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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-25 15:45:56
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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"When Zeus was beginning warfare against the Titans [...] he saw an eagle fly nearby as a favourable omen for victory. In return for this happy omen, and particularly because it was indeed followed by victory, he put a golden eagle on his war standards and dedicated it as a protection for his valour."
Anacreon, Frag…

Marble sculpture of Zeus or Jupiter, standing, an eagle perched at his feet, the thunderbolt in its talons. The god is wearing a himation and is depicted as a mature, bearded man.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-07-24 07:27:53
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"In the course of the battle [the giant] Porphyrion rushed against Herakles and also Hera. #Zeus instilled him with a passion for Hera and when he tore her gown and wanted to rape her, she called for help, whereat Zeus hit him with …

Detail of Zeus battling the giant Porphyrion from a painting of the Gigantomachia (War of the Giants). Zeus brandishes a lightning-bolt in one hand and holds a royal sceptre in the other. He is crowned with a wreath of laurel or oak and has a cloak draped across his arm. The Gigante is armed with a rock and equipped with a crested helm and a shield painted with a coiling serpent.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-08-21 11:32:12
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"Jupiter, mindful of his indiscretion, rescued her [Kallisto] and placed her and her son among the constellations. He named her Arctos (Bear), and her son Arctophylas (Bear Watcher)."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.1
🏛️ #Jupiter

Roman mosaic of Jupiter as Wednesday. The bust of the god is inside a reddish circle. He wears a wreath, possibly an oak-leaf crown. A blue and green himation is draped around his shoulders. Jupiter is depicted as a mature, bearded man.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-18 06:49:04
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"Zeus breathes deeply with delight, like men who have undergone a great contest for a great prize, and he looks searchingly for his daughter, feeling pride in his offspring; nor yet is there even on Hera's face any trace of indignation; nay, she rejoices, as though Athena were her daughter also."
Philostratus th…

Red-figure vase painting of Athena, daughter of Zeus, standing between her step-mother Hera and Zeus who are both seated and holding a sceptre. Zeus is holding a libation bowl towards Athena who is bearing a spear and the aegis.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-07-17 07:48:04
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"Having slaughtered a male child, they mixed his bowels with the sacrifices, and set them before him, at the instigation of the elder brother Mainalos. But Zeus in disgust upset the table at the place which is still called Trapezos, and blasted Lykaon and his sons by thunderbolts, all but Nyktimos, the youngest."
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Bronze figurine of Zeus Keraunos (Zeus of the Thunderbolt). He he depicted as a mature, bearded man, wielding his thunderbolt in his right and taking aim with his outstretched left arm.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-08-14 07:35:07
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"[Zeus] soared ascending to the ethereal sky, and by his nod called up the trailing clouds and massed a storm, with lightnings in the squalls, and thunder and the bolts that never miss."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.302
🏛️ Jupiter, plaster copy of a Roman relief ca. 117–138 CE, Thorvaldsens Museum

Relief of Zeus in heroic nudity, holding a sceptre in his left hand and a thunderbolt in his right. A himation is draped over hihs left shoulder and arm. His hair is braided in the front and falls loosely over his shoulders in the back. He is depicted as a mature man with a full beard.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-11 07:16:27
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"Because of his beauty, Zeus kidnapped Ganymedes by means of an eagle, and set him as cupbearer in the sky."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.141
🏛️ #Ganymedes and Zeus as an eagle, Roman

Mosaic of Ganymedes giving Zeus in the shape of an eagle something to drink from a cup. Ganymedes wears boots, a red himation, and a blue Phrygian cap.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-07-10 20:49:46
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"Then #Zeus no longer held back his might; but straight his heart was filled with fury and he showed forth all his strength. From Heaven and from Olympos he came forthwith, hurling his lightning: the bold flew thick and fast from hi…

A bronze statue of Zeus striding forward, his arm raised to hurl a thunderbolt now missing. He has long, braided hair and a crown.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-08-07 07:47:18
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"#Zeus, as king of the gods, took as his first wife Metis, and she knew more than all the gods or mortal people. But when she was about to be delivered of the goddess, gray-eyed Athene, then Zeus, deceiving her perception by treache…

Red-figure vase painting of Athena holding an oinochoe (wine jug) as Zeus and Hera, seated to either side of her, proffer phialai (libation bowls) to be filled.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-04 07:31:42
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"There is also [in Troizenos, Argolis] a sanctuary of Zeus surnamed Soter (the Saviour), which, they say, was made by [the mythical] Aitios, the son of Anthas, when he was king."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.31.10
🏛️ Glass cast, Roman cameo, bust of Zeus-Jupiter, signet ring, 30 BCE - No later than 200 C…

Glass cast of Zeus-Jupiter on a signet ring. The god is depicted as a mature man with a full beard and long hair. He's wearing a crown or fillet around his head. He is shown in profile.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-07-03 12:24:37
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Enraged by #Prometheus stealing fire for the humans, #Zeus, "bound [ready-witted Prometheus] with inextricable bonds, cruel chains,…

Black-figure vase painting of a seated man facing a flying eagle. The painting depicts either the bound Titan Prometheus tormented by the Caucasian eagle or Zeus seated on a throne with his eagle familiar.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-07-31 07:02:06
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"Typhoeus, would have been king of gods and of mortals, had not [Zeus] the father of gods and men been sharp to perceive it and gave a hard, heavy clap of thunder, so that the earth gave grisly reverberation, and the wide heaven above, and the sea, and the streams of Okeanos, and the underground chambers."
Hesiod, T…

Black-figure vase painting depicting Zeus' battle with the winged, serpent-footed, animal-eared giant Typhoeus. Zeus, armed with a lightning bolt, attacks Typhoeus.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-08-28 08:09:55
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"On the highest point of the mountain is a mound of earth, forming an altar of Zeus Lykaios, and from it most of the Peloponnesos can be seen. Before the altar on the east stand two pillars, on which there were of old gilded eagles."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.38.2
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Roman marble copy of a Greek statue of Zeus (Roman Jupiter). The god stands holding a royal sceptre (missing) and cup, with an eagle by his side. He is depicted as a mature man with a full beard.