Zeus

Jove now I sing, the greatest and the best
Of al these Powrs that are with Deitie blest,
That farr-off doth his dreadfull Voice diffuse,
And (being King of All)doth all conduce
To all their ends.
George Chapman

In the IliadZeus yields to the pleading of Thetis and grants glory to Achilles, a choice
that precipitates much of the action of the epic. Later, he is distracted by Hera (to the
detriment of the Trojans) and, regretfully, chooses not to intervene in the fated death of
his mortal son, the Trojan hero Sarpedon. Similarly, Zeus yields to Athena's pleading in
Book 1 of the Odysseyand, via Hermes, orders the release of Odysseus after seven year's
on Calypso's island.

Literature

Auden, W. H. "Ode to Gaea." The Shield of Achilles. Noew York: Random House, 1955.

Atwood, Margaret. "Sculptured Zeus." Acta Victoriana84 no.2 (Mar. 1960)

Campbell, David Watt Ian. "The Branch of Dodona." The Branch of Dodona and Other
Poems. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1970.

Chapman, George. “Al the Hymnes of Homer: To Jove.” Chapman’s Homer. Vol. 2. The
Odyssey and the Lesser Homerica. Ed. Allardyce Nicoll. 2nded. London:
Routledge, 1967. 594.

---. “Al the Hymnes of Homer: To the Muses and Apollo.” Chapman’s Homer. Vol. 2.
The Odyssey and the Lesser Homerica. Ed. Allardyce Nicoll. 2nded. London:
Routledge, 1967. 594-95. [“The Muses, Jove and Phoebus, now I sing.”]

Clampitt, Amy. "Dodona: Asked of the Oracle." Poetry 143 no. 6 (Mar. 1984).

Durrell, Lawrence. "Letters in Darkness." The Tree of Idleness and Other Poems.
London: Faber & Faber, 1955.

Goodman, Paul. "La Gaya Scienza" section 9. Collected Poems. New York: Random
House, 1973.

Graves, Robert. "The Weather of Olympus." Poems, 1938-1945. London: Cassell, 1945.

H. D. "Let Zeus Record." Red Roses for Bronze. London: Chatto & Windus, 1931.

Hope, A. D. "Argolis." New Poems, 1965-1969. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1969.

Hough, Graham. "Children of Zeus." Legends and Pastorals. London: Duckworth, 1961.

Lattimore, Richmond. "Of Seven Sins: Avarice." The Stride of Time. Ann Arbor: U of
Michigan P, 1966. 36.

---."Poussin's World: Two Pictures." Poems from Three Decades. New York: Scribner,
1972.

O'Hara, Frank. "Jove." A City Winter and Other Poems. New York: Tibor de Nagy, 1954.

Smith, Stevie. "Friskers, or Gods and Men." Collected Poems. Ed. James MacGibbon.
New York: New Directions, 1983. 268. [Pen-and-ink illustration.]

Trimpi, Wesley. "Asteria." The Glass of Perseus. Denver: Swallow, 1953.

Criticism

Scheid, John, and Jesper Svenbro. The Craft of Zeus: Myths of Weaving and Fabric.
Cambridge: Harvard UP. 240p.