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In Greek mythology, she is queen of the twelve Olympians and Mount Olympus, sister and wife of Zeus, and daughter of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. One of her defining characteristics in myth is her jealous and vengeful nature in dealing with any who offended her, especially Zeus's numerous adulterous lovers and illegitimate offspring.
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.His name is cognate with the first syllable of his Roman equivalent Jupiter.
In Greek mythology, Eris (Ancient Greek: Ἔρις, romanized: Eris, lit. 'Strife') is the goddess and personification of strife and discord, particularly in war, and in the Iliad (where she is the "sister" of Ares the god of war).
Here's everything to know about the Greek mythology behind the characters. Zeus. ... Hera is Zeus' wife — and also his sister — and is the queen of the gods, as well as the goddess of ...
Metis was an Oceanid nymph, one of the 3000 daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys, [5] and a sister of the Potamoi (river-gods), which also numbered 3000. Metis gave her cousin Zeus a potion to cause his father Cronus , the supreme ruler of the cosmos, to vomit out his siblings their father had swallowed out of fear of ...
In Greek tradition, Demeter is the second child of the Titans Rhea and Cronus, and sister to Hestia, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Like her other siblings except Zeus, she was swallowed by her father as an infant and rescued by Zeus.
Wronged by the love affair, Zeus' wife Hera in a jealous rage had transformed Callisto into a bear. [11] Arcas is the eponym of Arcadia , where Maia was born. [ 4 ] The story of Callisto and Arcas, like that of the Pleiades, is an aition for a stellar formation, the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor , the Great and Little Bear.
Alcyone and Ceyx Transformed into Halcyons. In Greek mythology, Alcyone (or dubiously Halcyone) [1] (/ æ l ˈ s aɪ ə ˌ n i, h æ l ˈ s aɪ ə ˌ n i /; Ancient Greek: Ἀλκυόνη, romanized: Alkyónē) and Ceyx (/ ˈ s iː ɪ k s /; Κήϋξ, Kḗÿx) were a wife and husband who incurred the wrath of the god Zeus for their romantic hubris.