ENCYCLOPEDIA MYTHICA SEARCH YOU ARE HERE AREAS MYTHOLOGY EUROPE GREEK MYTHOLOGY ZEUS ARTICLE SEND COMMENT REFERENCES THE YOUNGEST SON CRONUS SUPREME RULER MOUNT OLYMPUS THE PANTHEON GODS UPHELD JUSTICE SPIRITUAL LEADER CELESTIAL GOD WEATHER GOD THE GREEK PEOPLE SOUTHWARD THE BALKANS CIRCA 2100 BCE ALWAYS ATTRIBUTE THE THUNDERBOLT LIGHTNING THEOCRITUS 265 BCE SOMETIMES CAUSED EPIC POEM THE ILIAD SENT NAME RELATED WORD MEANING THE EAGLE AEGIS AMALTHEIA ABOLITION PROTECTOR THE KING HIS FAMILY ONCE THE AGE GREEK KINGS DEMOCRACY CHIEF JUDGE CIVIC PEACE IN PLACE HESIOD THE LORD ALSO KNOWN AS SOTER POLITICAL FREEDOMS DUTIES ROLE WERE TO PROTECT SUMMON FESTIVALS GIVE PROPHECIES FAMOUS ORACLE NORTHWESTERN SUPREME DEITY CIVILIZED FATHER HOMER THEOGONY USURPED THE KINGDOM THE IMMORTALS TALE THE TITANS THAT ONE CHILDREN PREVENT HAPPENING NEWBORN CHILDREN HADES WIFE RHEA GAIA WRAPPED STONE SWADDLING CLOTHES INFANT THINKING NEWBORN BABY MEANWHILE BABY TAKEN IN A CAVE MOUNT DICTE THE DIVINE GOAT SUCKLED RAISED YOUNG FATHERS THE HELP COMPELLED THE FIVE PREVIOUSLY HELP METIS GAVE EMETIC VOMIT BROTHERS AND SISTERS THE REVOLT THE DYNASTY BROTHERS DIVIDED THE UNIVERSE GAINING POSEIDON THE SEA THE UNDERWORLD HAD TO HEAVENLY KINGDOM ASSAULTS THE OFFSPRING TYPHON THE TWIN BROTHERS THE ALOADAE TRIED GAIN ACCESS STACKING MOUNT OSSA MOUNT MOUNT PELION THE TWINS FAILED ATTEMPT OVERTHROW TARTARUS REGION GODDESS OF PRUDENCE FIRST LOVE VAIN ESCAPE IN THE END UNION ATHENA BEAR WHOSE HEARING REASON THIS WAS CONTINUE CARRY THE CHILD BIRTH HIMSELF HERA JEALOUS ABILITY FEMALE SPITE HEPHAESTUS SPLIT OPEN THE HEAD FULLY BORE HEBE EILEITHYIA LIAISONS GODDESSES RAPED DEVIOUS MEANS LETO THE HIDDEN ONE FORTH APOLLO ONCE AGAIN JEALOUSY FORCING ROAM THE EARTH IN SEARCH OF SHELTER OR AT THE ONLY PLACE WAS TO THE ISLE DELOS THE MIDDLE THE AEGEAN LEGEND FLOATING ISLAND BESIDES HUMAN SPARTAN QUEEN BEAUTIFUL THE EGG LEDA TWINS CASTOR AND POLYDEUCES CLYTEMNESTRA HELEN OF TROY PRINCESS DANAE SHOWER THE HERO PERSEUS ABDUCTED PHOENICIAN PRINCESS DISGUISED THE ISLAND CRETE RHADAMANTHYS SARPEDON LOVER TROJAN PRINCE EAGLE LEGENDS BELIEVE IT THE PRINCE CHARM UNPRECEDENTED POWER PROMISED SEMELE REVEAL ORDER THE UNION THUNDER LIGHTENING GODDESS OF JUSTICE THE SEASONS AFFAIR COUPLED WITH NINE ENTERTAINED THE OTHER GODS CELESTIAL CHOIR DEITIES INTELLECTUAL CHARITES GRACES EURYNOME TO LIVE MORAL TEMPLES HIS HONOR SANCTUARIES MAGNIFICENT TEMPLE OF ZEUS THE GOLD IVORY STATUE ENTHRONED SCULPTED PHIDIAS AS ONE THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD THE OLYMPIC GAMES NEMEAN GAMES HONOR ATHENS THE MARRIAGE GAMELIA CELEBRATIONS ONE BEING MIDDLE AGED YOUTHFUL LOOK REGAL IMPOSING ARTISTS REPRODUCE THE POWER POSE ABOUT TO THROW BOLT STATUES DOUBT ARTEMISIUM THOUGHT SEEN ATHENS NATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL ZOOS PAGE FONT SIZE RESET LAST MMIX ALL RIGHTS RESERVED