sentences:  This was found in Lucian's "The Gods in Council", in which Momus takes a leading role in a discussion on how to purge Olympus of foreign gods and barbarian demi-gods who are lowering its heavenly tone.At the start of the Renaissance, Leon Battista Alberti wrote the political work "Momus or The Prince" (1446), which continued the god's story after his exile to earth.Since his continued criticism of the gods was destabilizing the divine establishment, Jupiter bound him to a rock and had him castrated.