#Eagle Zeus

[msbunnat]

Some more drawings (they re kinda old)

[sarnai4]

Artemis: I think Dad's mad at Ares again.

Athena: What makes you say that?

Artemis (pulls up this image)

[ruubesz-draws]

Zeuszilla? Zuezilla? Zeusilla???? Idk but it's trending on Twitter rn

Anyway, my contribution haha I'll just put this here and disappear!

[scyllas-dogs]

HGGFSSSDHGXX- ur Zeus x Odysseus content is keeping me going aaaaaaaaa- god(s), Zeus catching feels for this lil’ jackass n then being sad when he goes back to the people he actually wants to be with is so juicy mmmmm- love that kinda thing hehe drama, drama everywhere >:]]]

zeus actually somehow retains negative rizz when he cant figure out how to seduce someone

[aliciavance4228]

"The hardest mythology painting? That doesn’t exi-"

The Infant Jupiter by Sir Joshue Reynolds:

[gotstabbedbyapen]

Apollo: *turns into a swan and lets Hyacinthus ride him across the land*

Zeus: *turns into an eagle and snatches Ganymede to the sky out of nowhere*

[deadbaguette]

Me: I should make a Paris design I’ve been meaning to since I need to complete my trio piece with Hektor and Kassandra

My pen: Hera and Zeus

Me: what

My pen:

[artbyanca]

Couldn't finish my sketchbook without having Zeus sharing a page with his beloved daughter.

[red-moon-at-night]

If I had a nickel for every time I came across a piece of ancient greek pottery where an eagle (presumably Zeus) is presiding over the Helen Egg — I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

[aesthetic--mood]

Zeus Aesthetic

[orphicachilles]

In my oc story, i have jupiter based off of a harpy eagle, and i think more people should also have a zeus desgin based off of it because look that this fucking thing

Badass, terrifying, huge, the same color palette as a storm. This is literally zeus

[conformi]

Dimitris Papaioannou, Primal Matter, 2012 VS School of Marcantonio Raimondi (after Michelangelo), Rape of Ganymede, early 16th century

[ratatoskryggdrasil]

Ralph Chubb, Ganymede, 1925

[the-tortured-apollo-department]

I'm reading "The Dialogue of the Gods" by Lucian of Samosata, and there's this part where Zeus captures the one who will be his new cupbearer........

So Ganymedes tries to convince Zeus to take him back home, and when he realizes that the old man won't let go of the bone, he asks: "Oh but who will play with me? In my house i have playmates my age"

🥹🥹🥹

Nobody prepared me for this my friends. In my mind i was aware that Zeus had taken Ganymedes still young, but NOW i realized 💔

And Zeus response was that he could play with Eros 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠

[misterlemonztenth]

03-03-24 | The Abduction of Ganymede by Zeus. Credit: Anthony Gayton. via ganymedesrocks. misterlemonztenth.tumblr.com/archive

[katerinaaqu]

Hiii I haven't ask you anything for quite a long time

Can you please tell us about Aëtos, Zeus's eagle?

Hehehe you are always welcome! Aëtos huh? Interesting!

For starters "Aëtos" means "eagle" in Greek. Eagle is the primary symbol of Zeus possibly due to its majestic nature and its power, the fact that it is the apex predator of the heavens, like Zeus is the king of the heavens and it flies very high. Also its nature to dive down to catch prey possibly resembles to Greeks the way the god descends or the way the lightning and thunder strike the earth or legends that associate the bird with immunity to lightning among others.

There are several eagles mentioned in mythology that are associated with Zeus. One of them is the Caucasian Eagle, a bronze bird created by Hephaestus (Hyginus) or son of Echidna and Typhoon (Apollodorus) or of Tartarus and Gaea (Hyginus) that according to the myth he was sent to eat Prometheus's liver every day till it was taken down by Heracles. Another eagle, this time associated with humans was a king named Periphas (Περίφας) a son of Gaea or associated with Gaea who was also a dedicated priest of Apollo. However Zeus got angry that the young king was worshipped almost like a god himself and tried to smite him with a lightning and he was saved the last moment by Apollo who turned him into a bird. According to other myths, Zeus adopts the bird as a sign of good omens and the bird sits by his throne. Basically he saw the bird flying while he was preparing himself for the battle against the Titans (Anacreon, fragment) or that Zeus was making a sacrifice for a good battle against the Titans and there he saw the eagle flying (Hyginus)

Aëtos though seems to be a story of his own. According to writings of roman scholiasts like Maurus Servius Honoratus (yeah the same guy that apparently hates Achilles and speaks about him going mad with lust seeing Troilus XD) mentions the story of Aëtos in his script. He mentions how he was a playmate of Zeus while he was hiding at Crete as he was growing up in secret from his father Cronos. He was said to be a very beautiful young man. Hera found out about his existence and thought that Zeus loved him, thus wishing to smite him. Zeus saved the boy the last moment, transforming it into an eagle/bird and held him by his side as his messenger in that form. Aëtos is also the eagle that according to that tradition is sent by Zeus to snatch Ganymedes and bring him to Olympus to become Zeus's cupbearer (In most versions of the myth Ganymedes is simply snatched by an eagle but apparently Honoratus seems to be naming that eagle as a transformed human)