Uploaded June 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Something I get asked all the time: How can you worship the Greek Gods in the modern day? Isn't Zeus a predator?

One of the most pervasive memes online concerns Zeus' status as a serial predator. But is He? I take a deep dive into scholarly research on the metaphor of myth and get to the root of the problem.


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Sources:



jstor.org/stable/269836
jstor.org/stable/639529
jstor.org/stable/26308104
jstor.org/stable/1509722
jstor.org/stable/26308161
jstor.org/stable/1562169
jstor.org/stable/40890984