Zeus is dead
Where is now that eagle? where now that swan? where now is Zeus himself? He has grown old with his feathers; for as yet he does not repent of his amatory exploits, nor is he taught continence. The fable is exposed before you: Leda is dead, the swan is dead. Seek your Jupiter. Ransack not heaven, but earth. The Cretan, in whose country he was buried, will show him to you,—I mean Callimachus, in his hymns:— “For thy tomb, O king, The Cretans fashioned!” For Zeus is dead, be not distressed, as Leda is dead, and the swan, and the … Continue reading Zeus is dead
