Zeus
by CTCWeb Editors
Associated Items and Beings
A god or goddess alone is inadequately defined since the people, beings, animals and things associate with a god or goddess say a lot about them. Through visual aids and texts, students can learn about the whole god or goddess by the items, people, beings, animals and things that accompany them or that are used in the exploits.
Below are citations for selected vases, coins, sculpture and text that demonstrate and explain the people, beings, animals and things associated with Zeus. Each representative citation has been selected for its image clarity and description.
Athena
Boston 00.330.
Parthenon East Pediment.
Apollodorus 1.3.6.
Hesiod Theogony 929.
Homer Iliad Book 5.695.
Homer Iliad Book 5.734.
Achilles
Homer Iliad Book 1.8.
Homer Iliad Book 1.74.
Hera
Homer Iliad Book 5.890.
Homer Iliad Book 8.395.
Homer Iliad Book 14.238.
Ganymede
Homeric Hymn 5: To Aphrodite, line 204.
Eagle
BCMA 1919.58.4a, BCMA 1919.58.65, Dewing 1125, Dewing 1858, Dewing 1889, Dewing 1893, Dewing 1935, Dewing 562. Parthenon East Pediment. Aristophanes, Birds line 514. Homer Iliad Book 8.245. Homer Iliad Book 24.314.
Aegis
Homer Iliad Book 4.165. Homer Iliad Book 5.695. Hesiod Theogony line 11.
Thunderbolt
Apollodorus 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.6.2, 1.6.3, 1.9.7, 2.6.2, 3.4.3, 3.6.7, 3.8.1, 3.10.4, 3.11.2, 3.12.6. BCMA 1919.58.65. Dewing 1893. Aristophanes, Birds lines 1716, 1748. Hesiod Theogony 142, 286. Homer Iliad Book 9.235. Homer Iliad Book 10.154. Homer Odyssey Book 5.131.
Throne
Aristophanes, Birds line 217. Homer Iliad 1.535. Homer Iliad Book 4.165. Homer Iliad Book 5.695. Homer Iliad Book 8.442. Homer Iliad Book 11.545. Homer Iliad Book 12.26.
Oak Tree
Herodotus 2.56.2. Homer Iliad Book 11.294. Pausanias 1.17.5. Pausanias 2.55.1.
Rain/Storm
Homer Iliad Book 5.90. Homer Iliad Book 4.165. Homer Iliad Book 11.294. Homer Odyssey Book 9.68, 9.110, 12.405. Pausanias 1.17.5, 2.25.10, 2.29.8.
White Poplar
Pausanias 5.13.3, 5.14.1.