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 284 The European Sky-god.

assigned to the Lernaean Hydra by Greek authors varies from ten thousand down to one : Greek artists were content with from twelve to thrce.^^"- Geryones w^as regularly three-bodied or at least three-headed,^'^ in which peculiarity his hound Orthros sometimes resembled him.^^ (1^) A second well-marked tendency of Greek religious art in its early stages w^as towards the representation of divine power by means of a double or Janiform head. The Lacedae- monians had a cultus-statue of Apollo with four ears and four hands^'*^ ; and small bronze figures with several arms holding a bow, &c., have actually been found on Greek soil.-"^ On a fine stamnos in the Berlin collection the wind- god Boreas has a Janiform head.^"*^ Coins of Tenedos show a bearded and a beardless profile of Dionysus joined together in the same way^^° : coins of Thasos, a double-faced Satyr.''"^ Hermes, whose statue by Telesarchides in the Ceramicus had four heads,^^ was represented in the Attic deme Ankyle

'■" lb., i., 2769.

•« lb., i., 1630 ff.

•« lb., iii., 1218.

'■" Zenob., i. 54, quotes the following explanation of the proverb uKove rov Ta Tiffaapa wra e'xovToc : " Others say that the proverb bids men hearken to them that speak truly. None is less likely to lie than Apollo, whose statue the Lacedsemonians erected having four hands and four ears, as Sosibius declares, because he appeared in that guise to those who fought at Amyclae." Similar statements occur in Diog., 2. 5, and Apostol., I. 93. Cp. Hesych. s.v. KovpiSiov; " The Laconians give the name KovpiSioj> to their four-handed Apollo," s.z>. KvvaKiag: " Kynaldas, straps from the hide of the ox sacrificed to four-handed Apollo, which are given as prizes," Liban., i., 340, 5 Reiske oiffTrep e'J 6fia\ov TiTTapiq aTO(x)V (TvZvyiai kuO' tKacrrov r/ziyyua tov ovpavov rtravrai ' olov iv ' AiroWiDVog rsTpax^ipov dydXpari.

148 Furtwiingler in Roscher, Lex., i., 449, 53 ff.

"^ Annali deW Instit., i860, xxxii., pis. L. M. See M. Mayer, Die Giganten u. Titanen, p. 116, n. 151, and Rapp in Roscher, Lex., i., 80S ff,

'*" P. Gardner, Types of Greek Coins, pi. 10, 43.

'" Brit. Mus. Cat. Gk. Coins, Thrace, p. 221, no. 51 f.

'" Eustath., 1353, 7 f. ; Phot. s.v. 'Epprjc rerpaKs^aXoc, Hesych. s.v. 'Eppijg rpiKsfaXog, S. Reinach, Repertoire de la Statuairc, ii., 172, 2, 3.