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Homer designs the plane of the gods

Giant tortoise, Darwin Station, Galapagos
Giant tortoise, Darwin Station, Galapagos

according to the contemporary aristocratic world. Like the Assyrian great king, Zeus sees himself as the executor of the inevitable fate.

 

Like the princes of the small Cilician states, the individual gods act with relative independence, without ultimately being able to influence the fatefully predestined events.

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