2023年9月20日 · Zeus’ mythology contains countless tales of his affairs with goddesses, nymphs, and mortals of all sorts. From these various consorts (well exceeding 100!), Zeus had numerous children, including the gods Apollo, Artemis, Athena, and Hermes, the heroes Heracles and Perseus, and the beautiful queen Helen.

2023年8月31日 · Jupiter, like his counterpart Zeus, was known to be a promiscuous god. Though he was married to his sister Juno, he had numerous affairs with both goddesses and mortal women. Many of the stories of these indiscretions were imported from Zeus’ mythology, but others are unique to Roman sources.

2022年12月9日 · Mythology Origins and Background. The myth of Pandora begins with the Titan Prometheus. After the creation of humanity, Prometheus entered into an ill-advised battle of wits with Zeus. First, he tricked Zeus into accepting the less desirable parts of an animal as the gods’ share of a sacrificial offering.

2023年3月9日 · Mythology Origins: Rhea, Mother of the Gods. According to Hesiod’s Theogony—the eighth-century BCE epic explaining the origins of the gods and the Greek cosmic order—Rhea was the daughter of Gaia (“Earth”) and Uranus (“Heaven”).

2023年3月9日 · Mythology The Birth of Zeus. Hecate appears in some versions of the birth of Zeus. This myth tells of how the Titan Cronus, Zeus’ father, swallowed each of his children as soon as they were born, fearing they would someday overthrow him. But when his last child, Zeus, was born, Cronus’ wife Rhea decided to save the newborn’s life at all ...

2023年9月11日 · Mythology. Argus was the son of Zeus, the ruler of the cosmos, and Niobe, the mortal daughter of Phoroneus (himself an early Argive culture-hero). Niobe was the first of many mortal women whom Zeus took as a lover, and Argus was his first mortal son. The last of Zeus’ lovers was actually a descendant of Argus—Alcmene, mother of Heracles.

2023年3月10日 · Mythology Themis and the Olympians. Unlike many of the other Titans, Themis was very close with the Olympian gods, especially Zeus. In fact, Themis became Zeus’ second wife (before he married his sister Hera) and bore him several immortal children. In some traditions, Themis was also one of Zeus’ nurses when he was a newborn.

2023年7月3日 · Mythology Birth. Like many of the children Zeus had by mortal mothers, Perseus’ early years were tumultuous and unhappy. Before Perseus was born, Acrisius, the king of Argos, was warned that he would one day be killed by his grandson. Acrisius therefore imprisoned his only child, Danae, to prevent her from ever having a son.

2022年12月7日 · Mythology Origins. Leto was the daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe. Though her parentage is clear, her place of birth was a source of debate in antiquity: some sources said she was born on the island of Cos in the southeast Aegean, while others insisted that she came from the mysterious northern land of the Hyperboreans.

2023年5月20日 · Finally, in a tradition known from the Cypria, the egg was hatched not by Leda but by the goddess Nemesis, and only Helen—in this tradition the daughter of Zeus and Nemesis—emerged from the egg (though there may have been an obscure tradition in which Zeus and Nemesis were also the parents of the Dioscuri; see Eustathius on Homer’s Iliad ...