Elsewhere in Classical Greece, Dione was relegated to a minor role by classical times, being made into an aspect of Zeus's more usual consort, Hera, but never at Dodona.

Calibos ( Neil McCarthy ), son of the sea goddess Thetis ( Maggie Smith ), is a young man engaged to marry Princess Andromeda ( Judi Bowker ), the daughter of Queen Cassiopeia ( Siân Phillips ) and heir to the rich city of Joppa ; but has destroyed Zeus's sacred flying horses ( excepting only Pegasus ).

When the city of Aegina was depopulated by a plague sent by Hera in jealous reprisal for Zeus's love of Aegina, the king Aeacus prayed to Zeus for the ants that were currently infesting an oak tree to morph into humans to repopulate his kingdom.

Her daughter, born from her head as she was from Zeus's, demigod Annabeth Chase is one of the principal characters.

In this interpretation, Athena was demoted to be only Zeus's daughter, never allowed the expression of motherhood.

Hera was known for her jealous and vengeful nature, most notably against Zeus's lovers and offspring, but also against mortals who crossed her, such as Pelias.

Archeologists John and Elizabeth Romer note that Pheidias was twice indicted for stealing some of the precious materials with which he made his two gigantic statues ; at Athens, he was accused of taking some of the ivory scales from the snake that stood beside Athena Parthenos ; at Olympia, of stealing some of the gold of Zeus's cloak.

King Sisyphus also betrayed one of Zeus's secrets by telling the river god Asopus of the whereabouts of his daughter Aegina ( an Asopides who was taken away by Zeus ) in return for causing a spring to flow on the Corinthian Acropolis.

Hera was very jealous of Zeus's relations with others and went out of her way to make the women suffer.

which became identified with Delos, which was the only piece of earth to give refuge to the fugitive Leto when, pregnant with Zeus's children, she was pursued by vengeful Hera.

In these, it was he that directed Hera's attention to Zeus's many affairs, including one of his most famous, that with the Theban princess Semele.

This punishment is especially galling since Prometheus was instrumental in Zeus's victory in the Titanomachy.

Her powers are similar to Wonder Woman's, though she carries a lasso that expels Zeus's lightning, which was given to her by her half-brother, Ares, the Greek god of war.

Therefore the Achaeans were required by duty to Zeus to avenge this transgression, which as a violation of xenia was an insult to Zeus's authority.

The aether was also known as Zeus's defensive wall, the boundary that locked Tartarus from the rest of the cosmos.

After Violet is discovered by Zeus's guards, both Robin and Violet manage to escape unharmed, as detectives that Robin was working with on the case raid the casino and arrest Zeus, who surrenders without a fight after an officer physically threatens him.

The Wheel of Fire originates in Greek Mythology as the punishment for Ixion, who was bound to a wheel of fire for lusting after Zeus's wife, Hera.

Worship of Zeus's son Heracles was also prominent, with coins featuring Heracles appear from the 5th century BC onwards.

Had Prometheus not provoked Zeus's wrath ( 44 – 47 ), " you would easily do work enough in a day to supply you for a full year even without working ; soon would you put away your rudder over the smoke, and the fields worked by ox and sturdy mule would run to waste.

Finally, just as Aeschylus gave Prometheus a key role in bringing Zeus to power, he also attributed to him secret knowledge that could lead to Zeus's downfall: Prometheus had been told by his mother Gaia of a potential marriage that would produce a son who would overthrow Zeus.

Prometheus cryptically tells them that he knows of a potential marriage that would lead to Zeus's downfall.

Hogan and Beefcake were once again victorious in what would be Zeus's last match in the WWF, and shortly afterwards he made a brief promotional appearance prior to the Royal Rumble, his last appearance with the WWF.

Lying with her, then, would result in Zeus's being overthrown just as he had overthrown his own father, Cronus.

Moreover a description of the nightingale ( 677 ) and Iris's threats of divine wrath ( 1240 ) are borrowed from Agamemnon and Pisthetaerus ' counter-threat to burn down Zeus's house ( 1246-7 ) appears to have been borrowed from Niobe.

This resulted in the fulfilment of Zeus's oath by Eurystheus rather than Heracles.

It is apparently not until Prometheus reveals this secret of Zeus's potential downfall that the two reconcile in the final play, Prometheus the Fire-Bringer or Prometheus Pyrphoros, a lost tragedy by Aeschylus.

The Hurrian myth “ The Songs of Ullikummi ”, preserved among the Hittites, is a parallel to Hesiod's Theogony ; the castration of Uranus by Cronus may be derived from the castration of Anu by Kumarbi, while Zeus's overthrow of Cronus and Cronus's regurgitation of the swallowed gods is like the Hurrian myth of Teshub and Kumarbi.

The lightning bolts, which became Zeus's main weapons, were forged by all three Cyclopes, in that Arges added brightness, Brontes added thunder, and Steropes added lightning.

In Hesiod's telling of Zeus's birth, when Great Gaia came to Crete and hid the child Zeus in a " steep cave ", beneath the secret places of the earth, on Mount Aigaion with its thick forests ; there the Cretan Kouretes ' ritual clashing spears and shields were interpreted by Hellenes as intended to drown out the infant god's cries, and prevent his discovery by his cannibal father Cronus.

The myth is also briefly referred to by Virgil, again without reference to Zeus's anger.

Accounts vary on how exactly they were destroyed: by flood, or Zeus's thunderbolt, or Poseidon's trident, or else Apollo assumed the shape of a wolf to kill them.

Fearful for his future but unwilling to provoke the wrath of the gods by killing Zeus's offspring and his own daughter, Acrisius cast the two into the sea in a wooden chest.

He is proclaimed king by a heavenly herald and he is presented with Zeus's sceptre by Sovereignty, a vision of loveliness.

Prometheus is then visited by Io, a human maiden pursued by a lustful Zeus ; the Olympian transformed Io into a cow, and a gadfly sent by Zeus's wife Hera has chased Io all the way from Argos.

Zeus's anger toward Prometheus is in turn responsible for mortal man's having to provide for himself ; before, all of man's needs had been provided by the gods.

Wronged by the love affair, Zeus's wife Hera in a jealous rage had transformed Callisto into a bear.

In the Theogony, Hesiod introduces Prometheus as a lowly challenger to Zeus's omniscience and omnipotence.

Here, the poet expands upon Zeus's reaction to the theft of fire.

Zeus's torture of Prometheus thus becomes a particularly harsh betrayal.

Moreover, Aeschylus anachronistically and artificially injects Io, another victim of Zeus's violence and ancestor of Heracles, into Prometheus ' story.

Eventually, Zeus's wife, Hera, became suspicious, and came from Mt.

There, she gave birth to Zeus's son Epaphus, and a daughter as well, Keroessa.

Zeus's parents were Kronos and Rhea who also were the parents of Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Hestia, and Demeter.

In Dionysiaca 7. 110 he classifies Zeus's affair with Semele as one in a set of twelve, the other eleven women on whom he begot children being Io, Europa, the nymph Pluto, Danaë, Aigina, Antiope, Leda, Dia, Alcmene, Laodameia, mother of Sarpedon, and Olympias.

Ovid and Hyginus both also recount the metamorphosis of the pair in and after Ceyx's loss in a terrible storm, though they both omit Ceyx and Alcyone calling each other Zeus and Hera ( and Zeus's resulting anger ) as a reason for it.