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.

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.

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.

After his death, his lyre was thrown into the river ; Zeus sent an eagle to retrieve the lyre, and ordered both of them to be placed in the sky.

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.

Zeus ordered Hephaestus to mold her out of earth as part of the punishment of mankind for Prometheus ' theft of the secret of fire, and all the gods joined in offering her " seductive gifts ".

Zeus ordered Hades to return her to Demeter, the goddess of the Earth and her mother.

Clotho, one of the three Fates, ordered by Zeus, brought the boy to life again ( she collected the parts of the body and boiled them in a sacred cauldron ), rebuilding his shoulder with one wrought of ivory made by Hephaestus and presented by Demeter.

When Zeus ordered Thanatos to chain up Sisyphus in Tartarus, Sisyphus tricked Thanatos by asking him how the chains worked and ended up chaining Thanatos ; as a result there was no more death.

In 167 BCE, Antiochus ordered an altar to Zeus erected in the Temple.

Keleos, informed the next morning by Metaneira, ordered the citizens to build a rich shrine to Demeter, where she sat in her temple until the lot of the world prayed to Zeus to make the world provide food again.

Salmoneus ' subjects were ordered to worship him under the name of Zeus.

In Book VIII, Zeus ordered all other deities to not interfere with the battle.

The politics are conjectural, but the myth reports that Zeus ordered Apollo to purify himself for the sacrilege and instituted the Pythian Games, over which Apollo was to preside, as penance for his act.

When it came time for Sisyphus to die, Zeus ordered Thanatos to chain Sisyphus up in Tartarus.

( Some texts say that Ixion and Hera were involved in only touching each other with their feet, while some say that Ixion started to perform cunnilingus on Hera until Zeus interrupted them and ordered them to stop ).

Zeus ordered Hermes to bind Ixion to a winged fiery wheel that was always spinning.

In some versions, they were allowed to roam freely around Argos, having become permanently calm, but in others, Eurystheus ordered the horses taken to Olympus to be sacrificed to Zeus, but Zeus refused them, and sent wolves, lions, and bears to kill them.

The Olympian Zeus was placed on the altar of the Temple, and throughout the country Jews were ordered, with the threat of execution, to sacrifice pigs to Greek gods ( the normal practice in the Ancient Greek religion ), desecrate the Shabbat, eat unkosher animals ( especially pork ), and relinquish their Jewish scriptures.

In some versions, they were allowed to roam freely around Argos, having become permanently calm, but in others, Eurystheus ordered the horses taken to Olympus to be sacrificed to Zeus, but Zeus refused them, and sent wolves, lions, and bears to kill them.

In response, Zeus tells Orestes of how he himself has ordered the universe and nature based on Goodness, and by rejecting this Goodness, Orestes has rejected the universe itself.

This fact is underscored by the delivery, minutes after the activation of the AI, of a communications terminal in the shape of the god Zeus, ordered a few years previously.

One commentator relates the prophecy to the actions of Caligula c. 40 AD when he ordered that a golden statue depicting himself as Zeus incarnate be set up in the Temple in Jerusalem.