Zeus (Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World)

Greek Mythology

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Zeus was said to have the other gods create the first woman, Pandora.

He was the one responsible for giving her a box she was not to open. This is the well known legend of Pandora's box and where it originated.

Those that treated him poorly would receive punishments from the god, but those who treated him with kindness and respect he rewarded. In the case of Philemon and Baucis, he was so impressed by their generosity and kindness that he blessed them with long life, and at the time of their deaths, turned the pair into oak trees to stand outside one of his many temples.

Zeus has also been involved in the quests of many heroes and in the affairs of many mortals, sometimes helping them, sometimes placing harsh punishments upon them. Their names are listed below. Click on them to go to their page and view Zeus' involvement. He was said to have had a lot of affairs with women both mortal and immortal while married to Hera, most, if not all, ending with him being the father of a son or daughter, many of his mortal children turning out to be either heroes or kings. Click here to view the various relationships of Zeus, including love interests, children and enemies.

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10. Hermes

Greece mythology. But Hercules lived on among the gods. Achilles was the Greeks' finest warrior in the Trojan War. His mother, the nymph Thetis , dipped him in the River Styx to make him invulnerable in battle — except for his heel, where she gripped the baby. During the Trojan War, Achilles achieved fame by slaying Hector outside the city gates. But he didn't have much time to savor his conquest.

Theseus was the Athenian hero who liberated his city from the tyranny of King Minos of Crete. Every year, the city had to send seven men and seven women to Crete to be devoured by the monstrous Minotaur. Theseus vowed to defeat Minos and restore Athens' dignity.

⚡ Zeus :: Greek God of the Sky and Thunder, King of the Gods

With the help of the creature's half-sister, Ariadne, Theseus was able to enter the labyrinth where the monster lived, slay the beast and find his way out again. A crafty and capable warrior, Odysseus was the king of Ithaca.

During that time, Odysseus and his men faced numerous challenges, including being kidnapped by a cyclops , menaced by sirens, and finally shipwrecked. Odysseus alone survives, only to face additional tests before finally returning home.

Perseus was the son of Zeus, who disguised himself as a shower of gold of impregnate Perseus' mother Danae. After slaying Medusa, Perseus rescued Andromeda from the sea serpent Cetus and wed her. He later gave the severed head of Medusa to the goddess Athena. Poets and artists from ancient times to the present have derived inspiration from Greek mythology and have discovered contemporary significance and relevance in Classical mythological themes.

The 5th-century- bce Greek historian Herodotus remarked that Homer and Hesiod gave to the Olympian gods their familiar characteristics. Few today would accept this literally. In the first book of the Iliad , the son of Zeus and Leto Apollo , line 9 is as instantly identifiable to the Greek reader by his patronymic as are the sons of Atreus Agamemnon and Menelaus , line In both cases, the audience is expected to have knowledge of the myths that preceded their literary rendering.

Little is known to suggest that the Greeks treated Homer, or any other source of Greek myths, as mere entertainment, whereas there are prominent Greeks from Pindar to the later Stoa for whom myths, and those from Homer in particular, are so serious as to warrant bowdlerization or allegorization.

The fullest and most important source of myths about the origin of the gods is the Theogony of Hesiod c. The elaborate genealogies mentioned above are accompanied by folktales and etiological myths. The orthodox view treats the two poems as quite different in theme and treats the Works and Days as a theodicy a natural theology.

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It is possible, however, to treat the two poems as a diptych, each part dependent on the other. The Theogony declares the identities and alliances of the gods, while the Works and Days gives advice on the best way to succeed in a dangerous world, and Hesiod urges that the most reliable—though by no means certain—way is to be just.

Fragmentary post-Homeric epics of varying date and authorship filled the gaps in the accounts of the Trojan War recorded in the Iliad and Odyssey ; the so-called Homeric Hymns shorter surviving poems are the source of several important religious myths. Many of the lyric poets preserved various myths, but the odes of Pindar of Thebes flourished 6th—5th century bce are particularly rich in myth and legend. The works of the three tragedians— Aeschylus , Sophocles , and Euripides , all of the 5th century bce —are remarkable for the variety of the traditions they preserve.

Mythic Birthplace of Zeus Said Found

In Hellenistic times —30 bce Callimachus , a 3rd-century- bce poet and scholar in Alexandria, recorded many obscure myths; his contemporary, the mythographer Euhemerus , suggested that the gods were originally human, a view known as Euhemerism. Apollonius of Rhodes , another scholar of the 3rd century bce , preserved the fullest account of the Argonauts in search of the Golden Fleece. In the period of the Roman Empire , the Geography of Strabo 1st century bce , the Library of the pseudo-Apollodorus attributed to a 2nd-century- ce scholar , the antiquarian writings of the Greek biographer Plutarch , and the works of Pausanias , a 2nd-century- ce historian, as well as the Latin Genealogies of Hyginus, a 2nd-century- ce mythographer, have provided valuable sources in Latin of later Greek mythology.

The discovery of the Mycenaean civilization by Heinrich Schliemann , a 19th-century German amateur archaeologist, and the discovery of the Minoan civilization in Crete from which the Mycenaean ultimately derived by Sir Arthur Evans , a 20th-century English archaeologist, are essential to the 21st-century understanding of the development of myth and ritual in the Greek world.

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