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Zeus (/ zj uː s /, Ancient Greek: Ζεύς) [a] is the chief deity of the Greek pantheon.He is a sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion and mythology, who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 March 2025. This is a list of notable offspring of a deity with a mortal, in mythology and modern fiction. Such entities are sometimes referred to as demigods, although the term "demigod" can also refer to a minor deity, or great mortal hero with god-like valour and skills, who sometimes attains divine ...
Castor, the mortal Dioscuri twin; after Castor's death, his immortal brother Pollux shared his divinity with him in order that they might remain together; Chrysippus (Χρύσιππος), a divine hero of Elis; Daedalus (Δαίδαλος), creator of the labyrinth and great inventor, until King Minos trapped him in his own creation
Son of Zeus and the mortal woman Semele. [105] He is the "most versatile and elusive" Greek deity, [106] and is the god who has received the greatest attention in modern scholarship. [107] He is the god of wine, intoxication, and ecstasy, [108] and is associated with theatre, eroticism, masks, and madness. [109]
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Xenophon portrays Socrates denying that Ganymede was the catamite of Zeus, instead asserting that the god loved him for his psychē, "mind" or "soul", giving the etymology of his name as ganu-"taking pleasure" and mēd-"mind." Xenophon's Socrates points out that Zeus did not grant any of his lovers immortality, but that he did grant immortality ...
Hades (Aides, Aidoneus, or Haidês), the eldest son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea; brother of Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter, and Hestia, is the Greek god of the underworld. [57] When the three brothers divided the world between themselves, Zeus received the heavens, Poseidon the sea, and Hades the underworld; the earth itself was divided ...
Zeus Labrandos (Λαβρανδευς; "Furious, Raging", "Zeus of Labraunda"): Worshiped at Caria, depicted with a double-edged axe , a Hellenization of the Hurrian weather god Teshub Laphystius ("of Laphystium"), Laphystium was a mountain in Boeotia on which there was a temple to Zeus.