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Zeus was not faithful to his wife and sister Hera, and had many relationships from which many children were born. Since Zeus believed that there were too many people populating the earth, he envisioned Momus [9] or Themis, [10] who was to use the Trojan War as a means to depopulate the Earth, especially of his demigod descendants. [11]
The House of Hades (2013) and Wrath of the Triple Goddess (2024), novels by Rick Riordan; Troy: Fall of a City (2018) a miniseries in which Hecuba is portrayed by Frances O'Connor; Bluey (2020) episode 2, season 2 "Hammerbarn", Hecuba features as Bingo's gnome husband; Hecuba is also referenced in other works: In Hamlet, a play by William ...
Sister and wife of Zeus. Being the goddess of marriage, she frequently tried to get revenge on Zeus' lovers and their children. Her symbols include the peacock, cuckoo, and cow. Poseidon: Neptune: God of the seas, water, storms, hurricanes, earthquakes and horses. The middle son of Cronus and Rhea. Brother of Zeus and Hades.
In the Legends of Tomorrow episode "Helen Hunt", Helen is portrayed by Israeli-American model and actress Bar Paly. In the episode, Helen is an anachronism appearing in 1930s Hollywood. She lands a job as an actress and unintentionally starts a war between two film studios. The Legends travel to the 1930s and try to get Helen back to the Bronze ...
She is the older sister of Cronus, who was also her consort, and the mother of the five eldest Olympian gods (Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Poseidon, and Zeus) and Hades, king of the underworld. When Cronus learnt that he was destined to be overthrown by one of his children like his father before him, he swallowed all the children Rhea bore as soon as ...
Back on Mount Olympus, Queen of the Gods Hera, Zeus’ wife (and sister!), seems to tolerate Zeus’ neuroses. Zeus’ son Dionysus (The God of Pleasure) had a human mother until Hera turned her ...
News of Troy's fall quickly reached the Achaean kingdoms through phryctoria, a semaphore system used in ancient Greece. A fire signal lit at Troy was seen at Lemnos, relayed to Athos, then to the look-out towers of Macistus on Euboea, across the Euripus straight to Messapion, then to Mount Cithaeron, Mount Aegiplanctus and finally to Mount Arachneus, where it was seen by the people of Mycenae ...
When Menelaus was away from home, Paris seduced Helen into running away with him. In the Iliad, Helen notes how she had followed Paris to Troy, [11] and Apollodorus describes the pair taking valuables together. [12] Some sources claim Paris had to raid Menelaus's house to steal Helen from him, but others say he was first welcomed in.