Classical Mythology

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MYTHS OF CREATION 71 for power against his ruthless father. The Jungian archetype of the holy mar- riage that is enacted three t ...

72 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS that he got married. After all, misanthrope that he is, Hesiod still recommends a good marria ...

MYTHS OF CREATION 73 ing a branch, to me they gave a staff of laurel, a wondrous thing, and into me they breathed a divine voice ...

74 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS him as he dispenses justice with fair impartiality; and soon speaking with con- fidence and k ...

MYTHS OF CREATION 75 See the bibliography for Iconography and Religion, p. 34. This matriarchal concept belongs to both the mat ...

CHAPTER 4 ZEUS' RISE TO POWER: THE CREATION OF MORTALS THE TITANOMACHY: ZEUS DEFEATS HIS FATHER, CRONUS When Zeus had grown to m ...

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78 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS and the bolts with flashes and thunder flew in succession from his stout hand with a dense wh ...

ZEUS' RISE TO POWER: THE CREATION OF MORTALS 79 THE GIGANTOMACHY: ZEUS DEFEATS THE GIANTS AND TYPHOEUS Another threat Zeus had t ...

80 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS mountain where he was struck down. A great part of vast earth was burned by the immense confl ...

ZEUS' RISE TO POWER: THE CREATION OF MORTALS 81 all.^5 While other animals look down to the ground, man was given a lofty vis- a ...

82 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS THE AGE OF BRONZE Father Zeus made another race of mortal humans, the third, of bronze and no ...

ZEUS' RISE TO POWER: THE CREATION OF MORTALS 83 among the company of the gods. For mortals sorry griefs will be left and there w ...

84 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Atlas and Prometheus. Laconian black-figure cup, ca. 560 B.c. The two Titans endure the punis ...

ZEUS' RISE TO POWER: THE CREATION OF MORTALS 85 the portions!" Thus Zeus whose wisdom is immortal spoke in derision. Wily Promet ...

86 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS gether the toil of others into their own belly. Thus in the same way high- thundering Zeus ma ...

ZEUS' RISE TO POWER: THE CREATION OF MORTALS 87 named this woman Pandora, because all who have their homes on Olympus gave her a ...

88 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS The theme of the first woman as the bringer of evil is particularly fraught with social, poli ...