To make this case, Hobbes describes the disobedient as being like "the foolish daughters" in the fable of Pelops. Pelops's father, Tantalus, wanted to make an offering to the Olympians, and so cut Pelops into pieces and made his flesh into a stew, then served it to the gods in ...
For example, in Hesiod’s Theogony, which is about when Zeus defeated his father, Cronus, he says, “Then Zeus did not hold back any longer, but now immediately his heart was filled with strength and he showed clearly all his force.” (Morford and Lenardon 85) He tends to treat ...