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Goddess Nike: Motivational Speech To Zeus
- Published_at:2013-10-06
- Category:Education
- Channel:Goddess Nike
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- description: In this scene, Goddess Nike delivers a rousing speech to Zeus urging him to defend his Olympic kingdom against Typhoeus, the fearsome dragon-headed god, and the Giants, in a battle known as the Gigantomachy. Emphatically read by Nancy Beard. Featuring the rapturous music of Jim Steinman. From Nonnos of Panopolis' epic poem Dionysiaca: "When the monster Typhoeus laid siege to Olympos, all the gods except for Zeus fled. He was alone, when Nike came to comfort him, scoring the high paths of the air with her shoe. She had the form of Leto; and while she armed her father, she made him a speech full of reproaches with guileful lips: 'Lord Zeus! Stand up as champion of your own children! Let me never see Athena mingled with Typhon, she who knows not the way of a man with a maid! Make not a mother of the unmothered! Fight, brandish your lightning, the fiery spear of Olympos! Gather once more your clouds, Lord of the Rain! For the foundations of the steadfast universe are already shaking under Typhon's hands: the four blended elements are melted! Demeter has renounced her harvests, Hebe has left her cup, Ares has thrown down his spear, Hermes has dropped his staff, Apollo has cast away his harp, and taken a swan's form, and flown off on the wing, leaving his winged arrows behind! Aphrodite, the goddess who brings wedlock to pass, has gone a wandering, and the universe is without seed. The bonds indissoluble of harmony are dissolved, leaving behind his generative arrows, the adorner of brides, he the all-mastering, the unmastered! And your fiery Hephaistos has left his favourite Lemnos, and dragging unruly knees, look how slowly he keeps his unsteady course! See a great miracle - I pity your Hera, though she hates me sure enough! What - is your begetter to come back into the assembly of the stars? May that never be, I pray! Even if I am called a Titaness, I wish to see no Titan lords of Olympos, but you and your children. Take your lordly thunderbolt and champion chaste Artemis.' And with those words, Nike led Zeus into glorious battle." http://goddessnike.com
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