Zeus
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![The Jupiter de Smyrne, discovered in Smyrna in 1680[1]](/wiki/File:Jupiter_Smyrna_Louvre_Ma13.jpg) The Jupiter de Smyrne, discovered in Smyrna in 1680[1] |
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| Keeng o the Gods God o the Sky, Thunner an Lichtning an Law, Order an Juistice |
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| Abode | Munt Olympus |
| Consort | Hera, an ithers |
| Parents | Cronus an Rhea |
| Siblins | Hestia, Hades, Hera, Poseidon and Demeter |
| Childer | Ares, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite,[2] Dionysus, Hebe, Hermes, Heracles, Helen o Troy, Hephaestus, Perseus, Minos, the Muses, the Graces |
In the auncient Greek releegion, Zeus (Auncient Greek: Ζεύς, Zeús; Modren Greek: Δίας, Días) is the "Faither o Gods an men" (πατὴρ ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε, patḕr andrōn te theōn te)[3] who rules the Olympians o Munt Olympus as a faither rules the faimily. He is the god o sky an thunner in Greek meethologie. His Roman coonterpairt is Jupiter, Hindu coonterpairt is Indra an Etruscan coonterpairt is Tinia.
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Name [edit]
The god's name in the nominative is Ζεύς Zeús /zdeús/. It is inflectit as follaes: vocative: Ζεῦ / Zeû; accusative: Δία / Día; genitive: Διός / Diós; dative: Διί / Dií.
The name Zeus is the Greek continuation o *Di̯ēus, the Proto-Indo-European god o the daytime sky, cried *Dyeus ph2tēr an aw ("Sky Father").[4] The god is kent unner this name in the Rigveda (Vedic Sanskrit Dyaus/Dyaus Pita), Laitin (compare Jupiter, frae Iuppiter, derivin frae the Proto-Indo-European vocative *dyeu-ph2tēr[5]), derivin frae the ruit *dyeu- ("tae shine", an in its mony derivatives, "sky, heiven, god").[4] Zeus is the anerly deity in the Olympic pantheon whose name haes such a transparent Indo-European etymologie.[6]
The earliest attestit forms o the name are the Mycenaean Greek di-we an di-wo, written in Linear b syllabic script.[7]
Zeus in meeth [edit]
Consorts an childer [edit]
Divine affspring [edit]
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Semi-divine/mortal affspring [edit]
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1The Greeks variously claimit that the Moires/Fates wur the dochters o Zeus an the Titaness Themis or o primordial beins like Chaos, Nyx, or Ananke.
2The Charites/Graces wur usually considered the dochters o Zeus an Eurynome but they wur said tae be dochters o Dionysus an Aphrodite or of Helios an the naiad Aegle an aw.
3Some accoonts say that Ares, Hebe an Hephaestus wur born parthenogenetically.
4Accordin tae ane version, Athena is said tae be born parthenogenetically.
5Helen wis either the dochter o Leda or Nemesis.
References [edit]
- ↑ The sculpture was presented to Louis XIV as Aesculapius but restored as Zeus, ca. 1686, by Pierre Granier, who added the upraised right arm brandishing the thunderbolt. Marble, middle 2nd century CE. Formerly in the 'Allée Royale', (Tapis Vert) in the Gardens of Versailles, now conserved in the Louvre Museum (official on-line catalog)
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedaphrodite - ↑ Hesiod, Theogony 542 and other sources.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 American Heritage Dictionary: Zeus. Retrieved on 3 Julie 2006. .
- ↑ Online Etymology Dictionary: Jupiter. Retrieved on 3 Julie 2006. .
- ↑ Burkert (1985). Greek Religion.
- ↑ Palaeolexicon, Word study tool of ancient languages
- ↑ Hyginus, Fabulae 155
- ↑ Scholia on Pindar, Olympian Ode 9, 107
- ↑ Stephanus o Byzantium, s. v. Dōdōne, wi a reference tae Acestodorus
Freemit airtins [edit]
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