Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

8oo The thunderbolt of Zeus
But neither Achilles nor Kastor spells Hades, and the only
evidence adduced for the forked spear as an attribute of this deity
will not bear inspection. A kylix signed by the potter Brygos,
found at Vulci, and now preserved in the Stadel'sches Kunstinstitut
at Frankfurt, has for its central design a bearded male
Fig. 767.
figure with a two-pronged spear or fork pursuing a woman (fig. ydjy
F. G. Welcker took the pair to be Plouton and Persephone^ But
in point of fact they are Poseidon and Aithra (or Amymone).
For later and more careful investigation^ has shown that essential
parts of the design are due to some modern restorer, who has ifiter
^ E. Gerhard Trinkschalen und Gefdsse des Koniglichen Museums zu Berlin und
anderer Sammlun^en Berlin 1848 i. 10 fF. pi. A—B ( = my fig. 767). Bibliography in
Hoppin Red-fig. Vases i. 108 f. no. 3* fig.
- F. T. Welcker ' Le nozze di Plutone e Proserpina' in the Ann. d. Inst. 1850 xxii.
109— ri8 pi. G, id. Alt. Denkm. iii. 93— 104 (' Der Ehebund der Persephone mit dem
Pluton') pi. 12, Reinach R^p. Vases i. 286, i.
•* Wien. Vorlegebl. viii pi. i (=my fig. 768), Hoppin op. cit. i. 109 fig.