Guys!! I just realized something.
Ok, so in « Thunder Bringer », the first line is « Pride is a damsel in distress, hiding away where only I can undress her. »
Apart from the annoyance provoked by Zeus talking not-obviously-consensual relationship.
The word pride in Antic Greece is translated by two concepts, the well-known one which is hubris, taking oneself for a god, defying the gods and the laws. The second one, I forgot the exact term, but it’s the notion of right, deserved pride. And to deserve to be proud of something, you have to keep your ethos (persona, the defining characteristics of what you are) clear, which implies shame about whatever deed you can do that goes against this ethos. To have righteous pride you need shame.
In the line, Zeus is saying he’s the only one who can have pride, be proud.
He’s implying that Odysseus can’t have pride, cause he doesn’t have shame.
Cause he betrayed who he is, and isn’t shameful.
He’s alluding to Mutiny, to Monster, and pointing to the end of the song.
Odysseus has no shame anymore, he is the monster.
Odysseus betrayed his ethos of captain, and is forbidden to be proud.
