Friedrich Welcker suggested that he symbolises the vain struggle of man in the pursuit of knowledge, and Salomon Reinach that his punishment is based on a picture in which Sisyphus was represented rolling a huge stone Acrocorinthus, symbolic of the labour and skill involved in the building of the Sisypheum.

S. Reinach suggests that the story that Salmoneus was struck by lightning was due to the misinterpretation of a picture, in which a Thessalian magician appeared bringing down lightning and rain from heaven ; hence arose the idea that he was the victim of the anger or jealousy of Zeus, and that the picture represented his punishment.

The Cross, symbolizing Jesus ' crucifixion on a cross, was not represented explicitly for several centuries, possibly because crucifixion was a punishment meted out to common criminals, but also because literary sources noted that it was a symbol recognised as specifically Christian, as the sign of the cross was made by Christians from very early on.

He stated in his 1st century BC work De architectura ( I. 1. 5 ) that the female figures of the Erechtheion represented the punishment of the women of Karyæ, a town near Sparta in Laconia, who were condemned to slavery after betraying Athens by siding with Persia in the Greco-Persian Wars.

The civil system was considered a check on the military system since beys ( who represented executive authority ) could not carry out punishment without the sentence of a qadi.

A coincidental drought in the region a year later helped the legend along ; the church convinced the peasants that it represented God's punishment for the killing.

Foucault argues that this theory of " gentle " punishment represented the first step away from the excessive force of the sovereign, and towards more generalized and controlled means of punishment.

A tent represented a " home " so was the most valuable of any individuals belongings, stealing this tent was a most grievous crime and the punishment was meted out in the extreme.

Herbert Daughtry of New York ; the name also " represented linking the current struggle against capital punishment with the historical struggle Blacks have waged for freedom, justice and equality.

In the Middle Ages we can find mixed varieties of Portuguese and Leonese throughout the border between Leon and Portugal, represented in texts as in the Foro de Castelo Rodrigo ( 13th century ); and although there is no documentation about the colonisation and repopulation in this place in the 13th century, there are several hypothesis of Galician citizens moved to protect the frontiers against Muslims as a punishment imposed by the Leonese king, or the delivery of the territories to various military orders by Alfonso IX and Fernando II.

In 2007, he represented a group in Calgary, Alberta which sought to have capital punishment reinstated in Canada.

On March 30, 2007, the judge dismissed some of the plaintiff's claims from the suit, including the claim that the law represented cruel and unusual punishment ; the rest of the case will go forward.

The use of corporal punishment at the college was represented among French speakers as an imposition of English culture and an attack on the liberties of the Jerseyman as enjoyed up until then at the college.

The passage in question has been represented in the modern literature either as claiming that Crantor actually visited Egypt, had conversations with priests, and saw hieroglyphs confirming the story or as claiming that he learned about them from other visitors to Egypt.

Methodism ( from-methodos, " pursuit of knowledge ") is a movement of Protestant Christianity represented by a number of denominations and organizations, claiming a total of approximately seventy million adherents worldwide.

Various religious denominations are represented in Gilbert, including 17. 26 % claiming to be Roman Catholic, 11. 12 % Protestant and 12. 6 % Mormon.

Barrès feared miscegenation of modern times, represented by Paris, claiming against Michelet that it jeopardized the unity of the Nation.

The creation of this village attracted controversy, with critics claiming it was created by alienating public parkland, while proponents maintained that it represented the renewal of an otherwise derelict inner-city area.

Jaynes was a strong advocate of this approach, claiming the maximum entropy distribution represented the least informative distribution.

There is a lot of what would later be called " Whig history " in the Commentaries ; the easy and contradictory assurance that England's current political settlement represented the optimal state of rational and just government, while claiming simultaneously that this optimal state was an ideal that had always existed in the past, despite the many struggles in England's actual history between overreaching kings and wayward Parliaments.

The isolation was represented by Franco's regime as a modern version of the Black Legend, with the most fanatical partisans claiming it was a machination of Jews and Freemasons against Catholic Spain.

For several decades this remained as the only known specimen of this species, with many disregarding its specific status and claiming it merely represented an aberrant adult Sowerby's beaked whale.

The Philippines and Indonesia strenuously objected to this development, with Indonesia claiming Malaysia represented a form of neocolonialism and the Philippines claiming Sabah as its territory.

Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov and Vladimir Toporov proposed a reconstruction of this mythical genealogy, claiming that Svarog, a deity of fire and the forge similar to the Greek Hephaestus, had two sons: Dažbog, who represented the fire in sky ( i. e., the Sun ), and Svarožič, who symbolised the flame on earth, in the forge.

Edward Hasted, the local historian of Kent, dismissed the story of the Biddenden Maids as a folk myth, claiming that the image on the cake had originally represented two poor women and that the story of the conjoined twins was " a vulgar tradition " invented to account for it, while influential historian Robert Chambers accepted that the legend could potentially be true but believed it unlikely.

In June, the Council changed tactics and set an illegal " deficit budget " which committed the Council to spend £ 30 million in excess of its income, claiming that the excess represented grant " stolen " by central government.

The fourth side of the Living Tribunal's head is a void, with the entity claiming that it could have represented the face of the cosmic entity the Stranger.

During the Gulf War, they represented American soldiers claiming conscientious objector status.

In 2007, Nicaraguan plantation workers, represented by Los Angeles-based personal injury lawyer Juan Dominguez, sued Dole and Dow Chemical Company, claiming the use of illegal pesticides such as the now banned Nemagon ( containing DBPC ) had made them sterile.

Speer's widow Tabitha, both represented by Donald Winder, launched a joint civil suit against the estate of Khadr – claiming that the father's failure to control son Omar resulted in the loss of Speers ' life and Morris ' right eye.

Only the management board could authorize a dissolution, and Tailevu was the only Province represented at the meeting, the Fiji Sun quoted him as claiming.

Key has a mixed voting record on social issues: he voted against the bill creating civil unions, claiming that this represented his constituents ' views but he supports them personally.

David Fidler presented the then Eight National News for 15 years until 2000, when he was forced to resign after being exposed by The Australian newspaper for falsely claiming he had represented Australia at the Olympics.

The newspaper, Offensiv, ran harsh criticism on the Social Democratic Party's policies, claiming that this party no longer represented the interests of the working class.

Already at the first meeting of that session, the Soviet member Koretsky protested that the People's Republic of China was not represented on the commission, claiming it represented the Chinese people and not the Republic of China, now ruling in Taiwan only.

Having represented his national team 112 times, he was the most capped player in the history of the Netherlands national team, until Edwin van der Sar surpassed him.

Ares was one of the Twelve Olympians in the archaic tradition represented by the Iliad and Odyssey, but Zeus expresses a recurring Greek revulsion toward the god when Ares returns wounded and complaining from the battlefield at Troy:

Later in some cults Zeus is united with the Aegean Great Goddess, who is represented by Hera, in a " holy wedding " ( hieros gamos ). At some point in their cultural history, the Myceneans adopted some Minoan goddesses like Aphaea, Britomartis, Diktynna and associated them with their sky-god.

Thus, since the hero Trophonius ( from Lebadea in Boeotia ) is called Zeus Trophonius, this can be represented in English ( as it would be in Latin ) as Jupiter Trophonius.

The Severe Classical style ( 500-450 BC ) is represented by the pedimental sculptures of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, ( 470-456 BC ).

Zeus relieved her grief by changing her into a nightingale, whose melancholy tunes are represented by the poet as Aëdon's lamentations about her child.

Apollonius Rhodius relates that she gave to the infant Zeus a beautiful globe ( sphaira ) to play with, and on some Cretan coins Zeus is represented sitting upon a globe.

Zeus relieved her grief by changing her into a nightingale, whose melancholy tunes are represented by the poet as Aëdon's lamentations about her child.

Triopas may be an aspect of the Argive Zeus ( sometimes represented with a third eye on his forehead ), or may be his human representative.

In a Greek line Zeus himself is represented as dancing.

" His royal emblem, an eight rayed star and the crescent moon, represented the dynasty's patron gods, Zeus Stratios, or Ahuramazda, and Men Pharmacou, a Persian form of the native moon goddess.

Cook noted that her myth " took on a Dionysiac colouring, Antiope being represented as a Maenad and Zeus as a Satyr ".

The Libyan Sibyl, named Phemonoe, was the prophetic priestess presiding over the Zeus Ammon Oracle ( Zeus represented with the horns of Ammon ) at Siwa Oasis in the Libyan Desert.

In some cases an attempt was made to give a more regular form to the original shapeless stone: thus Apollo Agyieus was represented by a conical pillar with pointed end, Zeus Meilicirius in the form of a pyramid.