CLAS 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Dyeus, Stoicism, Signifying Monkey
8 Feb 2018
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Dyeus - latin deus and juppiter, greek theos and zeus. Major attributes: adult and bearded, lightning bolt, eagle, throne, bull. Panhellenic zeus (zeus of homer): executive leader of the gods, justice, rain and lightning. Local manifestations of zeus: assemblies (at athens), oaths (horkios), hospitality (xenios), prophesy (at dodona), wolf-god (in arcadia), baby-god (on crete), bull-god (at. Athena (w/ metis - name means knowledge") God of war - berserk, ready to fight. Almost the father of achilles, zeus wanted to get w/ thetis, but had to restrain himself bc the child would overthrow him. Zeus became a swan to court leda. Zeus became a shower of gold to impregnate danae. We are naive to think that gods would look like humans, and not like horses, or flowers, or nothing at all. Myth offers a series of symbols to be decoded: e. g zeus is air (ether) Unpack the myth of zeus, metis and athena.
