Word: zeus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bull-roaring rites of Knossos were a memory, and the hell-for-leather chariot cavalry and iron-pointed spears of the savage Dorians (the last great wave of northern barbarians to inundate Greece) had driven the Goddess into hiding. Their god, and Homer's, was her rebellious son, Zeus-who later got an ancestry...
...Zeus's Olympian family, crudely hacked out of oak and olive trunks, took possession of every sacred grove during the next four dark centuries (1100 B.C.-700 B.C.). But not until the Dorians began cutting down their oaks to build ships did marble and bronze bring immortality to their gods...
That once-charming head; now Zeus had let his enemies
...others." He saves his sharpest slings for Superman's female counterpart, a four-year-old character named Wonder Woman, who is described by her creator as "the girl from Paradise Isle, beautiful as Aphrodite, wise as Athena, stronger than Hercules and swifter than Mercury." Wonder Woman swears "By Zeus!" and regularly prays to Aphrodite-which Ong says is Hitlerite paganism...
...special talent and gift of the gods. The only woman aboard was a princess: Atalanta of Calydon, the virgin huntress, who could outrun any man in Greece. Argus, who built the Argo, was the world's finest shipwright. Castor and Pollux, sons of Leda and the swan (Zeus), were champion prizefighters. Nauplius was an unrivaled navigator (naturally: his father was Poseidon, the sea god). Orpheus could make sticks & stones dance when he played his lyre. Hercules of Tiryns was the strongest man in the world; he would have captained the Argonauts were it not that in moments of insanity...