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zeus

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What does zeus mean?

proper noun

  1. The supreme Deity and ruler of all Hellenic gods in Hellenism, husband to Hera.
  2. A male given name.
  3. 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.
SophoclesPlays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; AntigoneTranslated by Francis StorrProject Gutenberg ebook #31
Clearly when he does what the man is said to do in the tale of the Arcadian temple of Lycaean Zeus.
PlatoThe RepublicTranslated by Benjamin JowettProject Gutenberg ebook #1497
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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.
Edward CarpenterPagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and MeaningProject Gutenberg ebook #1561
He is represented with many of the attributes of the Greek god Zeus, and is supposed by some to be identical with him.
Ignatius DonnellyAtlantis: The Antedeluvian WorldProject Gutenberg ebook #4032
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."
Alexander Francis ChamberlainThe Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-DayProject Gutenberg ebook #7966