All 9 Uses of
Zeus
in
Oedipus King of Thebes (translated by: Murray)
- _ PRIEST OF ZEUS.†
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- O Oedipus, who holdest in thy hand My city, thou canst see what ages stand At these thine altars; some whose little wing Scarce flieth yet, and some with long living O'erburdened; priests, as I of Zeus am priest, And chosen youths: and wailing hath not ceased Of thousands in the market-place, and by Athena's two-fold temples and the dry Ash of Ismenus' portent-breathing shore.†
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- Zeus-Child that knowest not death, to thee I pray, O Pallas; next to thy Sister, who calleth Thebes her own, Artemis, named of Fair Voices, who sitteth her orbed throne In the throng of the market way:†
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- [To ZEUS, that he drive out the Slayer,†
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- Him, Him, O thou whose hand Beareth the lightning brand, O Father Zeus, now with thy thunder, slay and slay!†
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- Ah, Zeus knows, and Apollo, what is dark to mortal eyes; They are Gods.†
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- O Thou that rulest——if men rightly call Thy name on earth——O Zeus, thou Lord of all And Strength undying, let not these things linger Unknown, tossed to and fro.†
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- Straight his archery flew To the heart of living; he knew Joy and the fulness of power, O Zeus, when the riddling breath Was stayed and the Maid of Death Slain, and we saw him through The death-cloud, a tower!†
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- ——Abae was an ancient oracular shrine in Boeotia; Olympia in Elis was the seat of the Olympian Games and of a great Temple of Zeus.†
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Definition:
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(Zeus) Greek mythology: the most supreme of the gods