Classical Mythology
THE NATURE OF THE GODS 129 dition, a deity who desires to do so can take the form of an animal. There is no concrete evidence, h ...
130 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS ZEUS AND MONOTHEISM We have already seen the popular anthropomorphic conception of Zeus as t ...
THE NATURE OF THE GODS 131 He argued against the folly of conceiving deities as human beings and insisted that there is one supr ...
(^132) THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS of the human condition). A chorus in Sophocles' Antigone sings exultantly: "Won- ders are ...
THE NATURE OF THE GODS 133 all the evidence. Homer offered to the Greeks a literary bible of humanism that could on occasion be ...
134 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS and mixes the bad with the good, a human being at one time encounters evil, at another good. ...
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136 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Yet there is no need to retell the story of the Old Testament polytheistically in order to r ...
THE NATURE OF THE GODS 137 solutely necessary that the mother of these boys be brought by chariot to the temple.^4 But the oxen ...
138 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS this is the best. Thus too no one human person is self-sufficient, for he possesses one thin ...
THE NATURE OF THE GODS 139 group of Lydians and all my hunting equipment and hounds, and I shall order them as they go to be mos ...
140 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS This was the nature of his answer to Croesus, and afterward they left equipped with a band o ...
THE NATURE OF THE GODS^141 Croesus, its king, and his other son,"a fine boy except that he could not speak" (1. 85-88): f When t ...
(^142) THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS from the present evil. In tears he called on the god and suddenly out of the clear and ca ...
THE NATURE OF THE GODS 143 Yet there are parts of the myth that perhaps may be true. Despite chrono- logical problems, Solon cou ...
(^144) THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS cidates philosophy. The life of Tellus the Athenian, the happiest of men, reveals the cha ...
THE NATURE OF THE GODS 145 and God Within. The authors do the same for the archetype of the female divinity in Goddess: Myths of ...
146 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS These words of Croesus at first may strike the modern reader as extremely cruel, but he mea ...
CHAPTER 7 POSEIDON, SEA DEITIES, GROUP DIVINITIES, AND MONSTERS Poseidon, best known as the great god of waters in general and o ...
148 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Nereid, by Georges Braque (1882-1963). Incised plaster, 1931-1932; 73% X 51 in. This is part ...
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