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"Upon the altar of Zeus Polieus [Urban Zeus] they place barley mixed with wheat and leave it unguarded. The ox, which they keep already prepared for sacrifice, goes to the altar and partakes of the grain. One of the priests they call the ox-slayer."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 1.24.4
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"Zeus, king of the gods, grants you triumph, to kill Kyknos, and to strip away his glorious armour. But another thing I will say to you now, O best of all men. After you have robbed Kyknos of the sweetness of life, you must leave him where he is, and his armour with him, and yourself keep your eye on manslaughtering Ares"
Hesiod, Shield of Heracles
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"Above the theater [Corinth] is a sanctuary of #Zeus surnamed in the Latin tongue Kapetolion [Capitolinus, Of the Capitol], which might be rendered into Greek Koryphaios (Of the Head)."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.4.5
#Jupiter's head crowned with laurel and ivy, sardonyx cameo, Musée du Louvre
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"The surname Homagyrios (the Assembler) was given to #Zeus because in this place Agamemnon assembled the most eminent men in Greece, in order that they might consult together how to make war on the empire of Priamos [of Troy]."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 7.24.2
#Jupiter, Roman bronze figure from Paramythia, 100-199 CE
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"If #Zeus still carried off mortal boys from earth to the sky to be cup bearer of the sweet nectar, an eagle would sooner have borne my lovely Agrippa on his wings to the service of the immortals,
Yes, by yourself I swear it. Son of Kronos, Father of the World, if you look on him you will at once find fault with the Phrygian boy [#Ganymedes]."
Anthologia Graeca, Epigram 12.194
Rome, 1st century BCE
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"#Zeus sacrificed a bull to #Helios and to Ouranos and to Gaia; and in connection with each of the rites there was revealed to him what was the will of the gods in the affair, the omens indicating the victory of the gods."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 5.71.2
#Jupiter of Cuma, second half of 1st century CE, National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy
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"Then #Zeus no longer held back his might; but straight his heart was filled with fury and he showed forth all his strength. From Heaven and from Olympos he came forthwith, hurling his lightning: the bold flew thick and fast from his strong hand."
Hesiod, Theogony
#Jupiter, Roman bronze statuette, 1st century CE, Museu Episcopal de Vic
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"To Tros in turn there were born 3 sons unfaulted, Ilos, Assarakos, and godlike Ganymede who was the loveliest born of the race of mortals, and therefore the gods caught him away to themselves to be Zeus' wine-pourer, for the sake of his beauty, so he might be among the gods."
Homer, Iliad 20. 232
#Ganymedes abducted by #Zeus, Roman #mosaic from Sousse, Tunisia, 2nd century CE
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It was the #Theogamia on Monday, the anniversary of the marriage of Zeus Teleios and Hera Teleia.
"The Moirai (Fates) formerly united Olympian Hera to the King [Zeus] who governs the gods from the summit of his inaccessible throne. Oh! Hymen! oh! Hymenaios!"
Aristophanes, Birds 1720
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"He [Zeus] took Liber [Dionysos] from her womb, and gave him to Nysus to be cared for. For this reason he is called Dionysus, and also 'the one with two mothers'."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 167
#Zeus and Baby #Dionysos, red-figure vase detail, Ferrara, Museo Nazionale di Spina 2737 - Attic red-figure volute krater by the Altamura Painter
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"He [Zeus] took Liber [Dionysos] from her womb, and gave him to Nysus to be cared for. For this reason he is called Dionysus, and also 'the one with two mothers'."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 167
#Zeus and Baby #Dionysos, red-figure vase detail, Ferrara, Museo Nazionale di Spina 2737 - Attic red-figure volute krater by the Altamura Painter
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"The rich-haired Nymphai received him [Dionysos] in their bosoms from the lord his father and fostered and nurtured him carefully in the dells of Nysa, where by the will of his father he grew up in a sweet-smelling cave, being reckoned among the immortals."
Homeric Hymn 26 to Dionysos
#Dionysos Nativity, Museum of Naples
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"The Father of men and gods [#Zeus] gave you birth remote from men and secretly from white-armed Hera."
Homeric Hymn 1 to Dionysos
Birth of #Dionysos detail on a Roman Sarcophagus with the Triumph of Dionysos, ca 190 CE, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
Lucas Livingston
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"He [#Zeus] went to #Semele in Kadmos' palace. Then her mortal frame could not endure the tumult of the heavens; that gift of love consumed her. From her womb her baby, still not fully formed, was snatched, and sewn (could one believe the tale) inside his father's thigh, and so completed there his mother's time."
#Ovid, Metamorphoses
Birth of #Dionysos
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"The rich-haired Nymphs received him [#Dionysos] in their bosoms from the lord his father [#Zeus] and fostered and nurtured him carefully in the dells of Nysa, where by the will of his father he grew up in a sweet-smelling cave, being reckoned among the immortals"
Homeric Hymn 26 to Dionysos
Attic red-figure volute krater by the Altamura Painter, Ferrara, Museo Nazionale di Spina
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"Dionysos is a god . . . once stitched into the thigh of Zeus – Dionysos, his mother burnt up by the flame of lightning."
Euripides, Bacchae 245
Roman marble relief, 2nd century after a Greek model of the late 4th century BCE. Rome, Pius-Clementine Museum
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#Qailertetang is the Inuit goddess who controls the weather. She also cares for animals, fishers, and hunters. She is depicted as a "large woman of very heavy limbs" and lives with her companion Sedna at the bottom of the sea. Before a hunt, #Inuit shamans will serve her and Sedna to ensure success in the hunt.
SyrusbLiz on DeviantArt
https://www.deviantart.com/syrusbliz/art/Perna-Classic-Mythology-3-Inuit-Goddesses-753068636
