Word: zeus
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Goodwin's lecture last night was on Mycenae and Tiryns. Mycenae was founded by a son of Zeus, and at the time of Agamemnon its glory was at its height. The two Homeric poems contain the best descriptions of Mycenae. The renowned luxury of Menelaus and Helen in Sparta did not vie with the luxury of Mycenae. In some tombs opened at Mycenae by Dr. Schlieman in 1876, were found numerous coins and gold and silver vessels of great value. One tomb containing the body of a man which had become a fossil, contained gold plate and coins which...
...great lack of method. Questions as to prerogatives of the divinities never arose; exact limits were not set to the powers of any god. There is never any quarrel as to which god is the chief one, the great point is that all are superior to man. Zeus was their father, he reigned but he did not rule; Apollo, "his premier," was the practical head. His home was Delphi, where he was worshipped side by side with Dionysus. His character was poetic; he was the most Greek of Greek divinities. His tolerance was great, as is clearly shown...
Jupiter was identified with the Greek god Zeus. He was the lightning god and various other functions were grouped around this one. The fear of lightning was very great among the Romans, and they held a lightning stroke to be a serious mark of the god's anger To appease it the necessary expiation was originally human sacrifices...
...find the Homeric poems recited by the rhapsodist, or professional reciter, and not by men who were themselves poets. They spread the study of Homer over all Greece, and in all the leading cities the rhapsodists gathered. As they commenced a recitation, they would invoke Zeus with the words, "Beginning with praise of Thee, would I celebrate deeds of men." Prizes were offered to the rhapsodist who best recited, and often the reward of such a competition was a tripod. But far above these mere reciters were the old minstrels who combined the orator or declaimer and the poet...