CLASS 310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Atreus, Pediment, Lapiths
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After zeus becomes king of olympus there"s a lottery b/w the victors of the titanomachy that determines who will be in charge of which regions of the universe. Zeus rules over the olympians & is the strongest of them. Hades the underworld where he is lonely at first, but then allowed to marry his niece. Hades is not considered an olympian, however, because he lives in the underworld (aka not geographically a part of olympian) and b/c in reference to. Egyptian mythologies, anything dealing with the underworld was not considered reputable. As god of sky zeus is in charge of thunder & lightning the counterpart to poseidon"s floods & earthquakes. Zeus is known for his thunderbolt & eagle. Attributes is stronger than all the olympians combined. Aegis goat skin, represented as a shield with snakes from medusa & the skin go the goat amalthea (who raised him on crete)
