The gods

Part1 Zeus

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Zeus is the child of Cronus and Rhea, the youngest of his siblings to be born, though sometimes reckoned the eldest as the others required disgorging from Cronus's stomach. In most traditions, he is married to Hera, by whom he is usually said to have fathered Ares, Eileithyia, Hebe, and Hephaestus

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Zeus is the child of Cronus and Rhea, the youngest of his siblings to be born, though sometimes reckoned the eldest as the others required disgorging from Cronus's stomach. In most traditions

he is married to Hera, by whom he is usually said to have fathered Ares, Eileithyia, Hebe, and Hephaestus.

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At the oracle of Dodona, his consort was said to be Dione,[10] by whom the states that he fathered Aphrodite

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According to the , Zeus' first wife was Metis, by whom he had Athena.[14] Zeus was also infamous for his erotic escapades. These resulted in many divine and heroic offspring, including Apollo, Artemis, Hermes, Persephone, Dionysus, Perseus, Heracles, Helen of Troy, Minos, and the Muses.[8]

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He was respected as an allfather who was chief of the gods[15] and assigned roles to the others:[16] "Even the gods who are not his natural children address him as Father, and all the gods rise in his presence

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He was equated with many foreign weather gods, permitting Pausanias to observe.

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In addition to his Indo-European inheritance, the classical "cloud-gatherer" (Greek: Νεφεληγερέτ

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also derives certain iconographic traits from the cultures of the ancient Near East, such as the scepter.

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