Hera was jealous of Zeus ' giving birth to Athena without recourse to her ( actually with Metis ), so she gave birth to Hephaestus without him.

Zeus rescued the heart and gave it to Semele to impregnate her ; or, the heart was saved, variously, by Athena, Rhea, or Demeter.

Certain versions imply that Zeus gave Semele the heart to eat to impregnate her.

Zeus gave her the gift to be able to take her eyes out to rest, and then put them back in.

Since Zeus could not undo what she had done, he gave him the gift of prophecy.

It was this kneeling position of Heracles when prayed to his father Zeus that gave the name Engonasin ("", derived from ), meaning " on his knees " or " the Kneeler "

In Hesiod's Zeus-centered cosmology, Hera gave birth to Hephaestus as revenge at Zeus for his asexual birthing of Athena.

" Latona for her intrigue with Zeus was hunted by Hera over the whole earth, till she came to Delos and brought forth first Artemis, by the help of whose midwifery she afterwards gave birth to Apollo.

He lived at Knossos for periods of nine years, where he received instruction from Zeus in the legislation which he gave to the island.

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.

***" Island which Zeus, the lord of Olympus gave to Phersephona ; he nodded descent with his flowers hair.

Since she instead gave the infant Zeus to Adamanthea to nurse in a cave on a mountain in Crete, it is clear that Adamanthea is a doublet of Amalthea.

Rhea gave birth to Zeus in Crete, handing Cronus a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes, which he promptly swallowed.

In some versions, Metis gave Cronus an emetic to force him to disgorge the babies, or Zeus cut Cronus ' stomach open.

Then Zeus released the brothers of Cronus, the Gigantes, the Hecatonkheires and the Cyclops, who gave him thunder and lightning, which had previously been hidden by Gaia.

Though the Greek myth of Semele was localized in Thebes, the fragmentary Homeric Hymn to Dionysus makes the place where Zeus gave a second birth to the god a distant one, and mythically vague:

According to Suetonius, the Roman Emperor Caligula " gave orders that such statues of the gods as were especially famous for their sanctity or for their artistic merit, including that of Zeus at Olympia, should be brought from Greece, in order to remove their heads and put his own in their place.

But however this may be, he was from the earliest times considered to be a great divinity throughout Greece, and was invoked in prayers, sacrifices, on taking oaths, & c., and the oracular Zeus at Dodona usually added to each oracle he gave, the command to offer sacrifices to Achelous.

Rhea, Zeus ' mother and Cronus ' wife, deceived Cronus by giving him a stone wrapped to look like a baby instead of Zeus, whom she instead gave to Adamanthea to nurse.

In gratitude, Phrixus sacrificed the ram to Zeus and gave the king the golden fleece of the ram, which Aeëtes hung in a tree in the holy grove of Ares in his kingdom, guarded by a dragon that never slept.

Apollonius Rhodius relates that she gave to the infant Zeus a beautiful globe ( sphaira ) to play with, and on some Cretan coins Zeus is represented sitting upon a globe.

Both Zeus and Apollo favored him, and Zeus gave him his oracular talent.

She therefore ( as mentioned at the Kypria according to Proclus as part of a plan hatched by Zeus and Themis ) tossed into the party the Apple of Discord, a golden apple inscribed Kallisti – " For the most beautiful one ", or " To the Fairest One " – provoking the goddesses to begin quarreling about the appropriate recipient.

Zeus sent the goddesses to Paris, who judged that Aphrodite, as the " fairest ", should receive the apple.

St. Paul appears as the preaching missionary ( 13: 16 ; 14: 8-9, 19-20 ), whence the Lystrans regarded him as Hermes, St. Barnabas as Zeus ( 14: 12 ).

Insignia are mainly heads of mythological characters or depictions of mythological beasts arranged in a symbolic motif: Apollo, Zeus, Janus, Athena, Hermes, griffin, gorgon, sphinx, hippocamp, bull, snake, eagle, or other creatures who had symbolic significance.

Zeus then commanded Hermes to kill Argus, which he did by lulling all one hundred eyes to sleep.

**** Maia ( partner of Zeus and mother of Hermes )

She is persuaded to release him by Odysseus ' great-grandfather, the messenger god Hermes, who has been sent by Zeus in response to Athena's plea.

Washed ashore on the island of Calypso, he was compelled to remain there as her lover until she was ordered by Zeus via Hermes to release Odysseus.

In Prometheus Bound, this dynamic is transposed: Prometheus becomes the benefactor of humanity, while every character in the drama ( except for Hermes, a virtual stand-in for Zeus ) decries the Olympian as a cruel, vicious tyrant.

Zeus sends the god Hermes to escort King Priam, Hector ’ s father and the ruler of Troy, into the Greek camp.

Many of these names appearing in the Linear B inscriptions can be found later in classical Greece like Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Athena, Hermes, Eileithyia and Dionysos, but the etymology is the only evidence of the cults.

Zeus commanded Hermes to kill Argus ; Ovid added the detail that he lulled all hundred eyes to sleep, ultimately with the story of Pan and Syrinx.

The most important deities were: Zeus, the supreme god and ruler of the sky ; Hera, his wife and goddess of marriage ; Athena, goddess of wisdom ; Poseidon, god of the sea ; Demeter, goddess of the earth ; Apollo, god of the sun, law, reason, music and poetry ; Artemis, goddess of the moon, the hunt and the wilderness ; Aphrodite, goddess of love ; Ares, God of war ; Hermes, god of commerce and medicine, and Hephaestus, god of fire and metalwork.

Determined to re-attain the throne, Atreus enlists the aid of Zeus and Hermes, and has Thyestes banished from Mycenae.

In the version put forth by Euripides in his play Helen, Hera fashioned a likeness of Helen ( eidolon, εἴδωλον ) out of clouds at Zeus ' request, Hermes took her to Egypt, and Helen never went to Troy, spending the entire war in Egypt.

The main Greek gods were the twelve Olympians, Zeus, his wife Hera, Poseidon, Ares, Hermes, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Demeter, and Hades.

* Hercules: Hercules, Megara, Hades, Pain and Panic, Philoctetes, Pegasus, the Muses, Zeus, Hera, Hermes, The Fates, Nessus, the Hydra, and Bacchus.

Zeus, discovering the crime, hurled a thunderbolt at the Titans, turning them to ashes, but Persephone ( or in some accounts Athena, Rhea, or Hermes ) managed to recover Zagreus ' heart.

Corinna, Pindar's contemporary, in a damaged fragment, mentions nine daughters of Boeotian Asopus: Aegina, Thebe, and Plataea abducted by Zeus ; Corcyra, Salamis, and Euboea abducted by Poseidon ; Sinope and Thespia ( who has been dealt with above ) abducted by Apollo ; and Tanagra abducted by Hermes.

Sophocles wrote an Inachos, probably a satyr play, which survives only in some papyrus fragments found at Oxyrhyncus and Tebtunis, Egypt ; in it Inachos is reduced from magnificence to misery through the unrequited love of Zeus for his daughter Io ; Hermes wears the cap of darkness, rendering him invisible, but plays the aulos, to the mystification of the satyrs ; Argos and Iris, as a messenger of Hera both appear, a " stranger " turns Io into a heifer at the touch of a hand, and at the end, apparently, the satyrs are freed from their bondage, to become shepherds of Inachos.

He was the primordial king in the Peloponnesus, authorized by Zeus: " Formerly Zeus himself had ruled over men, but Hermes created a confusion of human speech, which spoiled Zeus ' pleasure in this Rule ".

The parentage of Pan is unclear ; in some myths he is the son of Zeus, though generally he is the son of Hermes or Dionysus, with whom his mother is said to be a nymph, sometimes Dryope or, in Nonnus, Dionysiaca ( 14. 92 ), Penelope of Mantineia in Arcadia.

In Zeus ' battle with Gaia, Aegipan and Hermes stole back Zeus ' " sinews " that Typhon had hidden away in the Corycian Cave.

To free Io, Zeus had Argus slain by Hermes.