Word: cronus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attempt to describe the sources and limits of power in four of its chief manifestations: economic, political, judicial and international. (Pure military power is scanted as mere brute "force.") Berle opens and closes with visits to Zeus, "god of power," who first used it to overthrow his father Cronus and control the Titans, those symbols of chaos -which Berle assumes is the one thing power can't abide. The plot thickens as Zeus gives birth to the world's first intellectual, Pallas Athena, who says of her father, "I never thought he had any brains," and then proceeds...
Graves's short sheaf of stories tells the principal doings of the Olympians from the time Zeus seized power from Cronus (Saturn), son of Mother Earth, to the end of their reign. The author sets this date neatly at A.D. 363, the year in which the last Roman emperor to believe in the Olympians, Julian of Constantinople, was killed in battle. There are a lot of gods to discuss, and the result is that such notable heroes as Achilles and Ajax are ignored, and Odysseus, Paris and Helen are merely mentioned...