According to legend, the gods of the ancient Greeks lived in the clouds on the top of Mount Olympus. Zeus, the father of the gods, carried a bolt of lightning in his hand and ruled like an earthly king. Apollo was the sun god and his beams were golden arrows; he shielded the flocks...
Here was an ever-present sign of the ruin men brought upon their souls. Three o'clock struck, and four, and the half-hour rang its double chime, but Dorian Gray did not stir. He was trying to gather up the scarlet threads of life and to weave them into a pattern; to find...
The Olympians, a splendid race of gods, representing the highest human ideals, arrived with the Greeks; but for the sake of safety, or of old association, the primitive worship was retained and blended with the new. In the extreme case of human sacrifice, it was retained in the form of ...
Gedrosians learned to chant the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides.33 And although Socrates, when tried on the charge of introducing foreign deities,34 lost his cause to the informers who infested Athens, yet through Alexander Bactria and the Caucasus learned to revere the gods of the Greeks....
Thousands of years ago, the Greeks believed in many gods and goddesses who lived high on Mt.Olympus. Modern Greeks no longer believe in them. The gods are simply fictional characters in legends.Zeus was the king of the gods. Since he ruled the sky, he 61 t thunder, lightning and all ...
Gods and Heroes of the Greeks 《Gods and Heroes of the Greeks》是University of Massachusetts Press出版的图书，作者是Apollodorus，Michael Simpson，Leonard Baskin
Zeus' neutrality is expressed by Willcock, as he states "Zeus, king of the gods, is impartial but knows that Troy is in doom". Zeus remains neutral throughout the play by coming to the aid of both the Greeks and the Trojans whenever he deems it necessary. Zeus assists the Greeks ...
【题目】Ancient Greek gods and goddessesReligion(宗教) was very important to the ancient Greeks.In their mind, religion made their lives better,and the gods and goddesses would take care of them after they died.T he Greeks believed in many gods and goddesses. T hesegods and goddesses ...
The Greeks believed Aphrodite was created from the foam of the sea on the shores of Paphos, Cyprus. She was considered the most beautiful of the gods, and later married Hephaestus, god of metalwork and fire. Her sacred animal was the dove. Hades Hades was Zeus and Poseidon’s elder ...