Classical Mythology

THE TWELVE OLYMPIANS: ZEUS, HERA, AND THEIR CHILDREN 119 things: the character of Hephaestus; his closeness to his mother Hera; ...

120 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS down in silence, and obey what I say; for now all the gods in Olympus will be of no avail wh ...

THE TWELVE OLYMPIANS: ZEUS, HERA, AND THEIR CHILDREN 121 f He took up the lyre and began to sing beautifully of the love of Ares ...

122 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS deeds do not prosper; the slow overtakes the swift, since now Hephaestus who is slow and lam ...

THE TWELVE OLYMPIANS: ZEUS, HERA, AND THEIR CHILDREN 123 ...

(^124) THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS In character Ares is generally depicted as a kind of divine swashbuckler. He is not highl ...

THE TWELVE OLYMPIANS: ZEUS, HERA, AND THEIR CHILDREN 125 gives birth to the Muses, the patronesses of literature and the arts; t ...

(^126) THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS and controls all, but others portray a universe in which even the great and pow- erful Ze ...

THE TWELVE OLYMPIANS: ZEUS, HERA, AND THEIR CHILDREN 127 the Roman Quintilian wrote, "its beauty added something even to the tra ...

CHAPTER 6 THE NATURE OF THE GODS ANTHROPOMORPHISM By now the nature of the anthropomorphic conception of deity that evolved amon ...

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. ...

THE NATURE OF THE GODS 135 ...

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 ...