The first will contain the true or fabulous Events which are believed to have occurred either among the people itself, as its own adventures, and those of its princes and heroes, and which may therefore be called domestic ; or those of ancient or distant nations, handed down by tradition or brought home by voyagers, and these we may entitle foreign. […] Their mode of life exactly resembles that of the princes and nobles of the heroic ages. […] In his palace on Olympos Zeus lives after the fashion of a Grecian prince in the midst of his family ; altercations and quarrels occur between him and his queen, Hera383; and, though in general kind and affectionate to his children, he occasionally menaces or treats them with rigour384.