In his most recent posting on Classical Inquiries, Gregory Nagy explores, in the general context of Greek mythmaking, the actions of Zeus that have catastrophic affect when inflicted upon humanity:
The question is: what happens when humanity itself is threatened with either flooding or conflagration on a cosmic scale? To express such cosmic afflictions in Greek terms, I have in mind here situations where all of humanity is being threatened with either cataclysm or ecpyrosis. So, to rephrase the question: what happens when Zeus or the gods in general choose to afflict humans with the alternatives of cataclysm or ecpyrosis? …
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