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

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.

"... 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.

Because of her beauty, other gods feared that jealousy would interrupt the peace among them and lead to war, and so Zeus married her to Hephaestus, who was not viewed as a threat.

After the death of Amphitryon, Alcmene married Rhadamanthys, son of Zeus, and lived with him in exile at Ocaleae in Boeotia.

Uranus and Gaia prophesied to him that one of his children would overthrow him, so when he married Rhea, he made sure to swallow each of the children she birthed: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, Zeus ( in that order ).

Zeus married seven wives.

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.

Pseudo-Apollodorus ' Bibliotheke asserts that Thetis was courted by both Zeus and Poseidon, but she was married off to the mortal Peleus because of their fears about the prophecy by Themis ( or Prometheus, or Calchas, according to others ) that her son would become greater than his father.

Amphion and Zethus were the sons of Antiope, who fled in shame to Sicyon after Zeus raped her, and married King Epopeus there.

In Ovid's moralizing fable ( Metamorphoses VIII ), which stands on the periphery of Greek mythology and Roman mythology, Baucis and Philemon were an old married couple in the region of Tyana, which Ovid places in Phrygia, and the only ones in their town to welcome disguised gods Zeus and Hermes ( in Roman mythology, Jupiter and Mercury respectively ), thus embodying the pious exercise of hospitality, the ritualized guest-friendship termed xenia, or theoxenia when a god was involved.

Laodamia ( called Deidamia in that particular account ) is said to have married Evander, son of the first Sarpedon, and to have presented Evander with a son named Sarpedon ( in reality her son by Zeus ).

After the death of their parents, Aphrodite took care of Cleodora and Merope, Hera taught them to be proper women, and Athena made them accomplished ; but when Aphrodite went to see Zeus to get them married, storm winds carried them away to become handmaidens of the furies.

In order to prevent this from happening, Zeus married Thetis to Peleus, a mortal hero.

He married Playboy model Pia Reyes ; they had a son, Zeus.

The odd connection between Picus and Ninus reappears in John of Nikiû's Chronicle ( 6. 2f ) which relates that Cronus was the first king of Assyria and Persia, that he married an Assyrian woman named Rhea and that she bore him Picus ( who was also called Zeus ) and Ninus who founded the city of Ninus ( Nineveh ).

Diana and Steve were married by Zeus himself, before all of history was rewritten by the events of the Crisis on Infinite Earths.

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.

Zeus married Hera, but engaged in many relationships with goddesses and mortal women alike, angering his jealous wife.

She was married to Orchomenus, son of Zeus and the Danaid Isonoe, but had a son Minyas with Poseidon.

The dispute between the two goddesses was settled by Zeus ( or by Calliope on Zeus ' behalf ): Adonis was to spend one-third of every year with each goddess and the last third wherever he chose.

Ino, daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, had an end just as tragic as her siblings: Semele died while pregnant with Zeus ' child, killed by her own pride and lack of trust in her lover ; Agave killed her own son, King Pentheus, while struck with Dionysian madness, and Actaeon, son of Autonoe, the third sibling, was torn apart by his own hunting dogs.

Eighteen allusions to mythic Tiresias, noted by Luc Brisson, fall into three groups: one, in two episodes, recounts Tiresias ' sex-change and his encounter with Zeus and Hera ; a second group recounts his blinding by Athena ; a third, all but lost, seems to have recounted the misadventures of Tiresias.

Triopas may be an aspect of the Argive Zeus ( sometimes represented with a third eye on his forehead ), or may be his human representative.

3 1? 33 ), its chief temples and statues, its springs, its market-place and gymnasium, its place of sacrifice, the tomb of the hero Aristomenes and the temple of Zeus Ithomatas on the summit of the acropolis with a statue by the famous Argive sculptor Ageladas, originally made for the Messenian helots who had settled at Naupactus at the close of the third Messenian War.

One part is to Heracles, Zeus, and Apollo Healer, another is given up to heroes and to wives of heroes, the third is to Hestia and Hermes and Amphiaraus and the children of Amphilochus.

Of these Hera is third in command after Poseidon, creatress and ruler of indestructible matter, and the mother by Zeus of the heavenly gods, demi-gods and spirits.

Heroes received a libation from the second krater served, and " Zeus the Finisher " ( Zeus Teleios ) from the third, which was supposed to be the last.

This play is exceptional in that there are three waves of unwelcome visitors-the first wave comes before the walls of Cloudcuckooland have been completed, the second wave comes immediately after and the third wave comes as a delegation from Zeus.

And the third god of the triad this theology too celebrates as Protogonos ( First-Born ) Phanes, and it calls him Zeus the order of all and of the whole world, wherefore he is also called Pan ( παν: all ).

Kratos succeeds in doing this in the third game by assaulting Zeus with a barrage of punches, reducing him to a bloody corpse.

This was the third album in his Guitar Zeus series.

The Marneion, the temple sacred to Zeus Marnas, who was the local Hellenistic incarnation of Dagon, the patron of agriculture, a god who had been worshipped in the Levant since the third millennium BCE, was set afire with pitch, sulfur and fat ; it continued to burn for many days ; stones of the Marneion were triumphantly reused for paving the streets.

The band spent much of 2009 writing and recording their third full-length album, Coat of Arms, which was recorded by friends Carlin Nicholson and Mike O ' Brien, members of Zeus.

In the 2nd century CE Pausanias noted at Argos, in the temple of Zeus Larissaios, an archaic image of Zeus with a third eye in the center of his forehead, allegedly Priam's Zeus Herkeios purloined from Troy.

The twelve seated gods are taken to be the Olympians, they are one third taller than any other figure on the frieze and are arranged in two groups of six on diphroi ( backless ) stools, common forms of ancient furniture, with the exception of Zeus who is enthroned.

This perhaps foreshadows Zeus ' eventual reconciliation with Prometheus in the trilogy's third installment.

In the Hellenistic age ( third to first centuries BC ), ancient Armenian deities identified with the ancient Greek deities: Aramazd with Zeus, Anahit with Artemis, Vahagn with Hercules, Astghik with Aphrodite, Nane with Athena, Mihr with Hephaestus, Tir with Apollo.