Loyality and devotion to family or the devine another name had to do with antigone

The last two lines in a shakespearean sonnet are always without rhyme a rhymed couplet a metaphor humorous

What is the meaning of the word checking as it is used in this sentence from the second paragraph of the passage?

At last it was settled by lot that zeus should reign supreme in heaven, whilst aides governed the lower world, and poseidon had full command over the sea, but the supremacy of zeus was recognized in all three kingdoms, in heaven, on earth (in which of course the sea was included), and under the earth. zeus held his court on the top of mount olympus, whose summit was beyond the clouds; the dominions of aides were the gloomy unknown regions below the earth; and poseidon reigned over the sea. what element of a myth does this excerpt contain? an example of an historical event a lesson about human behavior an explanation of an event in nature a story about gods or goddesses