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## ARCHAEOLOGICAL NOTES 107 the man-eating Stymphalian Birds are a mythical expression for the supposed pestilential vapors exhaled by the marshes. The water of the lake is beautifully clear but nevertheless the inhabitants of the valley are said to suffer much from fever. This is not strange, since the plain immediately to the east of the lake is swampy." The representations on our vase depict both hero and deity, Herakles on his work of mercy and Artemis "the goddess of wild Nature" appeased. The jug could have been dedicated to one of the numerous cults of Artemis. It is functionally sound in its design and serviceable when used as a dispenser of liquid; when, however, at rest with the handle side displayed (fig. 3)-it is an ikon in the full Byzantine sense of the word, the epiphany of Artemis, mistress of man and beast, in whose "cult occur orgiastic dances and the sacred bough"14-invisibly visible participant and "foredancer" in her own cult dance.15 J.R.A. TwELE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER 14 M.P. Nilsson, A History of Greek Religion, tr. F. Fieldsen (Oxford 1925) 28, and W.F. Otto, Die Gotter Griechenlands (Frankfurt/Main 1947) 81-91, esp. 82. 15 An hypothesis which would offer a s
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- Author
- Samuel Eddy
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1977
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)