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Persephone; raped by her uncle Hades and in Orphic tradition by her father Zeus disguised as a snake or as Hades himself. This resulted in the birth of Zagreus and Melinoë. Philomela; raped by her brother-in-law Tereus. Procris; raped by Minos. Rhea; raped by her son Zeus. Tyro; raped by Poseidon in the form of her beloved, the river-god Enipeus.
Book 6 – Demeter, upset by Zeus's attention, goes to Astraeus, god of prophecy, who casts Persephone's horoscope, telling of her imminent rape by Zeus. Demeter conceals Persephone in a cave, but Zeus sleeps with her in the form of a snake, and she bears Zagreus. At Hera's bidding, the Titans kill Zagreus and chop him up. In anger, Zeus floods ...
Persephone is known as the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, the goddess of agriculture. She is kidnapped by Hades and becomes the queen of the Underworld, forced to live with him for six months and ...
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.
Zeus, it is said, permitted Hades, who was in love with the beautiful Persephone, to abduct her as her mother Demeter was not likely to allow her daughter to go down to Hades. Persephone was gathering flowers, along with the Oceanids , and the goddesses Pallas Athena and Artemis , as the Homeric Hymn says, in a field when Hades came to abduct ...
Zeus also fathered a daughter, Persephone, with his other older sister, Demeter. [11] However, the orphic sources claim that Persephone was instead the daughter of Zeus and his mother Rhea. [12] Nyx and Erebus were also married siblings. The sea god Phorcys fathered many offspring by his sister Ceto. Among the many lovers of Zeus, some were his ...
In an alternative version of the story told by the Roman mythographer Hyginus, Dionysus was actually the son of Zeus and Persephone, [188] who was torn apart by the Titans. [188] Zeus rescued Dionysus's heart, ground it up, and mixed it into a potion, which he gave to Semele to drink, causing her to become pregnant with the infant who had been ...
Persephone keeps Dionysus from Zeus after calling him out on his attempt to abandon the baby. She and Hades are currently caring for Dionysus until they can find a better home for the infant. Zeus says Dionysus is the god of wine, and "some other stuff". He physically ages at a rapid rate.