greek and roman mythololgy

zeus

zeus is the and in , who rules as on . His name is with the first syllable of his roman equivalent jupiter 

Zeus is the child of and , 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 , by whom he is usually said to have fathered , , , and . At the of , his consort was said to be , by whom the states that he fathered . According to the , Zeus' first wife was , by whom he had . 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.

He was respected as a who was chief of the gods and assigned roles to the others: "Even the gods who are not his natural children address him as Father, and all the gods rise in his presence." He was with many foreign , permitting to observe "That Zeus is king in heaven is a saying common to all men". Zeus' symbols are the , , , and . In addition to his , the classical "cloud-gatherer" (Greek: Νεφεληγερέτα, Nephelēgereta) also derives certain iconographic traits from the cultures of the , such as the scepter.