Zeus : a study in ancient religion . The central slab from the Eastern Frieze of the Parthenon,I. The relief as extant in the British Museum. plesenting the ritual Apotheosis of the King and Queen at Athens:i he relief with flat coloration and metal accessories restored. See pagi ii35ff. b Tj^u^ Meilic/iios ii35 the sons of Stilbe by Apollon^, or by the contiguity of the Olympieion to thePythion^. In any case it is noteworthy that at Ardettos, just across theIhssos, Athenian jurors used to swear by Apollon Patroios^ Demeter, and ZeusBasiletis^. The myth of Periphas comes to us from an age that
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . The central slab from the Eastern Frieze of the Parthenon,I. The relief as extant in the British Museum. plesenting the ritual Apotheosis of the King and Queen at Athens:i he relief with flat coloration and metal accessories restored. See pagi ii35ff. b Tj^u^ Meilic/iios ii35 the sons of Stilbe by Apollon^, or by the contiguity of the Olympieion to thePythion^. In any case it is noteworthy that at Ardettos, just across theIhssos, Athenian jurors used to swear by Apollon Patroios^ Demeter, and ZeusBasiletis^. The myth of Periphas comes to us from an age that had largely forgottenits own antecedents. Few, if any, citizens even of Periclean Athens would havedared to assert that on the banks of the Ilissos there once lived a line of kingsclaiming to be Zeus incarnate. Nevertheless that is the real gist,of the tale, andI do not see how we are to avoid accepting it as a genuine echo of bygonebeliefs. After all, Periclean Athens, democratic to the core, still had its kingand still remembered
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