Transcript Eagle (Zeus)

Eagle (Zeus)
English I – Louise S. McGehee
School
2004
(“Aquila”)
What the Eagle Looks Like
• The eagle has
shimmering white
feathers.
• It was a very big bird.
• Sometimes called the
“Thunder Bird” because it
received Zeus’ thunder
bolts from land.
• The eagle was also called
Aquila (Tucker).
(Kakerka)
A piece of Greek pottery of the
eagle eating Prometheus’ liver.
The Cultural/National Origin and How it
was regarded in its own culture
• Aquila the eagle is Zeus’
messenger and comes from
Greek mythology.
• We know Aquila is Greek
because Zeus was the Greek
god and Aquila was Zeus’
eagle (Linsell).
• This eagle is presented on
Greek coins, armor, pottery,
and art (Wise).
• The eagle is found in other
myths in other cultures, but it is
not presented in the same way
as it is in Greek mythology.
(Wise)
Greek Coin
Myths surrounding the eagle…
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“Dung beetle and the
Eagle” is a myth from
Aesop's Fables.
In this myth, the beetle
asks the eagle not to eat
a particular rabbit in
Zeus’s name.
But the eagle doesn’t
listen and the eagle eats
the rabbit anyway.
Then every time the
eagle lays its eggs the
beetle crushes them.
So the eagle gets upset
because she can’t lay
eggs without them being
destroyed (Gibbs).
(Google)
Continuing “Dung Beetle”
Myth…
• The eagle brings her eggs to Zeus, and Zeus agrees
to hold the eagle’s eggs in his lap.
• When the beetle found out what the eagle did, he
flew up to Mount Olympus and flew into Zeus’s face,
causing Zeus to jump up and knock the eggs out of
his lap.
• Then, the beetle told Zeus what the eagle did to the
rabbit so long ago, and Zeus punished the eagle.
• But, since Zeus did not want eagles to go extinct, he
tried to make the beetle stop smashing the eagles’
eggs, but he wouldn’t agree.
• So Zeus changed the season when Eagles laid their
eggs to when beetles would only stay right at ground
level (Gibbs).
(Zeus)
Another Myth surrounding the
eagle…
This second myth is tilted The Myth of Prometheus.
• It is about Prometheus and his brother Epimetheus. They did things
against Zeus’ will and, after a while, they gave man fire when Zeus
did not want to give fire to man yet.
• So, Zeus sent Pandora down with a box to give to Prometheus and
Prometheus gave it to his brother because he knew it was going to
be bad.
• And his brother opened it and the box contained all of the horrors of
the world. Since he opened the box he was tied down to a stone and
Zeus’ eagle would come and eat his liver (The Myth of Prometheus).
Continuing The Myth of
Prometheus…
• Overnight, Prometheus’ liver
would grow back and then the
eagle would do it again.
• Then Zeus sent Hercules to go
get Prometheus, and Hercules
bound him to a chain which
was attached to a rock, which
Prometheus had to carry with
him the rest of his life.
• This painting shows Zeus’s
eagle eating the liver out of
Prometheus's body (“The Myth
of Prometheus”).
(“Prometheus and the
eagle”)
How it links with any other myths
and stories
• In a Mesopotamian myth, people thought a lion-headed eagle
brought in the rain, and when the eagle would flap its wings that
would be the thunder. This myth relates with Zeus and the eagle
because as important as the eagle was in the Greek gods and
goddesses, the lion-headed eagle has as much stature as Aquila
did.
• Also, there is a Chinese myth about two people getting married and
the people trampling a magpie. The people did such a good job that
they were happy about it. This myth links with the Prometheus myth
because the people were fighting and harming the bird, whereas in
Prometheus’s myth, Aquila was harming Prometheus.
How it links with the modern world
• The eagle (Aquila) is
a constellation. In
Greek mythology it is
known as the storm
bird, and now it is
known as the
messenger of the
heavens (Aquila).
• The eagle is the
national bird of the
United States.
(“Eagle”)
Works Cited
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Crane, Gregory R. (ed.) The Perseus Project. 1997. 12 January 2004.
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“Constellions: Aquila – Doing his Master’s Bidding.” Hawaiian Astromical Society. 14
January 2004.
<http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/agl/>.
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