Zeus even trying to offer them sacrifices with the crowd. Two ancient inscriptions discovered in 1909 near Lystra testify to the worship of these two gods in that city. One of the inscriptions refers to the "priests of Zeus", and the other mentions "Hermes Most Great"" and "Zeus the sun-god". The second occurrence is in Acts 28:11: the name of the ship in which the prisoner Paul set sail from the island of Malta bore the figurehead "Sons of Zeus" aka Castor and Pollux. The deuterocanonical book of 2 Maccabees 6:1, 2 talks of King Antiochus IV (Epiphanes), who in his
Leda Richberg-Hornsby where she died of heart failure on August 25, 1939. Richberg-Hornsby is the subject of a one-act opera titled "Aleda or the Flight of the Suff Bird Women," celebrating her attempt to "bomb" President Wilson's yacht. The opera was commissioned by the Musicians of Ma'alwyck, a chamber music group based in upstate New York. The music and libretto were written by composer Max Caplan, who attended nearby Union College. The opera opened on June 8, 2018 in Glenville, New York. Leda Richberg-Hornsby Leda Richberg-Hornsby (November 1886 – August 25, 1939) was an American pilot and suffragist. She was the first