All 50 Uses of "Zeus" in "Circe" - Curated

"Surely she will marry a son of Zeus," my mother insisted.

p. 6.2

Zeus = Greek mythology: the most supreme of the gods

You will marry an eternal son of Zeus.

p. 8.9

My mother glowed to hear it, thinking of the robes she would wear to Zeus' feasts.

p. 9.1

Long ago, when mankind was still shivering and shrinking in their caves, he had defied the will of Zeus and brought them the gift of fire.

p. 14.2 *

Zeus = Greek mythology: the most supreme of the gods

editor's notes: This is about Prometheus

From its flames had sprung all the arts and profits of civilization that jealous Zeus had hoped to keep from their hands.

p. 14.3

Zeus = Greek mythology: the most supreme of the gods

And now Zeus announced the time was come.

p. 14.5

Those who were not broken or in chains, who had made their peace with Zeus' thunderbolts.

p. 14.9

Kronos was deceived, and the rescued baby, Zeus, was taken to Mount Dicte to be raised in secret.

p. 15.2

Many threw their strength to Kronos, but my father and grandfather joined Zeus.

p. 15.4

At last Zeus' strength prevailed.

p. 15.6

Zeus should have loaded them with new powers, new appointments, but he was afraid, for their strength already matched his own.

p. 15.9

But Helios only returned to his halls beneath the earth, far from Zeus' sky-bright gaze.

p. 16.1

Greater than Zeus himself, if only you wish it.

p. 16.4

This Zeus does well enough.

p. 16.5

Zeus, if he had heard, would have been satisfied.

p. 16.5

This Zeus does well enough, for now.

p. 16.6

Prometheus' sudden punishment was a sign, they said, that Zeus and his kind were moving against us at last.

p. 16.9

We should stand with Prometheus, or no, we should speak against him, to ward off Zeus' thunderstroke from our own heads.

p. 16.9

Athena, Zeus' warrior daughter, hunting us down with her gray spear, her brother in slaughter, Ares, by her side.

p. 17.1

The only ones missing were Zeus and his Olympians.

p. 18.3

I heard an aunt beside me whisper that the fetters had been made by the great god of smiths, Hephaestus himself, so not even Zeus could break them.

p. 19.1

I had heard my uncles say that Zeus had given him the chance to beg on his knees for lesser punishment.

p. 20.1

And that you were not caught, but confessed to Zeus freely what you did?

p. 22.5

"Father," I said, "will Zeus ever let Prometheus go?"

p. 26.1

He knew that the herbs Zeus had poured down Kronos' throat were called pharmaka.

p. 28.2

A son of Zeus and king of Crete.

p. 30.5

I said he would be an eternal son of Zeus, and so he is.

p. 30.6

Minos was a son of Zeus, and all the bootlicking Olympians would also come to pay their homage.

p. 31.3

My uncles were especially pleased: Zeus was unlikely to move against us as long as the marriage held.

p. 31.5

Zeus at the top and my father just behind.

p. 32.3

Then Zeus' siblings and children, then my uncles, and on down through all the ranks of river-gods and brine-lords and Furies and Winds and Graces, until it came to the bottom where we sat, nymphs and mortals both, each eyeing the other.

p. 32.3

Minos, king of Crete, son of Zeus and a mortal woman.

p. 33.2

When Zeus punished him, I brought him nectar.

p. 40.5

Zeus and I made sure of that.

p. 62.4

You are not poor and patchy, but Zeus come again?

p. 65.7

But you should know that I would be happy to give Zeus a more …. impressive demonstration.

p. 68.1

His worry is over Zeus.

p. 70.1

He must paint us just right: that we are threat enough that Zeus should think twice, but not so much that he is forced to act.

p. 70.2

But I was not allowed to leave until my father spoke to Zeus.

p. 70.5

My father would be standing before Zeus now.

p. 72.7

Zeus' head would blot out the light, and his hand would reach down to crush us one by one.

p. 72.8

He would find a way to appease Zeus.

p. 73.1

"I have spoken to Zeus," he said.

p. 73.2

Pasiphae's husband is a son of Zeus, and he will be sure she is held to her proper place.

p. 73.6

It is agreed with Zeus that for this she must be punished.

p. 74.2

I heard Zeus wanted to make an example of you.

p. 75.6

I tell Father that my sorcery was an accident, he pretends to believe me, and Zeus pretends to believe him, and so the world is balanced.

p. 76.1

But Scylla was no Zeus, and I was no Prometheus.

p. 79.9

I thought back to his face when he spoke of Zeus' decree, his clear, ringing rage.

p. 79.9

Zeus had demanded the discipline of Helios' blood.

p. 80.1

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