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In later accounts of Zeus's affair with Semele, a daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, Hera tricks her into persuading Zeus to grant her any promise. Semele asks him to come to her as he comes to his own wife Hera, and when Zeus upholds this promise, she dies out of fright and is reduced to ashes. [142]
Zeus then forced the reluctant Venus into a marriage with Vulcan so that he would have a wife: The betrothal gifts I [Hephaistos] bestowed on him [Zeus] for his wanton daughter [Aphrodite]. [4] Despite being his wife, this did not stop Venus from engaging in multiple affairs with mortals and gods alike.
Semele (/ ˈsɛmɪli /; Ancient Greek: Σεμέλη, romanized: Semélē), or Thyone (/ ˈθaɪəni /; Ancient Greek: Θυώνη, romanized: Thyṓnē) in Greek mythology, was the youngest daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, and the mother [1] of Dionysus by Zeus in one of his many origin myths. Certain elements of the cult of Dionysus and Semele ...
A prophecy stated that a son of the sea-nymph Thetis, with whom Zeus fell in love after gazing upon her in the oceans off the Greek coast, would become greater than his father. [151] Possibly for this reason, [ 152 ] Thetis was betrothed to an elderly human king, Peleus son of Aeacus , either upon Zeus's orders, [ 153 ] or because she wished to ...
Deception of Zeus. Jupiter and Juno on Mount Ida by James Barry, 1773 (City Art Galleries, Sheffield.) The section of the Iliad that ancient editors called the Dios apate (the " Deception of Zeus ") stands apart from the remainder of Book XIV. In this episode, Hera makes an excuse to leave her divine husband Zeus; in her deception speech she ...
Goddess of love, pleasure, passion, procreation, fertility, beauty and desire. The daughter of Zeus and the Oceanid or Titaness Dione, or perhaps born from the sea foam after Uranus' blood dripped into the sea after being castrated by his youngest son, Cronus, who then threw his father's genitals into the sea. Married to Hephaestus, although ...
Aëtos was an earthborn childhood friend of Zeus, who befriended him while in Crete as he was hiding from his father Cronus. Years later, after Zeus had married Hera, she turned Aëtos into an eagle, as she feared that Zeus had fallen in love with him. The eagle became Zeus's sacred bird and symbol. Agrius and Oreius.
In Greek mythology, Echo (/ ˈɛkoʊ /; Greek: Ἠχώ, Ēkhō, "echo", [3] from ἦχος (ēchos), "sound" [4]) was an Oread who resided on Mount Cithaeron. [5] Zeus loved consorting with beautiful nymphs and often visited them on Earth. Eventually, Zeus's wife, Hera, became suspicious, and came from Mount Olympus in an attempt to catch Zeus ...