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Zeus (/ zj uː s /, Ancient Greek: Ζεύς) [a] is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion and mythology, who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus.. Zeus is the child of Cronus and Rhea, the youngest of his siblings to be born, though sometimes reckoned the eldest as the others required disgorging from Cronus's stomach.
The fertility god Priapus was usually considered to be Aphrodite's son by Dionysus, [142] [143] but he was sometimes also described as her son by Hermes, Adonis, or even Zeus. [142] A scholion on Apollonius of Rhodes 's Argonautica [ 144 ] states that, while Aphrodite was pregnant with Priapus, Hera envied her and applied an evil potion to her ...
The daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. Her symbols include the Moon, horse, deer, hound, she-bear, snake, cypress tree, and bow and arrow. Ares: Mars: God of war, violence, bloodshed and manly virtues. The son of Zeus and Hera, all the other gods despised him except Aphrodite. His Latin name, Mars, gave us the word "martial".
He is the son of Zeus and Hera, [62] and the lover of Aphrodite, [63] by whom, in the Theogony, he is the father of Deimos, Phobos and Harmonia. [64] His cult was relatively limited, [ 65 ] and his temples were located mostly on Crete and in the Peloponnese ; [ 66 ] he also often appeared alongside Aphrodite in cult. [ 67 ]
Several types of water deities conform to a single type: that of Homer's halios geron or Old Man of the Sea: Nereus, Proteus, Glaucus and Phorkys. These water deities are not as powerful as Poseidon, the main god of the oceans and seas. Each is a shape-shifter, a prophet, and the father of either radiantly beautiful nymphs or hideous monsters ...
The Greek goddess of love sometimes takes the name Dione: this may identify her with Aphrodite, though Homer calls Dione the mother of Aphrodite. Károly Kerényi notes in this context that the name Dione resembles the Latin name Diana, and is a feminine form of the name Zeus (cf Latin deus, god), hence meaning "goddess of the bright sky". [3]
Rhea/Cybele or Zeus Although Aphrodite assisted Melanion into tricking Atalanta into marrying him, Melanion did not thank her properly. So, when the couple was near a temple of either Zeus or Rhea/Cybele, Aphrodite inspired great passion for each other in them, leading them to couple inside the holy temple.
This spring, according to Pausanias [15] was behind the temple of Aphrodite and people said its water was the same as that of the spring Peirene, the water in the city flowing from it underground. Diodorus Siculus [14] who, as mentioned, places his Asopus in Phlius, gives him twelve daughters. Diodorus' list omits the Plataea and Boeotia ...