CLA204H1 Lecture : Zeus and Hara
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Xenia (protector of xenia; hospitality sacred respect for guests and hosts) Called the king and father of gods and men. Loved many women and had many children. Division of cosmos by lot: sky and earth; sea; underworld. Zeus seduced io while she was a priestess of hera. When hera discovered them, zeus touched the girl, changed her into a white cow, and swore that he had no sex with her. For this reason, says hesiod, oaths made in love do . Danae was the daughter of acrisius and aganippe. A prophecy about her said that the child she bore would kill acrisius, and acrisius, fearing this, shut her in a stone-walled prison. But jove (zeus), changing into a shower of gold, lay with danae, and from this embrace perseus was born. Because of her sin her father shut her up in a chest with perseus and cast it into the sea.
