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Zeus was not faithful to his wife and sister Hera, and had many relationships from which many children were born. Since Zeus believed that there were too many people populating the earth, he envisioned Momus [ 9 ] or Themis , [ 10 ] who was to use the Trojan War as a means to depopulate the Earth, especially of his demigod descendants.
Hera; raped by her brother (and later husband) Zeus. Io; pursued and eventually raped by Zeus, transformed into a heifer. Leda, raped by Zeus in the form of a swan. [2] This resulted in the birth of Helen of Troy and Polydeuces (Pollux). Liriope; raped by the river god Cephissus, resulting in the birth of Narcissus.
Penthesilea (Greek: Πενθεσίλεια, romanized: Penthesíleia) was an Amazonian queen in Greek mythology, the daughter of Ares and Otrera and the sister of Hippolyta, Antiope, and Melanippe. She assisted Troy in the Trojan War, during which she was killed by Achilles or Neoptolemus.
Persephone did not submit to Hades willingly, but was abducted by him while picking flowers in the fields of Nysa (her father, Zeus, had previously given Persephone to Hades, to be his wife, as is stated in the first lines of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter). In protest of his act, Demeter cast a curse on the land and there was a great famine ...
In this painting by Maarten van Heemskerck Helen, queen of the Greek city-state Sparta, is abducted by Paris, a prince of Troy in Asia Minor. [45] The Walters Art Museum. When it was time for Helen to marry, many kings and princes from around the world came to seek her hand, bringing rich gifts with them or sent emissaries to do so on their behalf.
Stesichorus states that after the sack of Troy, Apollo, Hecuba's former lover, took her to safety and placed her in Lycia. [16] [17] The Bibliotheca (Library) of Pseudo-Apollodorus states that Hecuba had a son named Troilus with the god Apollo. An oracle prophesied that Troy would not be defeated if Troilus reached the age of 20 alive. Troilus ...
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 ...
In Greek mythology, Ganymede is the son of Tros of Dardania, [6] [7] [8] from whose name "Troy" is supposedly derived, either by his wife Callirrhoe, daughter of the river god Scamander, [9] [10] or Acallaris, daughter of Eumedes. [11]