The myth of Zeus' test - Iseult Gillespie
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Date: 2022-09-13
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Comments and reviews: 14
Tim
Awesome story! It's an archetypal story, which is why it's so good.
Baucis and Philemon sacrificed what little they had to the highest principle, to Zeus, the highest of all gods - making it the ultimate sacrifice. Whereas all who didn't make this sacrifice got swallowed by chaos, washed away by the flood that was sent by the gods. Baucis and Philemon are full of love, i. e. selflessness. Notice how they didn't request anything grand like a marble tempel - and for that very reason, the received one. All they wanted was each other, and that they already had. Turning into trees is obviously a symbol for eternal transformation, as the tree is the underlying, unchanging structure, sheding and regrowing its leaves forever.
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Awesome story! It's an archetypal story, which is why it's so good.
Baucis and Philemon sacrificed what little they had to the highest principle, to Zeus, the highest of all gods - making it the ultimate sacrifice. Whereas all who didn't make this sacrifice got swallowed by chaos, washed away by the flood that was sent by the gods. Baucis and Philemon are full of love, i. e. selflessness. Notice how they didn't request anything grand like a marble tempel - and for that very reason, the received one. All they wanted was each other, and that they already had. Turning into trees is obviously a symbol for eternal transformation, as the tree is the underlying, unchanging structure, sheding and regrowing its leaves forever.
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ted_ed
Gotta love the gods. Teaching lessons of hospitality and grace by genociding all who slightly inconvenience them. Praising people for their generosity as they drink all their wine just to go back home where there's magic chalices of infinite wine. Where's Kratos?
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Gotta love the gods. Teaching lessons of hospitality and grace by genociding all who slightly inconvenience them. Praising people for their generosity as they drink all their wine just to go back home where there's magic chalices of infinite wine. Where's Kratos?
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Hope
What a bliss it is to lay on couch and let my mind wander with TedEd's beautiful animation and narration. History seems like a woven story and science like a wonderful and beautiful oblivion. TedEd really does know how to teach and to make minder ponder.
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What a bliss it is to lay on couch and let my mind wander with TedEd's beautiful animation and narration. History seems like a woven story and science like a wonderful and beautiful oblivion. TedEd really does know how to teach and to make minder ponder.
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HellenicMind
The story is metaphorical, the villagers inhumanity and lack of hospitality to their fellow humans in need is what eventually destroyed them all.
Zeus symbolizes the universal idea-entity of Justice among other things.
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The story is metaphorical, the villagers inhumanity and lack of hospitality to their fellow humans in need is what eventually destroyed them all.
Zeus symbolizes the universal idea-entity of Justice among other things.
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education
_[ poetic soft voice]_ their branches forever entertwined.
_(gentle background music followed by a whiplash at max volume)_
ZEUS HAS A LONG HISTORY OF [ ]
Nicely done, but it could do without the whiplash at the end
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_[ poetic soft voice]_ their branches forever entertwined.
_(gentle background music followed by a whiplash at max volume)_
ZEUS HAS A LONG HISTORY OF [ ]
Nicely done, but it could do without the whiplash at the end
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Shwe
So Zeus committed genocide towards an entire village because they had valid concerns about harboring unknown strangers? Big yikes
Maybe this shows how far removed the gods were from mortal affairs and perspectives.
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So Zeus committed genocide towards an entire village because they had valid concerns about harboring unknown strangers? Big yikes
Maybe this shows how far removed the gods were from mortal affairs and perspectives.
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German
You can tell a story as a sequence of events, but when you add such lovely details as the one where their skin is becoming a tree, it becomes art and emotions. That is when this changed from a tale to a work of art!
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You can tell a story as a sequence of events, but when you add such lovely details as the one where their skin is becoming a tree, it becomes art and emotions. That is when this changed from a tale to a work of art!
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borgxxxboy
So lets see - Gods = sneaky, deceitful, vengeful, even greedy. They took your food, your supplies, even your home and made it theirs, then turned you into a tree.
Yeah, real nice god you've got there.
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So lets see - Gods = sneaky, deceitful, vengeful, even greedy. They took your food, your supplies, even your home and made it theirs, then turned you into a tree.
Yeah, real nice god you've got there.
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L. N.
I thought that Thanatos brought people to the underworld, and Hermes was just the messenger god. If Hermes also brought people down to the underworld, what is the difference between the duties of Thanatos?
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I thought that Thanatos brought people to the underworld, and Hermes was just the messenger god. If Hermes also brought people down to the underworld, what is the difference between the duties of Thanatos?
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Tim
People in the comments getting upset about Zeus flooding the village. Stop taking it literally for god's sake, it's a symbolic story! It's not the story that's flawed, but your naive interpretation of it.
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People in the comments getting upset about Zeus flooding the village. Stop taking it literally for god's sake, it's a symbolic story! It's not the story that's flawed, but your naive interpretation of it.
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Joy
These days it's probably a bad idea. Lots of criminals talk their way into people's homes in order to steal money and valuables. Most of the time it's elderly people who are victims of this practice.
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These days it's probably a bad idea. Lots of criminals talk their way into people's homes in order to steal money and valuables. Most of the time it's elderly people who are victims of this practice.
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Sir
While I don't approve of the god's actions, the story of the two being kind to passerbys and loving each other dearly to the very end was incredibly heartwarming.
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While I don't approve of the god's actions, the story of the two being kind to passerbys and loving each other dearly to the very end was incredibly heartwarming.
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Hello
-opens house to strangers
-strangers floods village and turns their house into a palace
-becomes trees and are never separated
What a time to be alive.
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-opens house to strangers
-strangers floods village and turns their house into a palace
-becomes trees and are never separated
What a time to be alive.
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education
3: 50 A classic Zeus punishment, letting everyone die, even children ignoring their all past good deeds, just because once they didnt helped 2 shady men.
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3: 50 A classic Zeus punishment, letting everyone die, even children ignoring their all past good deeds, just because once they didnt helped 2 shady men.
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