Egyptian Maat and Hesiodic Metis.

Metis appears twice in the Hesiodic corpus as an anthropomorphic goddess, who is courted and then ingested by Zeus. In the Theogony this narrative ends with the permanent stabilization of his monarchic rule over gods and men. We argue that the myth of Metis and Zeus most probably derives--directly o...

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Published in:	Mnemosyne Vol. 57; no. 2; pp. 177 - 209
Main Authors:	Faraone, Christopher, Teeter, Emily
Format:	Literary Criticism
Published:	Brill Academic Publishers 2004
Subjects:	Zeus (Greek deity) Egyptian goddesses Maat (Egyptian deity) Métis Mythology
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