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Zeus Olympios (Ολύμπιος): Zeus as king of the gods and patron of the Panhellenic Games at Olympia; Zeus Panhellenios ("Zeus of All the Greeks"): worshipped at Aeacus's temple on Aegina; Zeus Xenios (Ξένιος), Philoxenon, or Hospites: Zeus as the patron of hospitality and guests, avenger of wrongs done to strangers; A bust of Zeus.
Lugal-e, a late-third-millennium BC Sumerian poem, tells the story of the battle between the Mesopotamian hero-god Ninurta and the terrible monster Asag. [144] Like Typhon, Asag was a monstrous hissing offspring of Earth , who grew mighty and challenged the rule of Ninurta, who like Zeus, was a storm-god employing winds and floods as weapons ...
Hesiod's Theogony, (c. 700 BCE) which could be considered the "standard" creation myth of Greek mythology, [1] tells the story of the genesis of the gods. After invoking the Muses (II.1–116), Hesiod says the world began with the spontaneous generation of four beings: first arose Chaos (Chasm); then came Gaia (the Earth), "the ever-sure foundation of all"; "dim" Tartarus (the Underworld), in ...
At least Lachy has the decency to return Zeus watch — how kind! — while ratting out Dionysus in the process. Riddy and Orpheus make their way back to Earth, but before they get there, Riddy ...
Zeus killed Campe and released these imprisoned giants to aid in his conflict with the Titans. The gods of Olympus eventually triumphed. Cronus and many of the other Titans were banished to Tartarus, though Prometheus, Epimetheus, and female Titans such as Metis were spared. Other gods could be sentenced to Tartarus as well.
Zeus (Greek) / Jupiter (Roman) – a major antagonist in the play, Zeus is introduced in the exposition as "god of flies and death", although he is traditionally associated with sky, lightning, thunder, law, order, and justice. Orestes (Philebus) – the play's major protagonist, he is the brother of Electra and the son of Agamemnon.
A modern reconstruction of the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, topic of the oration.. The Olympic Oration or On Man's First Conception of God (Ancient Greek: Ὀλυμπικὸς ἢ περὶ τῆς πρώτης τοῦ θεοῦ ἐννοίας, romanized: Olympikos ē peri tēs protēs tou theou ennoias, Oration 12 in modern corpora) is a speech delivered by Dio Chrysostom at the Olympic games ...
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