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

Die Hard with a Vengeance ( 1995 ) featured a scene where villain Simon Peter Gruber ( Jeremy Irons ) required NYPD Lt. John McClane ( Bruce Willis ) to wear a sandwich board reading " I hate niggers " while standing on a street corner in predominantly-black Harlem, resulting in McClane meeting Zeus Carver ( Samuel L. Jackson ) as Carver rescued McClane from being attacked by neighborhood toughs.

She was killed by Zeus when he rescued the Cyclopes for help in the battle with the Titans.

Creiddylad has been compared to the Greek springtime goddess Persephone, who is similarly abducted by an admirer ( the underworld god Hades ), rescued by an intervening character ( Zeus ), and reunited with her family ( her mother Demeter ), then cursed to repeat the experience every year.

Alternatively, Lysithea is another name for Semele, daughter of Cadmos and Harmonia ; sister to Agave, Autonoë, Ino, and Polydorus ; mother of Dionysos by Zeus ( and who became Thyone after being rescued from Hades by her divine son ).

In Hellenistic astrology, the sign of the ram was mythologically associated with the golden winged ram that rescued Phrixos and his sister Helle from the altar where they were to be offered as a sacrifice to Zeus.

" The tension between reason and passion is symbolized by his character's relationship with the gods, as in Hecuba's prayer, answered not by Zeus, nor by the Law of Reason, but by brutal Menelaus as if speaking on behalf of the old gods, and most famously in Bacchae, where the god Dionysus savages his own converts.

In another version, Dionysus was originally the son of Zeus by either Demeter or Persephone.

Zeus used the heart to recreate Dionysus and implant him in the womb of Semele — hence Dionysus became known as " the twice-born ".

The mystic Persephone is further said to have become by Zeus the mother of Dionysus, Iacchus, or Zagreus.

In the reformulation of Greek mythology expressed in the Orphic Hymns, Dionysus and Melinoe are separately called children of Zeus and Persephone.

Of course, though Zeus no longer marries, he still has affairs with many other women, such as Semele, mother of Dionysus, Danae, mother of Perseus, Leda, mother of Castor and Polydeuces and Helen, and Alkmene, the mother of Heracles, who married Hebe.

Kouretes also presided over the infancy of Dionysus, another god who was born as a babe, and of Zagreus, a Cretan child of Zeus, or child-doublet of Zeus.

Semele (;, Semelē ), in Greek mythology, daughter of the Boeotian hero Cadmus and Harmonia, was the mortal mother of Dionysus by Zeus in one of his many origin myths.

When Pausanias visited Thebes in the 2nd century AD, he was shown the very bridal chamber where Zeus visited her and begat Dionysus.

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:

Some accounts say that he was reassembled and resurrected by Demeter ; others, that Zeus fed his heart to Semele in a drink, making her pregnant with Dionysus.

In Orphic tradition, Persephone was the mother of Zagreus ( Dionysus ) by Zeus ; in the Iliad, Persephone's consort Hades, king of the underworld, is called Zeus Katachthonios, " Underground Zeus ".

Most of Semele's family, including her sisters Ino, Autonoe, and Agauë, refused to believe that Dionysus was the son of Zeus, and the young god is spurned in his home.

Semele, during her pregnancy with Dionysus, was destroyed by the sight of the splendor of Zeus.

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 the Mystery cults of the highly syncretic Hellenistic era Pan is made cognate with Phanes / Protogonos, Zeus, Dionysus and Eros.

In Greek mythology, Iacchus ( also Iacchos, Iakchos ) () is an epithet of Dionysus, particularly associated with the Mysteries at Eleusis, where he was considered to be the son of Zeus and Demeter.

Some authors believe it is possible that Zalmoxis is Sabazius, the Thracian Dionysus or Zeus.

Inside the chest was an image of Dionysus, made by Hephaestus and given to the Trojans by Zeus.

One version of the Orpheus story is that he is then killed by a thunderbolt thrown by Zeus, while another is that he is dismembered by the women of Dionysus.

All accounts agree, however, that she was the daughter of Zeus and Leto and that she was the twin sister of Apollo.

In what he called " first philosophy " or metaphysics, Aristotle did intend a theological correspondence between the prime mover and deity ( presumably Zeus ); functionally, however, he provided an explanation for the apparent motion of the " fixed stars " ( now understood as the daily rotation of the Earth ).

When Zeus was about to be born, however, Rhea sought Uranus and Gaia to devise a plan to save him, so that Cronus would get his retribution for his acts against Uranus and his own children.

The Colossus of Rhodes was brought to life by Zeus to destroy the protagonist Kratos, however, Kratos destroys the Colossus.

Mortals, however, cannot look upon Zeus without incinerating, and she perished, consumed in lightning-ignited flame.

This, however, is changed in Hercules ' last appearance on Xena: Warrior Princess, when he is forced to kill Zeus with the rib of Cronus to protect Xena's baby, however, Zeus uses his last breath to say he is proud of Hercules.

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.

A fragment of Pindar, however, tells that the Moirai were already present at the nuptials of Zeus and Themis ; that in fact the Moirai rose with Themis from the springs of Okeanos the encircling World-Ocean and accompanied her up the bright sun-path to meet Zeus at Mount Olympus.

Rhea, however, managed to hide her child Zeus, by tricking Cronus into swallowing a rock wrapped in a blanket instead.

Previous record holders include Gibson, Titan and George however the current record holder is a black Great Dane named Zeus who stands at the shoulder.

At the request of Apollo, however, Zeus metamorphosed him into an eagle, and his wife Phene likewise into a bird.

With the Greek revival of the 19th century, however, Greek names began to be used more often, and " Zeus " may be more familiar than " Jove " as the name of the supreme god of the classical pantheon.

In Zeus ' turn to make the gift, however, Aeschylus could not report that the oracle was given directly to Apollo, who had not yet been born, Robertson notes, and thus Phoebe was interposed.

Zeus, however, sent Hermes to distribute shame and justice equally among human beings.

She was married to Locrus, but had no children ; Zeus, however, who carried her off, became by her, on mount Maenalus in Arcadia, the father of Opus, Aethlius and Aetolus.

In Greek mythology, Calliope ( ; Kalliopē " beautiful-voiced ") was the muse of epic poetry, daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne, and is believed to be Homer's muse, the inspiration for the Odyssey and the Iliad .< ref > This belief in the goddess's identify, however, really cannot be proved from the text of the < i > Iliad </ i >, because there is no evidence as to the referent of θεά ( goddess ).

Zeus, however, took pity and transformed her into a beautiful bee.