Thursday, June 5, 2014

Zeus and His War Against the Giants



 
Heracles killing the giant Antaeus (public domain)
 
 
Zeus and his family fought and killed evil giants.  Here is a passage from Diodorus Siculus:

Zeus also had other wars against the Giants, we are told in Macedonia near Pallene and in Italy on the plain which of old was named Phlergraen ("fiery") after the region about it which has been burned, but which in later times men called Cumacan. Now the Giants were punished by Zeus because they had treated the rest of mankind in a lawless fashion and, confiding in their bodily superiority and strength, had enslaved their neighbours, and because they were also disobeying the rules of justice which he was laying down and were raising up war against those whom all mankind considered to be gods because of the benefactions they were conferring upon men generally. Zeus, then, we are told, not only totally eradicated the impious and evil-doers from among mankind, but he also distributed honouors as they were merited among the noblest of magnitude of his benefactions and his superior power all men accorded to him as with one voice both the everlasting kingship which he possesses and his dwelling upon Mount Olympus. - Diodorus Siculus, Library of History Volume 3, page 291.


by Rita Jean Moran (www.thelibrarykids.com and www.hiddenhumanstory.com)

 

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