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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.
In Greek mythology, Themiste (Ancient Greek: Θεμίστη, romanized: Themístē) or Themis was a Trojan princess and daughter of King Ilus II of Troad. [1] She was the (half) sister of Laomedon, Tithonius and Telecleia. [2] Themiste was married off by Ilus to her cousin King Capys, son of Assaracus and Hieromneme, and became the queen of ...
Early accounts gave her a primal origin, said to be the eldest daughter of Gaia (Earth) and Uranus (Sky). [4] She is thus the sister of the Titans (Oceanus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Coeus, Themis, Rhea, Phoebe, Tethys, Mnemosyne, Cronus, and sometimes of Dione), the Cyclopes, the Hecatoncheires, the Giants, the Meliae, the Erinyes, and is the half-sister of Aphrodite (in some versions ...
The Oceanid nymph [1] Theia became the mother of the Cercopes, [2] [3] two mischievous impish thieves, by her own father Oceanus. [4] When her sons stole from the hero Heracles, he seized and bound them and was about to kill them; Theia begged him to let her sons go. [5]
Zeus, Gaia, Themis: Kataibates ("thunderer") Classical period: Examination of entrails, observation of the flames of burnt sacrifice before the altar of Zeus Ptoon, Mount in Boeotia: Apollo: Ptoian: 7th through 4th centuries BC by archaeology. Inspired priest speaking from a grotto in which was a spring. A mountainside temple was nearby. Siwa ...
The earliest written mention of Horai is in the Iliad where they appear as keepers of Zeus's cloud gates. [7] "Hardly any traces of that function are found in the subsequent tradition," Karl Galinsky remarked in passing. [8] They were daughters of Zeus and Themis, half-sisters to the Moirai. [9] [10]
So Zeus slew their warder Campe (a detail not found in Hesiod) and released them, and in addition to giving Zeus his thunderbolt (as in Hesiod), the Cyclopes also gave Poseidon his trident, and Hades his helmet, and "with these weapons the gods overcame the Titans, shut them up in Tartarus, and appointed the Hundred-handers their guards". [70]
Quintus described her exulting in her heart over the radiant horses (Lampus and Phaëton) that drew her chariot, amidst the bright-haired Horae, the feminine Hours, the daughters of Zeus and Themis who are responsible for the changing of the seasons, climbing the arc of heaven and scattering sparks of fire.