Zeus : a study in ancient religion . le kept by forty dragons in a garden ^ We think of Herakles,the great twin brother of Iphikles, who seeks the golden apples of the Hes-perides, apples that grow in the garden of Zeus and are kept by the dragonLadon^. The same folk-tale hero rides a green winged horse, which can thunderand lighten^. We are familiar with the winged horse Pegasos, of whom Hesiodwrote: In Zeus home he dwells Bearing the thunder-peal and lightning-flash For Zeus the wise*. 1 Stipra p. 1003. ^ K. Seeliger in Roscher Lex. Myth. i. -2594 ff. ^ Supra p. 1003. ^ Hes. theog. 285 f., c
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . le kept by forty dragons in a garden ^ We think of Herakles,the great twin brother of Iphikles, who seeks the golden apples of the Hes-perides, apples that grow in the garden of Zeus and are kept by the dragonLadon^. The same folk-tale hero rides a green winged horse, which can thunderand lighten^. We are familiar with the winged horse Pegasos, of whom Hesiodwrote: In Zeus home he dwells Bearing the thunder-peal and lightning-flash For Zeus the wise*. 1 Stipra p. 1003. ^ K. Seeliger in Roscher Lex. Myth. i. -2594 ff. ^ Supra p. 1003. ^ Hes. theog. 285 f., cp. Yjwx. Bellerophonies frag. 312 Nauck- 1)0 apixaT^ eXdcou Tirjvb^affTpairrj(t)opeL. I do not know any ancient representation of Pegasos as a very remarkable red-figured hydria at Paris (De Ridder Cat. Vases de la Bibl. Nat. no. 449, J. B. Biot in the Ann. d. Inst. 1847 xix. i84ff., Mon. d. Inst, iv pi. 39, 2 ( = niyfig. 885), Reinach Ri^p. Vases i. 129, 4. R Eijler Weltenmantel tindHimnielszelt Miinchen. Fig. 885. 1910 i. 84 n. 1 fig. 26 ( Apotropaische Darstellung einer Sonnenfinsternis)) appears torepresent him as a constellation in the sky. My friend Prof. E. T. Whittaker, lateAstronomer Royal of Ireland, has kindly supplied me with the following note on thisunique vase-painting: Four stars of approximately equal magnitude will be noticed forming a rectangularfigure flanked by two other stars. There are in the northern sky two well-known instancesof stars disposed in a rectangle, viz. the body of the Plough (Ursa Major) and the greatsquare of Pegasus. Here the addition of Pegasus himself puts the meaning beyond doubt. The fact that the moon appears as a comparatively thin crescent shows that a time ioi8 Appendix F The hero of another folk-tale captures the Winged Horse of the Plain : hewaits till it stoops its head in drinking from a spring, then leaps on to its back,and makes it swear by its brother to serve him^. He too can be paralleled byBel
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