Concept
Zeus
Overview
Greek god of the sky and king of the gods
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Possible passages
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Ocean and Tethys were the progeny of Heaven and Earth; and from these sprang Phorcys, Kronos, and Rhea, and ever so many more with them;—and from Kronos and Rhea sprang Zeus, Hera (Jupiter, Juno), and all that we know are called their brethren, together with others still who were their progeny.[287] When therefore all such gods as visibly revolve, and show themselves when they please, were generated, the Artificer…
Plato, The works of Plato
States what Zeus is; the author is tied to Zeus in the knowledge graph.
Nay, Dionysodorus, I said, do not be rough; good words, if you please; in the way of religion I have altars and temples, domestic and ancestral, and all that other Athenians have. And have not other Athenians, he said, an ancestral Zeus? That name, I said, is not to be found among the Ionians, whether colonists or citizens of Athens; an ancestral Apollo there is, who is the father of Ion, and a family Zeus, and a…
Plato, Euthydemus
Names Zeus several times; states what Zeus is.
Then there would have been rout among the men of Troy, and they would have been pent up in the city, as sheep in a fold, but that Zeus hurled a blazing thunderbolt. Right before the chariot of Diomed did it fall; and the horses crouched in fear, and Nestor let fall the reins from his hands, for he was sore afraid, and cried aloud:-- "Son of Tydeus, turn thy horses to flight; seest thou that Zeus is not with thee?…
Alfred John Church, The story of the Iliad
States what Zeus is; names Zeus several times.
Philosophers who discussed Zeus
- Aristophanes
- Anaximander
- Hesiod
- Heraclitus
- Gemistos Plethon
- Lucian
- Cleanthes
- Xenocrates
- Parmenides
- Chrysippus
- Crates of Thebes
- Epimenides
- Empedocles
- Gorgias
- Euhemerus
- Anaxarchus
Related ideas
- Eusebius
- Aphrodite
- Athena
- Greek language
- Galen
- Harvard University Press
- Polis
- Lampsacus
- Classical Athens
- Herodotus
- Homer
- Hesiod
- Hero
- Heracles
- Orphism
- Ancient Greek
- Lucian
- Athenaeus
- Mount Etna
- Louvre
- Latin
- Sibyl
- Lydia
- Lactantius
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Absurdism.