When Zeus abducted Aegina, he took her to Oenone, an island close to Attica.

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 ).

According to Ovid, it was Jupiter ( Zeus ) who took the form of Diana ( Artemis ) so that he might evade his wife Juno ’ s detection, forcing himself upon Callisto while she was separated from Diana and the other nymphs.

According to many versions of the story, Zeus took the form of a swan and raped or seduced Leda on the same night she slept with her husband King Tyndareus.

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

Sometimes the young and beautiful nymph Echo would distract and amuse Zeus ' wife, Hera, with long and entertaining stories while Zeus took advantage of the moment to ravish the other mountain nymphs.

Zeus took pity on Ixion and invited him to a meal on Olympus.

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.

There was a fourth figure, Elektra's daughter, Harmonia, whom Cadmus took away as a bride, as Zeus had abducted Europa.

Aëdon now took pity upon the sufferings of her husband, and when her relations were on the point of killing her for this weakness, Zeus changed Polytechnos into a pelican, the brother of Aëdon into a whoop, her father into a sea-eagle, Chelidonis into a swallow, and Aëdon herself into a nightingale.

He took up a spear to fight in the war after his bow was broken by Zeus.

He was entrusted with the building of the temple of Zeus Atabyrius in the citadel, and took advantage of his position to make himself despot.

He took the prize of Achilleus, because Zeus and Moira predetermined his decision.

: But as to the plan of Shinar, in the country of Babylonia, Hestiaeus mentions it, when he says thus: " Such of the priests as were saved, took the sacred vessels of Zeus Enyalius, and came to Shinar of Babylonia.

Alexander's prophet Aristander took this as a sign that Zeus was pleased and would grant Alexander many victories.

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.

Some forms of Greek mythology associated the constellation with the tame white bull, in some versions Zeus in disguise, that seduced Europa and took her to Crete ( Minos ), whereas others associate it with the white bull that fathered the Minotaur.

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.

Greek settlers at Cyrene made contact with the oasis around the same time ( 7th century BC ), and the oracle temple of Amun ( Greek: Zeus Ammon ), who, Herodotus was told, took the image here of a ram.

Other recordings of the Thera eruption spawned Greek myths, namely the Deucalion, in which Poseidon, god of the sea, took revenge upon Zeus by inundating Attica, Argolis, Salonika, Rhodes and the coast of Lycia ( Turkey ) to Sicily.

A programme of extensive repairs, including to the Temple of Zeus, and new building, took place.

These doubts initially took the form of the so-called " Zeus Problem.

The Roman temple of Jupiter Taurus peripteral with six columns on the short sides and ten on the long sides, and a brick staircase, took its name from a statue of Zeus found at the excavation in 1978.

In Homer's Iliad, when Alcmene was about to give birth to Heracles, Zeus announced to all the gods that on that day a child, descended from Zeus himself, would be born who would rule all those around him.

Then looking at him darkly Zeus who gathers the clouds spoke to him :' Do not sit beside me and whine, you double-faced liar. To me you are the most hateful of all gods who hold Olympos. Forever quarrelling is dear to your heart, wars and battles .… And yet I will not long endure to see you in pain, sinceyou are my child, and it was to me that your mother bore you. But were you born of some other god and proved so ruinouslong since you would have been dropped beneath the gods of the bright sky.

On the night the twins Heracles and Iphicles were to be born, Hera, knowing of her husband Zeus ' adultery, persuaded Zeus to swear an oath that the child born that night to a member of the House of Perseus would become High King.

Zeus is the child of Cronus and Rhea, and the youngest of his siblings.

The childhood of Zeus is an important theme in Greek religion, art and literature, but there are only rare ( or dubious ) depictions of Jupiter as a child.

Cronus sired six children by Rhea: Hestia, Hades, Demeter, Poseidon, Hera and Zeus in that order, but swallowed them all as soon as they were born except Zeus, since he had learned from Gaia and Uranus that he was destined to be overcome by his own child as he had overthrown his own father.

In Hesiod's telling of Zeus's birth, when Great Gaia came to Crete and hid the child Zeus in a " steep cave ", beneath the secret places of the earth, on Mount Aigaion with its thick forests ; there the Cretan Kouretes ' ritual clashing spears and shields were interpreted by Hellenes as intended to drown out the infant god's cries, and prevent his discovery by his cannibal father Cronus.

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.

When confronted about this by Hercules, Zeus revealed that he specifically chose Alcmene to be Hercules ' mother because he, unfortunately, knew that he could not be there for his son and knew that she would provide him with the love, strength, and support he deserved, thus revealing he had put more thought into Hercules ' birth than any other child he ever had ).

Zeus had intended Zagreus to be his heir, but a jealous Hera persuaded the Titans to kill the child.

Like the infant Zeus in Cretan myth, the child Zagreus was entrusted to the Titans who distracted him with toys.

Zeus implanted the still-beating heart into the mortal woman Semele, from whom the child was eventually born again, despite Hera's intervention.

Zeus relieved her grief by changing her into a nightingale, whose melancholy tunes are represented by the poet as Aëdon's lamentations about her child.

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.

It is notable that tradition as it comes down to us does not record any children arising from a union of gods with Thebe, Plataea, Thespia or Tanagra and only Diodorus ( 4. 72. 1 ) mentions the otherwise unknown sons Phaiax, son of Poseidon by Corcyra, and Syrus sprung from Apollo by Sinope and that this child of Sinope is opposed by a conflicting tradition that Sinope tricked Zeus, Apollo and Halys and remained a virgin.

He explains that worship of Athena was retained as a cult because it was too strong to be suppressed, but she was recast as a child of Zeus in new myths, even given the previously incomprehensible role of justifying what would have been a horrific crime against the old religious customs.

Sometimes: " justice "), but most writers considered Astraea the child of Zeus and Themis.

Her sisters spread the report that she had only endeavored to conceal unmarried sex with a mortal man, by pretending that Zeus was the father of her child, and said that her destruction was a just punishment for her falsehood.

Zeus relieved her grief by changing her into a nightingale, whose melancholy tunes are represented by the poet as Aëdon's lamentations about her child.

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