Zeus : a study in ancient religion . onthe north bank of the river, just outside the Themistoclean wall*, there was con-venient space for the people to assemble^. They did so on Anthesterion 22 or 23®,which in the time of Plutarch would have corresponded with March 22 or2y. The inference to be drawn from this dating is that the Diasia, like theLesser Mysteries of Agra {c. Anthesterion 20^) or the Pithoigia^ Choes^ andC>^j/r^/(Anthesterion 11 —13^), had a character at once chthonian and agrarian ^^.Zeus Meilichios^ the buried king, was the giver of animal and vegetable life. KoX xpv(X(^ Ko&l

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Zeus : a study in ancient religion . onthe north bank of the river, just outside the Themistoclean wall*, there was con-venient space for the people to assemble^. They did so on Anthesterion 22 or 23®,which in the time of Plutarch would have corresponded with March 22 or2y. The inference to be drawn from this dating is that the Diasia, like theLesser Mysteries of Agra {c. Anthesterion 20^) or the Pithoigia^ Choes^ andC>^j/r^/(Anthesterion 11 —13^), had a character at once chthonian and agrarian ^^.Zeus Meilichios^ the buried king, was the giver of animal and vegetable life. KoX xpv(X(^ Ko<Tixi\< TO (LyoKfJia iKTe\^<x€iv tov Aids, supra i. 2 n. 2). Imperial coppers ofMegara show a seated Zeus holding a Nike [Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Attica etc. p. 122pi. 22, I = my fig. 959, Imhoof-Blumer and P. Gardner A^z/w. Comm. Pates, i. 4 f. pi. A, 3,Head Hist, num.^ p. 394) or an eagle (Imhoof-Blumer and P. Gardner op. cit. i. 5),which may be meant for Theokosmos masterpiece, and a Zeus striding to the right with.

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