Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

744 Gradual elimination of the thunderbolt
on a gem\ From time to time efforts were made to soften the rude
force of his archaic pose. A little bronze in the British Museum
(fig. 682)^ wraps a chlamys about his ai%i. A red-figured amphora
THUNDERBOLT* EACLfc
ffarnr'Jf^on Coll
Fig. 682.
formerly in the Pourtales collection (fig. 683)^ gave him a chiton as
well as a small hhndtion. But the Hellenic Zeus never took kindly
to the chiton'^, and such a garb (where not a mark of foreign
(Mionnet Descr. de mid. ant. Suppl. ii. 392 no. 1133). (9) On a copper of Serdike in
Thrace, struck by Caracalla (G. Seure in the Rev. £t. Gr. 191 3 xxvi. 240).
^ Reinach Piei'res Gravies p. 134 no. i, 4 pi. 123 (cornelian in the collection of the
due d'Orleans with an affected, archaistic version of the type—Zeus on tiptoe, etc.).
^ H. B. Walters in the Brit. Mus. Cat. Bronzes p. 172 no. 927. Restored: right leg
below knee ; left foot and ankle. Height 3!^ ins. Fig. 682 is from a photograph by
Mr W. H. Hayles.
^ J. J. Dubois Description des antiques faisant purtie des collections de M. le comte de
Poitrtalh-Gorgier Paris 1841 p. 27 no. 123 fig., O. Jahn in the Ann. d. hist. 1869 xli.
181, Overbeck Gr. Knnstmyth. Zeus p. 365 no. 18, MtlUer—Wieseler—Wernicke Ant.
Denkm. i. 29 pi. 2, 9 ( = my lig. 683).
* In //. 5. 733 ff. =8. 384 ff. Athena, when she arms herself for the fray, puts off ber
o-wnpiplos and puts on the chiton of Zeus. The passage was admired in antiquity (Eustath.