Still, even in the earliest record Zeus had grandeur. In Iliad Agamemnon prays: " Zeus, most glorious, most great, God of the storm-cloud, thou that dwellest in the heavens."
He demanded too not only sacrifices for men but right action.
The Greek Army at Troy is told " Father Zeus never helps liars or those who break their oaths.
The two ideas of him to low and the high persisted side by side for along time.
His breastplate was the aegis awful to behold; his bird was the eagle his three the oak.
His oracle was Dodona in the land of oak tree.
The god's will was revealed by the rustling of the oak leaves which the priests interpreted.