Does Zeus Exist An Analysis According to the Theogony by Hesiod

             Hesiod was one of the oldest known Greek poets, and perhaps the
             oldest. He lived at Ascra in Boeotia (situated in central Greece) in the
             late 8th century BC (West 1999). The earlier of his two surviving poems,
             the Theogony, provides a systematic genealogy of the gods from the
             beginning of the world together with an account of their violent struggles
             before the present order was established. Even from a contemporary
             perspective, the Theogony provides compelling evidence that Zeus, in fact,
             existed during this ancient period in human history, and continues to exist
             to this day. This paper will provide an analysis of Hesiod's the Theogony
             to demonstrate these points, followed by a summary of the research in the
             Religious views are a highly subjective and personal affair, and they
             can manifest themselves in a wide variety of ways and intensities. In this
             regard, the Olympian gods were perhaps as just as "real" and "alive" to the
             ancient Greeks as the God of Abraham is to billions of Christians,
             Moslems, and Jews, the Enlightened One is to tens of millions of Buddhists,
             and the numerous Hindu gods are to the billions of Hindus today.
             Certainly, the Holy Bible exemplifies the manner in which the
             historical records have been modified over the millennia to reflect the
             changing attitudes about religious views, and what is "correct" at one
             point in history may not be acceptable during another. Therefore, the
             ancient Greeks may well have been describing one and the same type of
             religious beliefs or shared consciousness about a past event or events that
             assumed the form of the Olympian pantheon. For instance, there are a
             number of striking similarities between how the gods are viewed by the
             ancient Greeks and contemporary Westerners that support this view. For
             instance, just as followers today believe that the God of Abraham has been,
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