Greek Name Ζευς Transliteration Zeus Latin Spelling Zeus Translation Jupiter, Jove Zeus with eagle and lightning, Athenian red-figure amphora C5th B.C., Musée du Louvre ZEUS was the King of the Gods and the god of the sky, weather, law and order, destiny and fate, and ...
53 (trans. Godley) (Greek historian C5th B.C.) : "The Greeks recount these kings of the Dorians as far back as Perseus son of Danae - they make no mention of the god [Zeus, the father of Perseus] - and prove these kings to be Greek; for by that time they had come to be cl...
HOMAGY′RIUS (Homagurios), i.e. the god of the assembly or league, a surname of Zeus, under which he was worshipped at Aegium, on the northwestern coast of Peloponnesus, where Agamemnon was believed to have assembled the Greek chiefs, to deliberate on the war against Troy. Under this ...
Transliteration Periphas Latin Spelling Periphas Translation Wide View Over CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTESEAGLE OF ZEUS & THE WAR OF THE TITANSAnacreon, Fragment 505d (from Fulgentius, Mythologies) (trans. Campbell, Vol. Greek Lyric II) (Greek lyric C6th B.C.) : "According to Anakreon (Anacr...