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On the top of Larisa is a temple of Zeus, surnamed Larisaean, which has no roof;
the wooden image I found no longer standing upon its pedestal. There is also a
temple of Athena worth seeing. Here are placed votive offerings, including a wooden
image of Zeus, which has two eyes in the natural place and a third on its forehead.
This Zeus, they say, was a paternal god of Priam, the son of Laomedon, set up
in the uncovered part of his court, and when Troy was taken by the Greeks Priam
took sanctuary at the altar of this god. When the spoils were divided, Sthenelus,
the son of Capaneus, received the image, and for this reason it has been dedicated
here. The reason for its three eyes one might infer to be this. That Zeus is king
in heaven is a saying common to all men. As for him who is said to rule under
the earth, there is a verse of Homer which calls him, too, Zeus:
Zeus of the Underworld, and the august Persephonea.
(Hom. Il. 9.457)
The god in the sea, also, is called Zeus by Aeschylus, the son of Euphorion. So
whoever made the image made it with three eyes, as signifying that this same god
rules in all the three "allotments" of the Universe, as they are called. (Paus. 2.24.3-4)
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