The scholarly tendency has too often weakened the conspicuous
novelty and originality that characterizes Zeus in the Iliad. This
book remedies that tendency and depicts the extraordinary figure of
Zeus: lord (or impersonation) of lightning and thunders, exclusive
master of human destiny --and therefore of human history-and chief
of Olympus. This unique personality endowed with polyvalent powers
represents itself the conflict between superhuman moral
indifference for mortal destiny and anthropomorphic feelings for
human beings: he both preordains the death of his son and weeps on
his demise. Zeus embodies the Mysterium tremendum. This new Zeus
cannot glance at the past image that the tradition painted of him
without smiling at its simplicity and disrespect: a parodic or
amusing tone surrounds him as he refers or is referred to aspects
of his traditional image. The great characters of the Poem give two
wise responses to Zeus, lord of destiny: "heroic death" or serene
acceptance. We, the readers, are expected to react in the same way.
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