Question

Though in Hesiod it is Zeus and the other gods that create humans, who is said to have created humans in a later tradition?

Answer 1

In later tradition, Zeus is said to have created humans according to the Orphic tradition.

Step-by-step explanation:

In later tradition, it was Zeus who was said to have created humans. Although in the earlier tradition of Hesiod's Theogony, it is Zeus and the other gods who are said to have created humans, the later Orphic tradition tells a different story. According to the Orphic tradition, after Zeus killed the Titans with his thunderbolt, mankind emerged from their soot and was therefore partially divine in origin.

This occurred after Zeus killed the Titans with his thunderbolt for their deed of slaughtering and eating Dionysos, whom Zeus had fathered with Persephone. Consequently, mankind is considered to have a partial divine origin, according to this later Orphic tradition.