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Zeus is the ruler of the Olympian gods. He is also known as Jupiter and Jove (both Roman). His attributes in iconography include the lightning bolt, the eagle, and the sceptre.

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Texts

Birth

• Apollodorus 1.1.5, Apollodorus 1.2.1

• Hesiod: Theogony 453

Domain

• Apollodorus 1.2.2

• Pausanias 2.24.4

• Homeric Hymn 23.1

• Homer: Iliad 15.184

Sexual Encounters and Offspring

• Alcmena -> Heracles: Apollodorus 2.4.8, Hesiod: Theogony 938

• Callisto -> Arcas: Pausanias 8.3.6, Apollodorus 3.9.1

• Danae -> Perseus: Apollodorus 2.4.2

• Demeter -> Persephone: Hesiod: Theogony 901

• Dione -> Aphrodite: Apollodorus 1.3.1, Homer: Iliad 5.363

• Europa -> Minos, Sarpedon, and Rhadamanthys: Apollodorus 3.1.2

• Ganymede: Apollodorus 3.12.3, Homeric Hymn 5.177, Homer: Iliad 5.239

• Hera -> Hebe, Ilithyia, and Ares: Apollodorus 1.3.2, Hesiod: Theogony 901, Homeric Hymn 12.1

• Io -> Epaphus: Apollodorus 2.1.4

• Leda -> Pollux and Helen or Castor and Pollux: Apollodorus 1.8.3, Apollodorus 3.10.6, Homeric Hymn 17.1, Homeric Hymn 33.1

• Leto (Latona) -> Artemis and Apollo: Apollodorus 1.4.2, Hesiod: Theogony 901, Homeric Hymn 27.1

• Maia -> Hermes: Apollodorus 3.10.2, Hesiod: Theogony 938, Homeric Hymn 4.1

• Metis -> Athena: Apollodorus 1.3.6, Pindar: Olympian 7.32, Hesiod: Theogony 885, Hesiod: Theogony 929j, Homeric Hymn 3b.305, Homeric Hymn 28.1

• Mnemosyne -> Muses -> Hesiod: Theogony 29, Hesiod: Theogony 901

• Semele -> Dionysus: Apollodorus 3.4.4 , Hesiod: Theogony 938, Homeric Hymn 1.1

Other Encounters

• Actaeon: Apollodorus 3.5.1

• Aesculapius: Apollodorus 3.10.4

• Aphrodite: Homeric Hymn 5.33

• Castor and Pollux: Apollodorus 3.12.1

• Death: Plato: Gorgias 523b Plato: Gorgias 523e

• Giants and Typhon: Apollodorus 1.6.2, Hesiod: Theogony 820, Hesiod: Theogony 853

• Hephaestus: Apollodorus 1.3.6

• Hera:
  • Pausanias 9.3.1
  • Homer: Iliad 1.531, Homer: Iliad 1.568
  • Homer: Iliad 14.155, Homer: Iliad 14.193, Homer: Iliad 14.242, 14.270, Homer: Iliad 14.312, Homer: Iliad 14.352
  • Homer: Iliad 15.5, Homer: Iliad 15.34, Homer: Iliad 15.78
  • Homer: Iliad 5.720, Homer: Iliad 5.764
  • Homer: Iliad 16.430, Homer: Iliad 16.439

• Lycaon: Apollodorus 3.8.2

• Prometheus: Hesiod: Theogony 507, Hesiod: Theogony 545, Hesiod: Theogony 565, Hesiod: Theogony 585, Hesiod Works and Days 42, Hesiod Works and Days 59, Hesiod Works and Days 83

• Salmoneus: Apollodorus 1.9.8

• Thetis and Hera Homer: Iliad 1.493, Homer: Iliad 1.593, Homer: Iliad 1.568, Homer: Iliad 2.1

• Thetis: Apollodorus 3.13.5

• Titans: Hesiod: Theogony 617, Hesiod: Theogony 654, Hesiod: Theogony 687, Hesiod: Theogony 729

Relationship to Poseidon

Also see accounts of birth above.

• Homer: Iliad 8.200

• Homer: Iliad 15.155

• Homer: Iliad 15.184

Also see Zeus images.

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