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  2. Baucis and Philemon - Wikipedia

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    Baucis and Philemon were an old married couple in the region of Tyana, which Ovid places in Phrygia, and the only ones in their town to welcome disguised gods Zeus and Hermes (in Roman mythology, Jupiter and Mercury respectively), thus embodying the pious exercise of hospitality, the ritualized guest-friendship termed xenia, or theoxenia when a ...

  3. Hermes - Wikipedia

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    Zeus sent Hermes as a teacher to humanity to teach them knowledge of and value of justice and to improve inter-personal relationships ("bonding between mortals"). [144] Considered to have a mastery of rhetorical persuasion and special pleading, the god typically has nocturnal modus operandi. [145]

  4. Xenia (Greek) - Wikipedia

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    Jupiter and Mercurius in the House of Philemon and Baucis (1630–33) by the workshop of Rubens: Zeus and Hermes, testing a village's practice of hospitality, were received only by Baucis and Philemon, who were rewarded while their neighbors were punished. Xenia (Greek: ξενία) is an ancient Greek concept of hospitality.

  5. Twelve Olympians - Wikipedia

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    Fragment of a Hellenistic relief (1st century BC–1st century AD) depicting the twelve Olympians carrying their attributes in procession; from left to right: Hestia (scepter), Hermes (winged cap and staff), Aphrodite (veiled), Ares (helmet and spear), Demeter (scepter and wheat sheaf), Hephaestus (staff), Hera (scepter), Poseidon (trident), Athena (owl and helmet), Zeus (thunderbolt and staff ...

  6. Zeus - Wikipedia

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    Zeus (/ zj uː s /, Ancient Greek: Ζεύς) [a] is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion and mythology, who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus.. Zeus is the child of Cronus and Rhea, the youngest of his siblings to be born, though sometimes reckoned the eldest as the others required disgorging from Cronus's stomach.

  7. Dialogues of the Gods - Wikipedia

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    Zeus asks Hermes if he has heard of the Argive princess Io, to which Hermes responds affirmatively. Zeus explains that due to Hera's jealousy, Io has been transformed into a cow and placed under the strict guard of Argus. Zeus then orders Hermes to descend to Nemea, kill Argus, and lead Io to Egypt, where she will be worshiped as the goddess Isis.

  8. Prometheus Bound - Wikipedia

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    Prometheus's words have reached Zeus, whose messenger, Hermes, appears to urge Prometheus to reveal his secret about the marriage that threatens Zeus. Hermes reveals Zeus' own threats — the earthquake, the fall of the mountain that will bury Prometheus, the eagle that will attack Prometheus's vital organs.

  9. Pederasty in ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    The relationship between Theognis and Kyrnos eludes categorization. Although it was assumed in antiquity that Kyrnos was the poet's erômenos , the poems that are most explicitly erotic are not addressed to him—the poetry [ 74 ] on "the joys and sorrows" of pederasty seem more apt for sharing with a fellow erastês , perhaps in the setting of ...