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CODieK slash Special Offer. This is the History of the World Podcast with me Chris Hasler.

And you're listening to volume three, the Classical World.

Episode 16, Classical Greek Culture. culture. So, Greek gods, lots of them. First there were the Titans,

the Olympics.

Central to the Olympic gods is Zeus.

Zeus has come up a number of times in this podcast and this tells us two things.

Firstly that Zeus was prominent among the pantheon of Greek gods and that he was at the forefront of Greek minds and myths.

Secondly, it demonstrates how widespread and far-reaching the Greek culture was, and to a degree still is. The Greeks not only touched

many societies, but they also influenced them with their advanced academia.

The mythological first king of Crete, King Minos, was the son of Zeus.

The most beautiful woman in the world, Helen of Troy, also known as Helen of Sparta, mentioned

in the works of Homer, is the daughter of Zeus.

The mythological Greek hero Heracles, Romanized as Hercules, whose name is

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