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In Greek mythology, Apate (/ ˈ æ p ə t iː /; Ancient Greek: Ἀπάτη Apátē) is the goddess and personification of deceit. Her mother is Nyx, the personification of the night. [1] [2] In Roman mythology her equivalent is Fraus (Fraud), while her male counterpart is Dolus (Deception), and her opposite number Aletheia, the goddess of truth.
Metis gave her cousin Zeus a potion to cause his father Cronus, the supreme ruler of the cosmos, to vomit out his siblings their father had swallowed out of fear of being overthrown. [6] After the Titanomachy , the 10-year war among the immortals, she was pursued by Zeus and they got married.
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.
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.
They had been rejected by all, "so wicked were the people of that land", when at last they came to Baucis and Philemon's simple rustic cottage. Though the couple were poor, their generosity far surpassed that of their rich neighbors, among whom the gods found "doors bolted and no word of kindness".
The earliest forms of the myth have no erotic content, but by the 5th century bce it was believed that Zeus had a sexual passion for him. [4] Socrates says that Zeus was in love with Ganymede, called "desire" in Plato's Phaedrus. [5] But in Xenophon's Symposium, Socrates argue Zeus loved him for his mind and it was not sexual.
[Ate] once even blinded Zeus, though men say that he is the greatest among men and gods; — Homer , Iliad 19.95–96 ; translation by A.T. Murray, revised by William F. Wyatt According to Agamemnon, when Alcmene was about to give birth to Zeus's son Heracles , Zeus, in his great pride, boasted that on that day would be born a man, of Zeus's ...
Despoina and Arion - Goddess and immortal horse, children of Demeter and Poseidon. Palici - Sicilian chthonic deities in Greek mythology and Roman mythology. Phaethusa and Lampetia - Daughters of Helios and Neaera. One divine, one mortal Heracles and Iphicles - Though their mother was Alcmene, Hercules was son of Zeus while Iphicles was son of ...