests and priestesses 627<br />

koptes^ the ' Cutter,' beat out his victims with the iron mallet" of<br />

his father Polypemon* or lopped their limbs to suit his fatal bed,<br />

till Theseus came and served him as he had served others. Attic<br />

red-figured vases from the end of the sixth century onwards depict<br />

the hero attack<strong>in</strong>g his ferocious host with uplifted double axe^<br />

Whence did he obta<strong>in</strong> the axe ? Presumably he wrenched it from<br />

the hand of Damastes and carried it afterwards <strong>in</strong> token of his<br />

victory". However that may be", the western pediment <strong>in</strong> the<br />

C. Robert <strong>in</strong> U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff Aiis Kydathen Berl<strong>in</strong> 1880 p. 227 po<strong>in</strong>ted<br />

out that TrpoKpo6eii> is the technical term for beat<strong>in</strong>g out a plate or bar of metal.<br />

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