The Golden Age Of Greece

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The ancient statues and pottery of the Golden Stone Age of Greece were much
advanced in spectacular ways. The true facts of Zeus’s main reason for his statue. The
great styles of the Kouros and the Kore. The story of The Blinding of Polphemus,
along with the story of Cyclops. The Dori and Ionic column stone temples that were
built in Greece that had an distinctive look. The true colors of the vase, Aryballos. The
vase that carried liquids from one place to another. The Lyric Poetry that was originally
a song to be sung to the accompaniment of the lyre.
Zeus was considered, according to Homer, the father of the gods and of mortals.
He did not create either gods or mortals; he was their father in the sense of being the
protector and ruler both of the Olympian family and of the human race. He was lord of
the sky, the rain god, and the cloud gatherer, who wielded the terrible thunderbolt. His
breastplate was the aegis, his bird the eagle, his tree the oak. Zeus presided over the
gods on Mount Olympus in Thessaly. His principal shrines were at Dodona, in Epirus,
the land of the oak trees and the most ancient shrine, famous for its oracle, and at
Olympia, where the Olympian Games were celebrated in his honor every fourth year.
The Nemean games, held at Nemea, northwest of Argos, were also dedicated to Zeus.
Zeus was the youngest son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea and the brother of the deities
Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Demeter, and Hera. According to one of the ancient myths of
the birth of Zeus, Cronus, fearing that he might be dethroned by one of his children,
swallowed them as they were born. Upon the birth of Zeus, Rhea wrapped a stone in
swaddling clothes for Cronus to swallow and concealed the infant god in Crete, where
he was fed on the milk of the goat Amalthaea and reared by nymphs. When Zeus grew
to maturity, he forced Cronus to disgorge the other children, who were eager to take
vengean...