All 3 Uses of
Zeus
in
The Trial of Socrates, by Linder
- He points out that Aristophanes, in his Clouds, had a character speculating that rain was Zeus urinating through a sieve, mistaking it for a chamberpot—and that no one ever bothered to charge Aristophanes with impiety.†
Zeus = Greek mythology: the most supreme of the gods
- Stone concludes: "One could in the same city and in the same century worship Zeus as a promiscuous old rake, henpecked and cuckolded by Juno or as Justice deified.†
- The impious individual was seen as a contaminant who, if not controlled or punished, might bring upon the city the wrath of the gods—Athena, Zeus, or Apollo—in the form of plague or sterility.†
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