Classical Mythology

ZEUS' RISE TO POWER: THE CREATION OF MORTALS 99 Like Hesiod, the Sumerian, Babylonian, and Akkadian poets do not narrate a myth ...

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(^102) THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS hasis, the gods complain of the hard labor that they must perform for Enlil and threaten ...

ZEUS' RISE TO POWER: THE CREATION OF MORTALS 103 lized Gilgamesh. After sexual intercourse with a harlot, Enkidu is depleted of ...

104 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS a Sumerian version, about three times as long, in which Ishtar is called by her Sumerian nam ...

ZEUS' RISE TO POWER: THE CREATION OF MORTALS 105 Dalley, Stephanie. Myths from Mesopotamia. New York: Oxford University Press, 1 ...

106 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Aeschylus has Themis as the mother of Prometheus, sometimes identified as Ge- Themis, to sh ...

ZEUS' RISE TO POWER: THE CREATION OF MORTALS 107 quotation is from p. 10). Useful but brief remarks in Ken Dowden, The Uses of G ...

CHAPTER 5 THE TWELVE OLYMPIANS: ZEUS, HERA, AND THEIR CHILDREN Thus Zeus is established as lord of gods and men. He is supreme, ...

THE TWELVE OLYMPIANS: ZEUS, HERA, AND THEIR CHILDREN 109 Cronus m. Rhea I I I I I I Hestia Hades Poseidon Demeter Hera Zeus Zeus ...

110 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Zeus, Ganymede, and Hestia. Red-figure cup by Oltos, ca. 520 B.c.; height 83 / 4 in., diamet ...

THE TWELVE OLYMPIANS: ZEUS, HERA, AND THEIR CHILDREN 111 must face the shrewish harangues of his wife, Hera, and pay at least in ...

(^112) THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Hera. Roman copy of a Greek bronze of ca. 470^60 B.C.; marble, height 76 in. Known as the ...

THE TWELVE OLYMPIANS: ZEUS, HERA, AND THEIR CHILDREN 113 around themselves a beautiful golden cloud from which the glistening dr ...

114 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS also appears in the metopes of the Parthenon. The central figure in the pediment is another ...

THE TWELVE OLYMPIANS: ZEUS, HERA, AND THEIR CHILDREN 115 t t 100 ' feet 1 30 ' meters Figure 5.2. Plan of the Temple of Zeus at ...

116 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS (5. 202-217), translated in its entirety in Chapter 9, tells how Zeus carried off Ganymede, ...

THE TWELVE OLYMPIANS: ZEUS, HERA, AND THEIR CHILDREN 117 like the gods. When Tros heard this message from Zeus, he no longer con ...

(^118) THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS him drunk and brought him back to Olympus triumphantly. On vases this scene is variously ...