Eagle of Zeus - Chief Attribute and order Personificatio of Zeus, the Head of the Olympian Pantheon - pure bronze statue

Condition: New, Made in Greece.
Material: Pure Bronze
Height: 15 cm - 5,9 inches
Width: 14 cm - 5,5 inches
Length: 5,5 cm - 2,2 inches
Weight: 530 g
The eagle is a symbol for power, action, speed and perception, it has powers of intuition order, creativity and can balance power with grace all these because the eagle has sharp vision which gives it the ability to see hidden truths and spiritual principles. Around the world, the eagle has been adopted as an emblem.
The Eagle of Zeus was one of the chief attributes and personifications of Zeus, the head of the Olympian pantheon.
Eagles were considered the most prominent of birds in classical antiquity. Several legends attested to their unique qualities, such as Aristotle's claim that the sea eagle only raised the young who could look directly at the sun directly without their eyes watering, or Pliny the Elder's claim that they were immune to being struck by lightning, while the Geoponica claimed that they protected from hail.They were considered endowed with oracular properties, and a divine bird, as messenger of Zeus and herald of victory. In fact, Zeus himself is said to have transformed himself into an eagle on occasion. From these divine associations, the eagle came to be used as an emblem of several rulers, from the Achaemenids to Alexander the Great and the Diadochi, and finally of the Roman emperors.The eagle holding Zeus' lightning became the chief symbol (aquila) of the Roman legions.
According to Antoninus Liberalis, Periphas was a legendary king of Attica who was a just king, and a dutiful priest of Apollo. Zeus however became indignant because Periphas was revered and honoured as if he were Zeus himself, so Zeus wanted to destroy Periphas and his entire household. But Apollo interceded, and instead Zeus transformed Periphas into an eagle, making him king of all birds and guard of his sacred sceptre
In other accounts the eagle was in fact an ancient creation of the goddess Gaia. He appeared before Zeus at the start of the Titanomachy. Zeus took this to mean a good omen of victory, leading to him using the emblem of a golden eagle on his war standard: "...For so happy an omen, especially since victory did ensue, he made a golden eagle for his war standards and consecrated it to the might of his protection, whereby also among the Romans, standards of this kind are carried." — a translated excerpt from Fulgentius' "Mythologies" (Mythologiarum Libri III)
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