Zeus appeared to her disguised as Artemis, or in some stories Apollo, gained her confidence, then took advantage of her ( or raped her, according to Ovid ).

Denying the immortality of Zeus, then, was the lie of the Cretans.

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

But then, says Cleanthes, Zeus uses the fire to " straighten out the common logos " that travels about ( phoitan, " to frequent ") mixing with the greater and lesser lights ( heavenly bodies ).

Zeus swore to give Semele whatever she wanted and was then obliged to follow through when he realized to his horror that her request would lead to her death.

Gaia then took Zeus and hid him deep in a cave beneath the Aegean Mountains.

Zeus then married his third wife Eurynome, who bore the three Charites ( Graces ): Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia.

"... then Zeus the father created the third generation of mortals, the age of bronze ...

Cronus then placed them back in Tartarus, where they remained, guarded by the female dragon Campe, until freed by Zeus.

Zeus drove Ixion from Mount Olympus and then struck him with a thunderbolt.

Zeus forced Cronus to disgorge the other children in the reverse order in which they had been swallowed, the oldest becoming the last, and youngest: first the stone, which was set down at Pytho under the glens of Parnassus to be a sign to mortal men, then the rest.

She then demanded that Zeus reveal himself in all his glory as proof of his godhood.

Hera then induces Semele to ask Zeus to come to her as a god, she dies, and Zeus seals the unborn baby up in his thigh.

Zeus then ordered Thanatos, god of death, to chain King Sisyphus down below in Tartarus.

37-" The Egyptians, then, having been taught to worship Antinous, will, if you compare him with Apollo or Zeus, endure such a comparison, Antinous being magnified in their estimation through being classed with these deities ; for Celsus is clearly convicted of falsehood when he says, ' that they will not endure his being compared with Apollo or Zeus.

They bring great advantage to those who venerate them ; but if someone dishonors them, then they go to Zeus and ask that Até be sent against that person.

Zeus then led his released brothers and sisters in rebellion against the Titans.

He then said to Zeus " If you think that you are so clever, make your son whole and un-harmed.

Zeus then sent a lightning bolt down and a storm, killing all of Odysseus ' men, while their doom was portended by the meat writhing and lowing on the spits.

She then placed it on the mirrored shield called Aegis and she gave it to Zeus.

She then raised her hands and said a prayer, which was heard by Zeus who took pity on her and turned her into a tree.

In Homer's Iliad, an Oneiros is pictured as summoned by Zeus, receiving from him spoken instructions, and then going to the camp of the Achaeans and entering the tent of Agamemnon to urge him to warfare.

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.

For this act, Zeus suspended Apollo from the night sky and commanded Apollo to serve Admetus, King of Thessaly for a year.

Eventually Zeus intervened and commanded Marpessa to choose between her mortal lover and the god.

Zeus then commanded Apollo to turn their faces around and pulled the skin tight and stitched it up to form the navel which he chose not to heal so Man would always be reminded of this event.

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.

**** 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.

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.