z za zd ze zi zl zo zp zr zt zu zw zy

Перевод: Zeus

[имя собственное]
Зевс

Тезаурус:

1. In 174 BC the Roman architect Decimus Cossutius, son of Poplius, worked on the construction of the temple of Olympian Zeus at Athens, a project sponsored by the Seleucid king Antiochus IV.
2. Legend has it that ZEUS granted the boy immortality on condition that he remain forever slumbering.
3. The classical legends set down by ancient Greek poets like Homer referred to a number of gods, under their leader Zeus, supposedly located on Mount Olympus, who made occasional forays onto the human scene in various human or animal disguises.
4. ZEUS was the lover of a mortal maid, Semele, who foolishly asked the god to appear before her so she might identify him.
5. Ultimately, Zeus overcame his father and chained him to a rock midway between the earth and sea.
6. After all, Mnemosyne is, by Zeus, mother of the muses and goddess of Memory, which is at the heart of pretty well all states of mind.
7. Daughter of CRONUS and wife to ZEUS.
8. She was jealous of her husband's many romantic liaisons and was a formidable opponent, with many stories being told of her harrying Zeus' mistresses and persecuting his illegitimate children.
9. According to Hesiod, in the "good old days" before the lordship of Zeus when his father Kronos was king, there was a Golden Age.
10. A statue of Poseidon of Isthmia was labelled as Zeus, and a portrait representing Philip II of Macedon as Zeus was described quite simply as Zeus.
11. When Paullus saw at Olympia the gold and ivory statue of Zeus by Pheidias, he declared he felt himself in the presence of a god.
12. His youngest son ZEUS was saved this fate, being raised in a secret cave and suckled by a she-goat.
13. The Maccabees fought rather than acquiesce in the placing of a statue of Zeus in the Temple.