... would be huge and deadly. The epic poems [i.e., Homer's Iliad and Odyssey] do not really question Achilles' right to bring destruction on the Greek army to avenge Agamemnon's insults, nor Odysseus' slaughter of the entire younger generation of the Ithacan aristocracy. Sophocles' Ajax sees nothing wrong in his attempt to kill the commanders of the army for denying him the armor of Achilles; his shame springs simply ... a solemn oath. And Jason she takes in completely by her assumption of the role of repentant wife: she showers him with such abject self-abasement, such fawning reiteration ...

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... a major headache. Other gods came to see what the problem was. Hermes directed Hephaestus to take and axe and split open the skull of Zeus. It was then that out of the skull sprang Athena, full grown and in a full set of armor. The very Ancient Greeks believed that men were solely responsible for conception of a child, and that the women's role was to carry it until ... an olive tree to spring up. The people of Athens were so delighted with the olive tree that Zeus gave the city to Athena, and named it after her. The Greeks also built the Acropolis, with its centerpiece consisting of th...

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