Comparing Athena And Zeus

Zeus can be compared to Superman in the sense that he is powerful, he protects the weak, and punishes the wicked. He is a human-like god in a sense he commits adultery, and is often to his wife Hera. The real life ideals represented by Zeus’s role, is one of a just and powerful character that gets justice against those that are bad and by protecting the good and weak. For Zeus being the god over all the Olympian gods it is quite easy to be powerful and just. In real life instance the justice system is the one to execute injustice through the law, the police and court system. This enables the victims that a sense of justice has been served.

Zeus was known for a number of things, but his love affairs was one of the numerous things he was famous for. Zeus was the king of all the gods, he was known for the god of the skies, weather, fate and laws. Out of all of his lovers he had over the years, his first was known as Aphrodite. She was the goddess of beauty and was followed by Zeus when she first emerged from the great sea, but she managed to escape him. It did not take much time for Zeus’ wife Hera to realize that their marriage was falling into the deep end. Zeus had a deep lust which then made Hera’s jealousy fester. (Summary 1).

Zeus is the highest form of power among the gods, the ruler of both mortals and immortals. Through The Iliad, Zeus thinks he is in charge, but he is afraid of prophecies and fate. In the backstory of The Iliad, most know that Zeus wanted to have sex with Thetis, but he was afraid that the child they would bear together would be stronger than himself, as the prophecy stated ‘the first son of Thetis will be stronger than his father’. Dictated by his fate, Zeus refrained from having sex with her and married her off to another man so they would have a child together. Zeus is constantly expression that he is afraid of being undermined, but he is also to arrogant at points to admit that he’s not as powerful as he portrays himself. He’s fearful that someone will uncover his weaknesses and not respect him. By the start of The Iliad, Zeus is still afraid of people viewing him negatively, mortals and gods alike.

Zeus used to cheat on Hera and she would get back at him and his mistresses. One of the most famous myth is that Zeus had mistresses on earth and they had a baby and Hera sent to serpents to kill the baby but the baby was half god so when the serpents tried to killed the baby, he tied the two serpents together. When Hera found out he was cheating she grabbed a gold chain and tied it around him when he was sleeping when he woke up he got so mad at Hera and kept her in a basement for a while and gave up because of Hera’s crying. He let her go and they promised each other they will stay faithful together and won’t tried to get back at each other. I think it’s important to know about this myth how Zeus would always cheat and how Hera would she would get back at her.Zeus and Hera wasn’t always a perfect couple but they are always trying their best to be faithful to each other. I think it’s important to know about these myths to see how Hera and Zeus marriage was really like. I think the most interesting thing about these myth’s is how Hera was not afraid to hurt anyone. Not everyone has a perfect

Hera is, probably, the brightest example of how Greco-Roman mythology reflects the power relations between women and men: Greek and Roman myths depict Hera as a woman of the utmost anger, evil, revenge, and jealousy. Aeschylus’s Prometheus Bound shows Hera as a woman full of negative emotions and the desire to destroy everything and everyone on her way to personal happiness. Aeschylus mentions the story of Hera, Zeus and Io. Zeus falls in love with Io but fearing Hera’s revenge, he turns Io into a cow and asks her to come to the meadow to make love with him: “but get thee gone to meadow deep / By Lerna’s marsh, where are thy father’s flocks And cattle-folds, that on the eye of Zeus / May fall the balm that shall assuage desire” (Aeschylus). In his poem, Aeschylus mentions Hera a few times, and every time her name is overfilled with negative connotations, turning Hera into a monster: “And Hera’s curse even as a runner stripped / Pursues thee ever on thine endless round” (Aeschylus). However, these

Many would have Zeus in two ideas, the low and the high. The low would be showed like someone that felt in love with one woman after another and descending to all manner of tricks to hide his infidelity to his wife, Hera. However, his action would have explanation, his story have been made by combining many gods. This problem would always made his wife,Hera, angry she wouldn’t care how innocent they looked;

In Greco-Roman Culture, humans imagine the deities of mythology to be and act certain ways, due to the needs they must fill. People invented certain deities for reasons that align with what they needed from them. To examine how a deity has a certain purpose, one must first examine what they are like. Athena and Ares are examples of deities invented for very specific purposes. One must first look at Athena and Ares’ similarities and differences in relation to their characteristics, their sexuality and physical appearances, as well as their different powers and how they are worshipped, to discover why they were created.

Especially after Io’s entrance and the recount of her story, Hera seems more like a jealous wife than the noble queen she is presented as in Hesiod’s work. Her attitude towards Io is blamed on Zeus, who has not only provoked Hera’s actions but is her husband and thus responsible for Hera, as it was customary in ancient Greece.

Despite the fact that Zeus was the highest of all the Greek gods, he was still one among many. God is a single, omnipotent, being that is the leader of the universe. Although they differ in that sense, they are both the highest of the gods in their states. Zeus, like the Christian God, expect good from all and want “their people” to obey their laws and orders. But unlike God, Zeus is not very accepting and although he expects good from all, he sees good in

My two gods are going to be Zeus and Athene, Zeus and Athene are both above ground gods. Zeus is the god of the sky and the Olympian gods. Athene is the goddess of war and wisdom. The things that are different about them both is that Zeus lives in the sky, and Athene lives by the sea. They are both very powerful and can control very useful elements and can take down anyone. I had a very hard time choosing theses to gods and or

The theme of this specific myth; I believe, would be how she gets revenge on all the women who Zeus fell in love with.Even though, Hera was the protector of marriage, and was the goddess that married women turned to for help she would also get revenge on women. Which leads me to the conflict, which would be, Zeus’s love affairs with women, and her hatred over being judged lowly against other women.

Zeus was created to be the ideal husband, lover, and father; yet, he constantly cheats on his wife, Hera. Furthermore, in placing Zeus on this pedestal it is curious why Zeus is depicted as amoral or cruel at times (i.e. in Zeus and Prometheus myths). Zeus supposedly holds up virtues and morality for humanity and divinity, however, if this was true why in the Iliad does it allude to there being an uprising against him by Poseidon, Hera and Athena?

The mythological character and God, Zeus, is portrayed in many ways, by many different people. Hesiod describes Zeus as being relentless in his fury. When he gets mad he unleashes all of his power. If his brother Hades wasn’t in charge of the Underworld, he’d make all of Hell break loose. 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 others, mortals and immortals, very unfairly. Two mortals could do the same exact type of sacrilege towards him, and depending on how he felt that day, he would take two very different approaches to how he would treat them. He also doesn’t take any threats towards him very lightly at all. If anyone ever threatens him, he normally punishes them very severely, if he doesn’t destroy them completely. Hesiod’s approach to Zeus’ behavior is overdramatic, and makes it seem more extreme than it probably would’ve been.

Zeus was not faithful; Hera had a belligerence toward Zeus. She started a revolt against him and planned to kill him. She thought that she could strap him under a tree with some ropes and whip him. It seemed like the plan would work but it only became total chaos. Zeus came back, and punished Hera in a portentous way by hanging her and whipping her. He made her promise not to harm him again.

Agency from the Gods Perspective In an argument that Hera and Zeus come to have over the war and destruction of some cities of the mortal world (4.35-85), leads to a question of the extent to which humans and gods have control. Zeus the most powerful god has a special set of abilities that are unique to him when it comes to controlling the forces surrounding him, however gods such as Hera display humanlike agency. Hera thinks about her actions, consequences, and then uses her wit to get tasks done which are particular characteristics of humans, not gods. You may think that Zeus with all the power he possesses that he may have ultimate agency but in reality he has humanlike agency just like Hera.