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Zeus also turned himself into a serpent and raped Rhea, which resulted in the birth of Persephone. [56] Afterwards, Rhea became Demeter. [57] Persephone was born so deformed that Rhea ran away from her frightened, and did not breastfeed Persephone. [56] Zeus then mates with Persephone, who gives birth to Dionysus.
Typically, they were the daughters of Zeus and Oceanid Eurynome. [3] Alternative parentage may be Zeus and Eurydome, Eurymedousa, or Euanthe; Dionysus and Koroneia; or Helios and the Naiad Aegle. [4] [5] [6]
She was the daughter of Zeus, produced without a mother, and emerged full-grown from his forehead. There was an alternate story that Zeus swallowed Metis, the goddess of counsel, while she was pregnant with Athena and when she was fully grown she emerged from Zeus' forehead. Being the favorite child of Zeus, she had great power.
In most sources, including the Iliad and the Odyssey, Helen is the daughter of Zeus and of Leda, the wife of the Spartan king Tyndareus. [28] Euripides ' play Helen , written in the late 5th century BC, is the earliest source to report the most familiar account of Helen's birth: that, although her putative father was Tyndareus, she was actually ...
Euphrosyne") were the daughters of Zeus and Eunomia. [14] The Stoic philosopher Cornutus includes the names Eurynome, and Aegle, he gives other names for mothers as well: Eurydome, Eurymedousa, Hera, and Euanthe. [15] Nonnus has his three Charites (Hesiod's Aglaea, Homer's Pasithea, and Hermesianax's Peitho) [16] being the daughters of Dionysus ...
Pages in category "Children of Zeus" The following 138 pages are in this category, out of 138 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Achaeus (mythology)
In Greek mythology, according to Plutarch, the 7th century BC Greek poet Alcman said that Ersa / ˈ ɜːr s ə / or Herse / ˈ h ɜːr s iː / (Ἔρσα, Érsa, Ἕρση, Hérsē, literally "dew"), the personification of dew, is the daughter of Zeus and the Moon . [1] Plutarch writes:
According to Hesiod she was the daughter of primordial Nyx (Night), and the mother of a long list of undesirable personified abstractions, such as Ponos (Toil), Limos (Famine), Algae (Pains) and Ate (Delusion). Eris initiated a quarrel between Hera, Athena and Aphrodite, which led to the Judgement of Paris and ultimately the Trojan War.