tly influenced the lives of the people of this time. They ruled all parts of people's lives and were the gods that the people prayed to and listened to. The following passage explains the position of the gods: Gaea created life, but that was life, which was reigned by a brute force. There was no prize for honesty, nor punishment for crime. Guided by their natural aspiration towards the order and ordered society wise men created immortal gods, who governed people's lives, seeing and hearing everything, and enforcing the laws? The fear of such mighty gods forced the people to place them as far as possible, but also in beautiful settings in order to please them. So, the gods were placed at Mount Olympus and organized as a hierarchical society in which the "jet-set" consisted of twelve Olympian gods: Zeus, the supreme god, Hera, his lawful wife, Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Aphrodite, Hermes, Athena, Hephaestus, Ares, Artemis and Apollo. Mount Olympus is placed on the borders of Macedonia and Thessaly. In the central place at Olympus there was Zeus's palace with palaces of other great gods in the vicinity, and palaces of the less important gods further away. The gates of this city of gods were opening in the dawn and closing in the dusk. 1.In Oedipus Rex there are three of these main gods, that figure in the story. The first was Apollo, the son of Zeus and Leto. He was the god of music, playing a golden lyre. He was the god of the archer, far shooting with a silver bow and the god of healing who taught man medicine. He was the god of light and truth, who can not speak a lie. One of Apollo's more important daily tasks was to harness his chariot with four horses and drive the Sun across the sky. He was famous for his oracle at Delphi. People traveled Brozyna 3to it from all over the Greek world to divine the future. Apollo was probably the most important god in this play as he does the most to help Oedipus. In the beginning it is he w...
