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Sentence Examples Born of a mortal woman and the god Zeus, the young god Dionysus is outraged at the Theban royal family's refusal to accept his heritage. The Cyclopes gave Zeus the thunderbolt and Hades a helmet, gave Poseidon his trident. Zeus used a thunderbolt to stop the rampage and the horses plunged into the sea. This way, so Zeus believed, the king of the Olympians could deny the charge of infidelity leveled at him by his spiteful and jealous wife, Hera. They survived the war between the Titans and the Olympians and became servants of Zeus. The Temple of Zeus itself was funded from a military campaign, and its entablature was adorned with Spartan military trophies. One day, a shower of gold fell through the opening and Zeus impregnated her with a son who would be named Perseus. Man was subject to all the gods, but Zeus reigned supreme over gods and men, although not quite monotheistically. Bind him fast or by Zeus, I shall see you rotting in gaol alongside this upstart vagabond! Who has thought to listen to the heart and mind of the Kore's Father, Zeus King of the Olympians? The three Fates, or Moirai, were the offspring of Zeus and the Titan Themis. With Zeus turned away from the battle, Poseidon inspires Ajax and Idomeneus to fight more fiercely. The origin of the word comes from the name of a young boy seduced by Zeus to be his cup-bearer and lover. In her current incarnation she is a demigoddess, the daughter of Zeus and Queen Hippolyta. It's worthy of note that the oak tree, sacred to Zeus, is the very tree which is most susceptible to be struck by lightning. She is best known as the wife of Zeus, but when Hera is unveiled she becomes a great and ancient mother goddess, much beloved by her people. Bosses used for the attachment of plumb lines survive on the pedimental sculpture and reliefs of the temple of Zeus at Olympia. At death the infernal Zeus metamorphosed her into a white poplar, which was ultimately removed into Elysium. Stern pronouncements are hurled down like thunderbolts from Zeus, and, like Zeus, their authors are totally unaccountable to mere human beings. Then my feet no longer rest on earth, but standing by Zeus himself I take my fill of ambrosia, the divine dish. Show More Sentences Only subsequently did it go back to Europa, the mythical princess abducted by Zeus. Zeus Creative is charged with repackaging the physical brand of the theatre. For this affront, Prometheus was punished terribly by Zeus, yet he never repented his act. Zeus freed Odysseus from the nymph Calypso, who held him prisoner on her island, by sending Mercury with an order to Calypso herself. So in one night Zeus shared the bed and love of the neat-ankled daughter of Electyron and fulfilled his desire. Zeus was tested as an antiballistic missile and as an antisatellite weapon. A large black man entered the ring, and towered over Zeus by at least eight inches. A Roman story makes them out to be mortals whom Zeus lofted into the heavens in recognition of their brotherly love. A chryselephantine figure of Zeus sat on a jewel-encrusted throne carrying a small figure of Nike in his left hand, a scepter in his right. Impressions Games can be trusted to make the game look superb and with Zeus, they did just that. Fey, whose name and image hardly suggest box-office prowess, is bigger than Zeus. Prometheus assures her that a sea, the Ionian, will be named after her and that she will have a son with Zeus when she is returned to a human being. But, as Brian Krebs reported, Zeus was also used to send out bogus emails to. Dionysus, cider-sodden, dances for change in the subway and gets periodically arrested for indecent exposure, a shadow of himself Zeus was ushered into a retirement home. So that makes 6.8 billion examples of perfection, 6.8 billion sparks of Zeus. Finally, just 7 kilometres away at the far end of the bay stood the mighty Greek temple to Hera, queen of the Olympian gods, sister and jealous wife of Zeus. In later Greek myth Hecate is presented as the daughter of Hera and Zeus. Zeus observes that Achilles is fasting and reprimands Athena. The enraged Zeus sent a thunderbolt hurtling down to shatter the cliff, and with blasts of wind, opened an abyss-dungeon deep within the trembling earth. Characteristically, he depicts the mythic heroine at the very moment of her ravishment, when she is taken by Zeus, transformed into a shower of gold coins. Show More Sentences For example, Zeus Greek mythology is dominated by Kronos Marduk in Babylon mythology. Known from the myth in which Zeus seduces her in the guise of a white bull, Europa has also been referred to in relation to the present Union. Oceanus himself follows on a hippogriff, and counsels Prometheus to submit to Zeus. Thus, Jupiter was perceived to be the same deity as Zeus, Mars became associated with Ares, and Neptune with Poseidon. The Ancient Olympic Games were religious and athletic festivals held every four years at the sanctuary of Zeus in Olympia, Greece. The myth continues that after Heracles completed his twelve labours, he built the Olympic Stadium as an honour to Zeus. The Target Tracking Radar Station was a Nike Zeus test facility for tracking reentry vehicles from Cape Canaveral missile launches. The representations of Christ as the Almighty Lord on his judgment throne owed something to pictures of Zeus. It is possible that the Greeks did not bring with them other gods except Zeus, Eos, and the Dioskouroi. In most accounts he is swallowed by Cronus at birth but later saved, with his other brothers and sisters, by Zeus. The sanctuary of Tropaean Zeus was made by the Dorians after they had conquered the Amyclaeans and the rest of the Achaeans. In Greek Mythology, the deadly monster Typhon was trapped under the mountain by Zeus, the god of the sky. According to Greek Mythology, The Diktaean Cave at Mount Dikti was the birthplace of the god Zeus. The ancient Greek god Zeus launched a lightning bolt at a giant lizard that was threatening Crete. Europa and Zeus made love at Gortys and conceived the kings of Crete, Rhadamanthys, Sarpedon, and Minos. Other early writers imply that humanity was born out of the malevolent blood shed by the Titans in their war against Zeus. Rhea hated this and tricked him by hiding Zeus and wrapping a stone in a baby's blanket, which Cronus ate. Among the principal Greek gods were the Olympians, residing on Mount Olympus under the eye of Zeus. Traditionally, Heracles was the son of Zeus and Alcmene, granddaughter of Perseus. How fate is set is unknown, but it is told by the Fates and by Zeus through sending omens to seers such as Calchas. Show More Sentences In deciding between losing a son or abiding fate, Zeus, King of the Gods, allows it. This is important to note because the thunder came from Zeus, the king of the gods. This direct relationship between Zeus and Odysseus represents the kingship of Odysseus. Yamm and Baal, the storm god of Ugaritic myth and often associated with Zeus, have an epic battle for power over the universe. The word music derives from the name of the Muses, the daughters of Zeus who were patron goddesses of the arts. For example, the composition of Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne is partly borrowed from the Statue of Zeus at Olympia. Zeus injured Typhon with a thunder bolt and Typhon's blood fell on the mountains, from which they got their name. The most important of all ancient Greek gods was Zeus, the king of the gods, who was married to Hera, who was also Zeus's sister. This pairing may also be further attested in an Old English ploughing prayer and in the Greek pairings of Ouranos and Gaia and Zeus and Demeter. Olympias always insisted to him that he was the son of Zeus, a theory apparently confirmed to him by the oracle of Amun at Siwa. Prometheus, in later versions of Greek mythology, was the Titan who created mankind at the behest of Zeus. Prometheus, being the creator, took back the fire from Zeus to give to man. Eleven days before the start of the Games, a flaming torch is ignited by the sun in Olympia at the ruins of the ancient Temple of Zeus. Now you come to do the same thing with the ash tree of Nemesis, called Adrastea, the nymph who nourished Zeus in a cave on this very mountain. For example, Zeus can be coded to only log the log-in details for a certain specific list of Web sites. According to the Zeus Development Corporation, more than 60 projects are in development around the world. Minos, her son by Zeus, became ruler of Crete, the earliest of thalassocracies. The laughter of Zeus, relishing his own humor, marks a transition to the Theomachy or war of the gods. These nomadic hunter tribes brought with them patrifocal mythology that included the worship of a sky god, Zeus. The maddening nature of the punishment was reserved for Sisyphus due to his hubristic belief that his cleverness surpassed that of Zeus himself. Show More Sentences In the original text Theogony by Hesiod, Metis was the first wife of Zeus before he became the king of all gods. The border is decorated with mythological scenes, one in each corner, drawn by the painter Nicolaes Berchem, showing Zeus, Neptune, Persephone and Demeter. According to Greek mythology, the Thracian king Haemus was turned into a mountain by Zeus as a punishment and the mountain has remained with his name. The main Greek gods were the twelve Olympians, Zeus, his wife Hera, Poseidon, Ares, Hermes, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Demeter, and Dionysus. For example, in Phoenicia, the tripartite division between Baal, Mot and Yam seems to have influenced the Greek division between Zeus, Hades and Poseidon. The Sun God insisted that Zeus punish the men for this sacrilege. Fate implies the primeval, tripartite division of the world that Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades effected in deposing their father, Cronus, for its dominion. Achilles asks his mother to ask Zeus to bring the Greeks to the breaking point by the Trojans, so Agamemnon will realize how much the Greeks need Achilles. In most accounts, it was Zeus, king of the Olympians, who commissioned the Titan Prometheus and the Olympian god of fire Hephaistos to create man. In such text, Zeus does not simply set upon his father violently. The maddening nature of the punishment was reserved for King Sisyphus due to his hubristic belief that his cleverness surpassed that of Zeus himself. The gods Zeus and Jupiter are an example of this mythological overlap. Zeus then challenged Cronus to war for the kingship of the gods. These races or ages are separate creations of the gods, the Golden Age belonging to the reign of Cronos, the subsequent races to the creation of Zeus. At some point in his reign, Zeus decides to give up the throne in favor of the infant Dionysus, who like the infant Zeus, is guarded by the Kouretes. In Greek mythology, the story of Leda and the Swan recounts that Helen of Troy was conceived in a union of Zeus disguised as a swan and Leda, Queen of Sparta. One example is the story of the youthful Adonis, who is killed by a boar and is permitted by Zeus to depart from Hades only during the spring and summer period. Poseidon and Apollo, having offended Zeus by their rebellion in Hera's scheme, were temporarily stripped of their divine authority and sent to serve King Laomedon of Troy. According to a single reference in the Iliad, when the world was divided by lot in three, Zeus received the sky, Hades the underworld and Poseidon the sea. However, in some versions of the story, he, like his brother Zeus, did not share the fate of his other brother and sisters who were eaten by Cronus. Show More Sentences In any case, the early importance of Poseidon can still be glimpsed in Homer's Odyssey, where Poseidon rather than Zeus is the major mover of events. Excavations at the Temple of Zeus, Olympia since 1829 have revealed the largest group of remains, from about 460, of which many are in the Louvre. Cult images are common in many cultures, though they are often not the colossal statues of deities which characterized ancient Greek art, like the Statue of Zeus at Olympia. In ancient Greece, the city of Athens had Athena, Sparta had Ares, Delphi had Apollo and Artemis, Olympia had Zeus, Corinth had Poseidon and Thebes had Demeter. In Greek mythology, the oak is the tree sacred to Zeus, king of the gods. The truce did allow those religious pilgrims who were travelling to Olympia to pass through warring territories unmolested because they were protected by Zeus. If Hollywood is Mount Olympus, Lew Wasserman is Zeus,'' says Jack Valenti, ex-head of the Motion Picture Association of America, interviewed in Avrich's film. While at Merton College,Oxford,in 1953, Sir Jeremy had visited the slopes of Mount Parnassos,Greek home of the so-calledMuses, who were the nine daughters of the god Zeus. However, it more closely resembles the altar of Zeus at Pergamum, or even of the Sullan-era Fortuna Primigenia sanctuary at Praeneste, but with truncated wings. Examples from Classical Literature You just didn't go up to the Tower of Zeus looking like a back-street brawler. Upon this he pushed on into Olympian territory and did sacrifice to Olympian Zeus. Zeus grew up, and by some means, suggested by Gaea, compelled Zeus to disgorge all his offspring. And the vagrant we saw just now, on whom you bestowed a golden shower of remembrance as Father Zeus endowed the fair Danae? Cadmus and his wife Harmonia were by Zeus converted into serpents and removed to Elysium. I come because it was you whom Zeus sent to watch over Cadmus and Harmonia when their dread and comfortable change came over them. She had given to Zeus a daughter, Persephone, before his marriage with Hera. Through an Incarnation alone can the purposes of Zeus in creation be fully and comprehensibly revealed to man. There he made the gold and ivory statue of Zeus that you shall see in Zeus's temple. He would not be so humorous about Zeus, nor fall into an ignoratio elenchi. Let us trust the counselings of great Zeus who holds sway over gods and men. Drunkenness is not associated with Zeus, or unchastity with Hera or Athene. Cronus, the head of the dynasty which preceded that of Zeus, is described as the son of Rhea, but nothing is said of his father. The stone which Cronus swallowed in mistake for Zeus was honoured at Delphi, and kept warm with wool wrappings. Zeus in his sleep became, by the earth, father of Attes, VA being both male and female in his nature. Festivals in honour of Zeus, because he delivered men from misfortunes and dangers. But the mighty moirai, whose word even Zeus himself may not turn aside, had fixed the doom of Meleagros. She was transformed into a bear as a penalty for having borne to Zeus a son, Arcas, the ancestor of the Arcadians. It was thus with the most primitive god of Greek mythology, Zeus of Dodona. His mother, Semele, desired to see Zeus in all his glory, as he appeared when he made love to Hera. Show More Sentences Like the Phidian Zeus his proportions are all the more majestic for the distance which rounds over any venial defect. Clearly when he does what the man is said to do in the tale of the Arcadian temple of Lycaean Zeus. And at dawn the etesian winds blew strongly, which by the command of Zeus blow over every land equally. This euhemerism seems an exceedingly inadequate explanation of the origin of Zeus. Prometheus had warned his brother Epimetheus not to accept gifts from Zeus, but he did not heed this advice and accepted Pandora as his bride. Among the Olympic deities represented, Zeus takes a prominent part. But he knew not at all the intent of Zeus who holds the aegis. The best of his works is the Olympian Zeus, made at Elis after his exile. There Gyes and Cottus and great-souled Obriareus live, trusty warders of Zeus who holds the aegis. For wise Zeus ordained that he should live for three generations of mortal men and not waste away with old age. Zeus then transformed Callisto into a constellation, the bear. In one hand Zeus held the sceptre, and in the other a winged Victory. Ate, the daughter of Zeus and Eris, was a divinity who delighted in evil. Zeus had provided the best answer to those dreams, forrester knew. Alcamenes represented him as a sort of humanized Zeus or Jupiter. Poseidon was the son of Kronos and Rhea, and the brother of Zeus. Leto, pregnant by Zeus, seeks for a place of refuge to be delivered. The Hours were goddesses of the seasons, daughters of Zeus and themis. In the struggle with the titans, Prometheus was on the side of Zeus. By his advice, Zeus banished the titans to the nether-world. Show More Sentences Through him mortal men are famed or un-famed, sung or unsung alike, as great Zeus wills. Hence Ganymede is said 'to pour the wine to Zeus,' though the gods do not drink wine. And Zeus set it fast in the wide-pathed earth at goodly Pytho under the glens of Parnassus, to be a sign thenceforth and a marvel to mortal men. The punishment that Prometheus is inflicted with is even direr and Zeus condemns him to be nailed to a rock in Caucasus. The columns and walls of the grand old temple of Zeus fell in a heap. And she conceived and bare Hecate whom Zeus the son of Cronos honoured above all. After Prometheus stole tire and returned it to mortals, Zeus ordered Hephaestus to create the first woman. According to one version of the myth of creation, Zeus obliges Prometheus and his brother, Epimetheus to create the mortal race. Thus she became a bear and gave birth to a son called Arcas.The story goes that he is Arcas the son of Callisto and Zeus, and he lived in the country about Lycaeum. And her Heracles, the son of Zeus, of the house of Amphitryon, together with warlike Iolaus, destroyed with the unpitying sword through the plans of Athene the spoil-driver. This shield the valiant son of Zeus wielded masterly, and leaped upon his horse-chariot like the lightning of his father Zeus who holds the aegis, moving lithely. She was gifted to Prometheus' brother, Epimetheus, and inadvertently unleashed evils from a Greek pithos, or storage jar, that was a wedding present from Zeus. Bacchus was the god of wine, said to have been born of a union between Zeus and the human, Semele and raised on Mount Nysa in the company of nymphs and satyrs. Here are tales of Zeus, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon, Hephaestus, Demeter, Apollo, Persephone, Athena, Artemis, Aphrodite, Hermes, hades, Ares, and Dionysus. Legend has it that when Prometheus stole fire from heaven, Zeus took vengeance by creating the first woman, Pandora, and presenting her to Epimetheus, Prometheus' brother. And again Zeus, who is the dispenser of good and evil to us. Find more words! 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