Zeus : a study in ancient religion . Pausanias took the Agathos Theosto be a sort of Zeus. Tiberius Claudius Xenokles, after serving as fire-bearer, set up analtar at Epidauros in 224 a. D. to the local Agathos Theos, whom he represented as achthonian Zeus with a sceptre in his right hand, a cornu copiae in his left, and a snakewriggling below (P. Cavvadias Fouilles dEpidaure Athenes 1893 i. 45 no. 44, HarrisonThemis p. 285 f. fig. 75, M. Frankel in the Inscr. Gr. Pelop. i no. 1059 ^^^^ numeral -wBand circle no. 2 ib. p. 186 possibly meant for a snake emerging from its hole (?)); cp. anotherbl

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Zeus : a study in ancient religion . Pausanias took the Agathos Theosto be a sort of Zeus. Tiberius Claudius Xenokles, after serving as fire-bearer, set up analtar at Epidauros in 224 a. D. to the local Agathos Theos, whom he represented as achthonian Zeus with a sceptre in his right hand, a cornu copiae in his left, and a snakewriggling below (P. Cavvadias Fouilles dEpidaure Athenes 1893 i. 45 no. 44, HarrisonThemis p. 285 f. fig. 75, M. Frankel in the Inscr. Gr. Pelop. i no. 1059 ^^^^ numeral -wBand circle no. 2 ib. p. 186 possibly meant for a snake emerging from its hole (?)); cp. anotherblock erected at Epidauros in 187 by Tiberius Claudius Pollio, after service as hiera-polos, to the Agathos Theos and to Agathe (P. Cavvadias op. cit. i. 44 f. nos. 41—41a,M. Frankel loc. cit. i no. 997 : Agathos Theos has numeral ^7 and circle no. i ib. p. 186possibly meant for a snake emerging from its hole (?); Agathe has numeral ^f). Thesame explanation might well be given of the Zeus-like Theos Megas at Odessos in Thrace,. Fig. 952.

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