Identifier: zeusstudyinancie02cook (find matches)
Title: Zeus : a study in ancient religion
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952
Subjects: Zeus (Greek deity) Cults Sun worship Classical antiquities Folk literature
Publisher: Cambridge (Eng.) The University Press
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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godKairos must needs become the goddess Occasio^ poised on a little wheel \ withwinged feet and the traditional coifftcre. 1 Furtwangler Ant. Gemfnen i pi. 30, 38, ii. 149 publishes a gem, on which Kairosas a nude youthful runner, with wings on shoulders, winglets on ankles, small roundmirror (?) in right hand and whip in left, sets one foot on a four-spoked wheel. Inscrip-tion : L • S • P. A limestone relief (height on left o40, breadth at bottom c^;) of s. iii or iv fromThebes, now at Cairo, shows a youthful figure in military costume, with wreath, shoulder-wings, knife, wheel, and balance, running towards the right. Below are two females, oneflying at the same pace, the other left behind in an attitude of dejection. J. StrzygowskiKoptische Kunst (Service des Antiquitis de VJ^gypte: Catalogue glndral des AntiquitdsEgyptiennes du Musee du Caire) Vienne 1904 p. 103 f. no. 8757 fig. 159 calls themKairos, irpdvoia and /jLerduoia. Cp. A. Muiioz in LA7-te 1905 viii. 150 fig. 5, O. M.
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Fig. 801. Dalton Byzantine Art and Archaeology Oxford 1911 p. 158 with fig. 65 ( = my fig. 801).But P. Perdrizet in the Bull. Corr. Hell. 1912 xxxvi. 263 ff. fig. i takes the subject to beNemesis trampling on Hybris (supra i. 269 fig. 195), with Metanoia behind. Cp. Lamerin Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. x. 1514. The latter interpretation is probably correct,though the type of Nemesis here is influenced by that of Kairos. A relief from Thasos, now at Constantinople, has two niches side by side. In the onestands a youthful winged figure in short chiton and hinidtion, with balance in right handand wheel beneath feet. In the other is a pair of draped females, touching bosom ofdress with right hand and holding short rod in left. A. Munoz in LArte 1906 ix. 212 ff.fig. I viewed them as Kairos (or Bios) with Pronoia and Metanoia. But O. Rossbach in 864 Appendix A Having rung the changes from youth to eld and from male to female, thisProtean personage reappears in Byzantine letters and art, someti

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