2023年3月8日 · In one Orphic tradition, Zeus drugged Cronus with honey at the advice of the primordial goddess Nyx (“Night”), then bound and castrated him while he was incapacitated. In another tradition, Zeus and Cronus fought hand-to-hand, and their battle was the first wrestling match at Olympia, the future site of the Olympic Games.

2023年9月21日 · Overview. Zeus was the supreme god of the Greeks, a mighty deity who meted out justice from atop Mount Olympus. Hailed as the father of both mortals and immortals, Zeus was the god of the sky and weather, but was also connected with …

2023年3月8日 · Several of the other Olympians, led by Hera, Poseidon, and Athena, wished to overthrow Zeus and take over his power. While he was sleeping, they bound him in chains. But Thetis summoned Briareus, one of the invincibly strong Hecatoncheires (“Hundred-Handers”) to help Zeus: Briareus broke Zeus’ chains and helped Zeus reassert his dominance.

2023年3月9日 · Persephone was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, the wife of Hades, and the queen of the Underworld. Her most important myth tells of how Hades abducted her, then tricked her into eating something in the Underworld so that she could never leave. Not even her mother, Demeter, could bring her home.

2023年7月3日 · Perseus was a son of Zeus, the ruler of the Greek gods. His mother was Danae, the daughter of Acrisius, king of Argos. On his mother’s side, this made Perseus a descendant of the first ruling dynasty of Argos, which traced its origin to the river god Inachus.

2023年1月27日 · The wide variety of myths involving Hypnos says a great deal about the different functions that the god of sleep played in the ancient Greek imagination. In one important story, described in Homer’s Iliad, Zeus sent Hypnos and his brother Thanatos (“Death”) to carry his son Sarpedon away from the battlefield during the Trojan War. Hypnos ...

2023年5月5日 · Jason, son of Aeson, was a hero from Iolcus in Thessaly. He was best known for leading the Argonauts in their quest to steal the Golden Fleece.

2022年12月8日 · Helen of Troy, “the face that launched a thousand ships,” was a daughter of Zeus and Leda who was famous for her extraordinary beauty. When Helen left her Greek husband for a handsome Trojan prince, the Greeks started the Trojan War to get her back.

2023年2月15日 · Europa was the beautiful Phoenician princess whom Zeus carried across the waves in the form of a bull so that he could make love to her. Zeus set Europa down on the island of Crete, where she bore Minos, Rhadamanthys, and Sarpedon to the god before marrying the local king Asterius.

2023年7月31日 · Achilles, humiliated, almost killed Agamemnon, but restrained himself and decided instead that he would no longer fight for Agamemnon. He then told his mother, Thetis, of the insult, and Thetis made Zeus promise that he would make the Greeks suffer for insulting Achilles. In the days that followed, Zeus kept his promise to Thetis.