Word: zeus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon entering the U. S., some three months ago, to visit his sick wife Count Michael Karolyi, first President of the 1918-19 Hungarian Republic, was bound to rocks of silence by U. S. pseudo-Zeus, Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes (TIME, Mar. 2, Mar. 9, CABINET...
From his office in the Palazzo Chigi, Italian Foreign Office, Benito telephoned to the Prefects all over Italy, told them that he would hold them personally responsible for any 'disturbance that might occur. The Fascist Directorate,. hierarchy of the Fascist Party, with Benito interpreting the role of Zeus, ordered peremptorily all Fascist leaders to keep the peace. No disturbances took place...
...Prometheus Unbound. Prometheus, legendary hero, brought fire to mortals and as punishment was chained to Mount Caucasus by Zeus, where an eagle by day devoured his liver, which grew again during the night. Aeschylus, Greek tragic poet, wrote two dramas: 1) Prometheus Bound, telling this story, and 2) Prometheus Unbound, telling of the deliverance of the hero by Hercules after a reconciliation of the former with Zeus. Shelley, in his poem, changes the plot somewhat- makes Prometheus an even more adamantine hero who refuses to bow to Zeus, overthrows him, liberates mankind...
...second point, only because it is true in a figurative sense (here we interject a layman opinion.) Jesus was a very real human being, and for that very reason He is the more wonderful. After all, it would not have been very difficult for a sort of Zeus to take the form of a man and do the things that He did. It is definitely more remarkable that a mere human saw the truth and had the strength to live by it; such, at least, is the burden of Mr. Hartt's thesis...
Jesus No Earthly Zeus...