CLST 105 Lecture Notes - Cup-Bearer, Eileithyia, Xenophanes
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If eagle is on the right, good things happen. If eagle is on the left, zeus will smite someone. "zeus xenios" zeus as protector of host and guests: upholder of justice. 4: human foibles threatens other gods, boasts, aristocrats justified their power by saying they were descended from gods, especially zeus. They allowed stories of zeus mating with mortals because it allowed them to say this: limited in power. 2: demeter, poseidon, hera, zeus, ares, aphrodite, apollo, artemis, athena, hephaestus, hermes, dionysus, nature of the gods, anthropomorphic human-like, eg. zeus and hera fighting, competing interests between siblings, criticized by xenophanes, monotheism. Idealized: powerful, each had a realm over which they presided. Immortal: nectar drink of the gods, ambrosia food of the gods. She prayed to hera to bless her sons, hera kills them: crises has a huge downfall, attacked cyrus the great, became a slave.
