Zeus

The story isn't long, but it does seem important. It has continued to be represented in art and in story (though there have DEFINITELY been some changes made to make it fit into the new cultures), but it was also super important in ancient Greece, where sacrifices were made in a festival in his honor. Rituals were done in his name. I will probably forget to follow up on this and read lebih artikel-artikel about why, so if anda know, anda should e-mel me!

Anyway, a short summary is made sejak Apollodorus (1.9.19), which I will translate myself (since I don't like Frazer's translation at all here):
"For Hylas,...

Everyone knows what a philanderer Zeus was, in fact, I'm sure it was something of a family joke on Olympus. But Hera wasn't laughing. She knew her husband cheated on her just about every saat of the day, but she wasn't going to just sit there and watch it. No, Hera spent just about every saat of HER hari trying to curb her hubby's "appetite." You'd think that Hera would take most of her anger out on her husband, but nooooooo. Hera spent all her destructive vengeful energy on the poor female (or in SOME cases male) who happened to be Zeus' current plaything.

The object of today's story is...

Our story begins with Echo and Zeus. That ever-cheatin' God was at it again, this time with the mountain nymphs of Kithairon, of whom Echo was one. Now, at that time (just in case anda may have picked up on the significance of her name) Echo was a nymph like any other and a very talkative one at that. And while Zeus was dilly-dallying with Echo's sisters, Hera was NOT a happy camper. She had followed Zeus, expecting JUST that kind of behavior out of him. She came down to Earth to apprehend her "too-much-love-for-one-woman" husband, but Zeus, being godly, sensed her coming. Echo bit the bullet...

The story begins before the birth of either Andromeda atau Perseus. In the land of Argolis there was a great warrior-king named Abas. He was a man so mighty that even after he died the sight of his shield would send rebels to the royal house scattering in fear. He had two twin sons to whom he gave the responsibility of ruling the kingdom. He charged that they should each rule a year, and then switch. But the twins, Acrisius and Proetus, weren't content with this arrangement, and when Acrisius refused to give up the takhta at the end of his term, Proetus launched a bloody assualt on the kingdom....

The name "Psyche" means "Soul" and her union with Eros (aka Cupid) tells the story of how Cinta and Soul came to be together. sejak the way, this story is Roman, not Greek, but it works just as well with the Greek, so that is how I shall tell it. This myth had an enormous impact on fairy tales for the seterusnya couple of thousand years.

Long, long lalu a king had three daughters. Psyche, who was the youngest of the three daughters, was so incredibly beautiful that people in her village and outlying areas STOPPED praying to Aphrodite, taking Psyche for the Goddess of Beauty instead. That wasn't too good,...