Greek Religious Thought from Homer to the Age of Alexander

Francis Macdonald Cornford

205 chapters · about 5 h

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I. HOMER

darkness, and Zeus the broad heaven among the bright air and the clouds: the earth and high Olympus are yet common to all. Therefore never will I walk after the will of Zeus; no, masterful though he be, let him stay quiet in his own third part.”

Reminded by Iris that the avenging spirits {Erinyes) come to the aid of the elder-born, Poseidon thinks better of it and angrily retires to the sea.

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