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zeus
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What does zeus mean?
proper noun
- The supreme Deity and ruler of all Hellenic gods in Hellenism, husband to Hera.
- A male given name.
- A representative given name for a dog.
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Suppliants of all ages are seated round the altar at the palace doors, at their head a PRIEST OF ZEUS.
Clearly when he does what the man is said to do in the tale of the Arcadian temple of Lycaean Zeus.
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Even Zeus himself was sometimes called 'Soter,' and at feasts, it is said, the THIRD goblet was always drunk in his honor.
He is represented with many of the attributes of the Greek god Zeus, and is supposed by some to be identical with him.
Dyaus is also called janitâr, "producer, father," and Zeus, the "eternal father of men," the "father of gods and men, the ruler and preserver of the world."