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A coin featuring the profile of Hera on one face and Zeus on the other, c. 210 AC. Roman conquerors of the Hellenic East allowed the incorporation of existing Greek mythological figures such as Zeus into their coinage in places like Phrygia, in order to "augment the fame" of the locality, while "creating a stronger civil identity" without "advertising" the imposition of Roman culture.
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In the wake of these really terrible things, we have this comment that really holds up." [7] After The Onion republished the article on February 14, 2018, following the Parkland high school shooting, Jason Roeder, the writer of the original 2014 article, wrote that he "had no idea it would be applied to the high school a mile from [his] house".
[21] [22] Zeus is the only deity in the Olympic pantheon whose name has such a transparent Indo-European etymology. [23] Plato, in his Cratylus, gives a folk etymology of Zeus meaning "cause of life always to all things", because of puns between alternate titles of Zeus (Zen and Dia) with the Greek words for life and "because of". [24]
Zeus however slept with her (in some versions, he deceived her by taking the form of Artemis herself, or perhaps Apollo) and left her pregnant. Artemis as well as Hera were enraged; depending on version, either of the two goddesses transformed Callisto into a bear. Eventually, Zeus transferred Callisto to the stars, as the constellation Ursa Major.
The section of the Iliad that ancient editors called the Dios apate (Ancient Greek: Διός ἀπάτη, the "Deception of Zeus") stands apart from the remainder of Book XIV. In this episode, Hera makes an excuse to leave her divine husband Zeus ; in her deception speech she declares that she wishes to go to Oceanus , "origin of the gods", and ...
Friday the 13th is a famously unlucky date. Even though some people dismiss it, these horrible events happened on this day throughout history.
Reps. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) and Steve Womack (R-Ark.) expressed concern that today’s lawmakers are setting bad examples for the next generation of American leaders, in a Sunday joint interview.