Zeus : a study in ancient religion . 4. Kallistrat. cKcppdcreLs 6. 1^4 ( On the statue of Kairos at Sikyon) states that thefigure wrought by Lysippos for the Sicyonians was a bronze boy in the bloom of youth,for the most part resembling Dionysos, but with unusual hair—long in front and at thesides, free of tresses at the back—and with winged heels set on a sphere. Nothing is saidof razor or scales. ^ F. Studniczka Die Siegesgoettin Leipzig 1898 p. 20 pi. 4, 23, 26 f. See also suprai. 48 f. figs. 20, 22. Kairos 86i Nemesis^ But the most remarkable innovation of the period remains to bementioned
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . 4. Kallistrat. cKcppdcreLs 6. 1^4 ( On the statue of Kairos at Sikyon) states that thefigure wrought by Lysippos for the Sicyonians was a bronze boy in the bloom of youth,for the most part resembling Dionysos, but with unusual hair—long in front and at thesides, free of tresses at the back—and with winged heels set on a sphere. Nothing is saidof razor or scales. ^ F. Studniczka Die Siegesgoettin Leipzig 1898 p. 20 pi. 4, 23, 26 f. See also suprai. 48 f. figs. 20, 22. Kairos 86i Nemesis^ But the most remarkable innovation of the period remains to bementioned. The gems in question all represent the nude and agile figure, notmerely with well-marked forelock and smooth occiput, but also with a full can only mean that the verbal misuse of kairos for chronos^ has led to acorresponding typological confusion of Kairos with Chronos. It is, indeed, likely that confusion became more confounded, since Chronoswas constantly interchanged with Kronos^ and Kronos too appears as a bald-. Fig. 799. headed god hastening along with a sickle-knife in his hand^. Thus we reach thesingular result that Kairos youngest of the sons of Zeus has actually beentransformed into a figure resembling that of his own grandfather Kronos^, whileby a further surprising coincidence Krd?tos, as we have seen^, is derivable fromthe same root as Kairos. Others distinguished the types and continued to portray Kairos as a youthfulgod. A relief at Turin (fig. 799) shows him, with forelock and tonsure, balancing ^ H. Posnansky Nemesis und Adrasteia Breslau 1890 p. 113. See also supra pp. 99 n. I, 734 n- 3- ^ C. A. Lobeck in his ed. of Soph. Ai. Lipsiae 1835 p, 85 n.*. ^ Supra p. 374. ^ Supra p. 550 fig. 426. ^ We are almost reminded of Zagreus the shape-shifter, who appeared now as ayouthful Zeus, now as an aged Kronos {supra i. 398 f., 647). ^ Supra p. 549 n. 6. ^ A. Rivautella—J. P. Ricolvi Monmnenta Taurinensia Augustre Taurinorum 1747ii. 4 ff. no. 22 with
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