Zeus: King of the Gods
The Ancients
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Hercules - The Swan in the Middle of the Swan
There's a massive genealogical family tree to be constructed out of Zeus's couplings in terms of with his wife and then also with these kind of wider range of affairs stroke consummation stroke what we would term today as rapes of women in antiquity. We have to imagine ourselves back in the footsteps of people who are trying to explain and understand a world around them which is not fair right or naturally necessarily just I think that gets us into absolute key facet of how to understand the ancient Greek gold whether we're talking about Zeus or any of them which is that they are not good people. The joy about these myths and these stories is that they have a remained changeable and mutable because
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