Zeus' Rise to Power: The Creation of Mortals
Morford and Lenardon, Chapter 2
Zeus: Overview, Zeus on Mythmedia, Images and Texts
Titanomachy: Zeus Defeats His
Father, Cronus
cosmic warfare
succession myth part II
Titans = Titanic
Gigantomachy:
Zeus Defeats the Giants and Typhoeus
Creation of Mortals
Ovid’s godlike animal
The Four or Five Ages of Humankind
Gold, Silver, Bronze, (Heroes), Iron
Lucas Cranach the Elder
The
Silver Age, The
Silver Age (The Effects of Jealousy)
devolution
Stone Age, Industrial Age, Space Age, Computer Age, etc.
Prometheus Against Zeus
Prometheus (forethought)
Creation of Pandora
Epimetheus (afterthought)
Pandora (jar or box?): the Greek Eve
Interpretations of Myths of Prometheus and Pandora
aetiology of fire and ritual sacrifice, human suffering and woes
Why does hope stay in the jar?
Divine oppressors versus divine benefactors
Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound
regenerative power of the liver
Io, Zeus, and Prometheus
Heracles, Io’s descendant, will free Prometheus
Zeus and Lycaon and the Wickedness of Mortals
lycanthropy
The Flood
Deucalion and Pyrrha
The race of stone
Noah and the Flood: Comparative Mythology
Succession Myths and Other Motifs
Babyonian Enuma Elish
In the Modern World
Pandora's Box
(click on the image for more information)
Prometheus Bound
the ages of humankind and the flood
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