Word: zeus
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...austere silver temple that looks like the court of Krypton, Zeus (Laurence Olivier) plays with clay figurines, brings them to life, sends them through labyrinths of adventures, sentences them to spectacular deaths. Now he is pondering the fate of Perseus (Harry Hamlin), Zeus' son by one of his many extramarital manifestations. Shall Perseus realize his destiny as champion beastslayer and husband of fair Andromeda (Judi Bowker...
...fiery imagination of the Greeks created more elaborate tales about the golden planet. The Greeks called it Cronus, after the evil-tempered son of Earth and Heaven, who married his sister Rhea and devoured five of his own children because he feared them as rivals. Finally, when Zeus, the sixth, was born, Rhea tricked Cronus into swallowing a stone instead. After he was dethroned by Zeus (who became the king of the gods), Cronus went off to rule another kingdom, where he reformed his ways and taught people the secrets of planting. The Romans knew Cronus as Saturn...
...shape of a deer's head, from which he might have drunk; coins that his father had minted in 356 B.C., the year of his birth, commemorating Philip's entering a race horse in the Olympic Games (a sign of acceptance by the Greeks). Heads, Zeus; tails, a jockey. Alexander might have handled those coins...
...escaping from the Great Depression, sleeping on box cars, eating from cans, living like a tent peg in a one-ring circus. And then one night the star of Bethlehem Steel leads him to the private game reserve of one queer millionaire, autobody magnate F. W. Bennett, drawing-room Zeus, master of Loon Lake...
...self-righteous Pentheus denies that Dionysus is the son of Zeus and vows to wipe out his followers in Thebes. Dionysus appears incognito, and a chorus of Asian-women converts hymn the beatific peace of serving the god of joy. Pentheus claps Dionysus in irons. The god miraculously escapes. Despite the politic advice of his sage grandfather Cadmus (Philip Bosco), the blind seer Tiresias (Tom Klunis) and Dionysus' chillingly prophetic warnings, Pentheus speeds to his appointed doom...