Lightning Zeus

This article is about the statue of Zeus on Kephallonia. For other uses, see Statue of Zeus.

Lightning Zeus

Lightning Zeus was a gigantic marble statue of the Greek god Zeus, located on Mount Ainos in Kephallonia.

History

At some point during his time, the Athenian general Themistokles visited the statue, documenting his impressions of it onto a papyrus and hiding the papyrus near the statue.

Decades later during the Peloponnesian War, the Spartan misthios Kassandra visited the statue at the request of Artaxerxes I, a former and blinded King of Persia who was seeking refuge in Megara. While exploring the statue, Kassandra recovered Themistokles' papyrus and returned to Artaxerxes to report her findings.

Trivia

• In the game, the statue was depicted as such to mirror the geophysical phenomena of Mount Ainos, which was known for its thunderstorms.
• While climbing the-naked- statue the character makes a funny comment "I better don´t climb here" when reaching  the "Special Parts" of Zeus. 
• In real history, no such statue of this size or description existed in Kephallonia, or anywhere in Greece for that matter. The statue within the game is a reference to the 2010 film Clash of the Titans, which features a nearly identical statue of Zeus.

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  Dangling off the holiest of royal danglers.

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed: Odyssey