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ZEUS ZEUS was the king of the gods, the god of sky and weather, law, order and fate. He was depicted as a regal man, mature with sturdy figure and dark beard. His usual attributes were a lightning bolt, royal sceptre and eagle. Some of the more famous myths featuring the god include:-- ■His birth and upbringing in the Diktaion cave, where he was nursed by Amaltheia and guarded by the shield-clashing Kouretes; ■The Titan War in which he overthrew the Titanes and imprisoned them in Tartaros; ■His battle with Typhoeus, a hundred headed, monstrous giant who attempted to capture heaven; ■The War of the Giants who attempted to storm Olympos but were slain by Zeus and the gods; ■The Great Deluge in which he flooded the earth to destroy mankind and begin the world anew; ■His conflict with Prometheus over the theft of benefactions for mankind; ■The punishment of Salmoneus, Tantalos and Ixion, men who offended the god with their impiety; ■The birth and life of Herakles, his favoured son, who he had transferred to Olympos at death; ■His extramarital affairs with women such as Leda, seduced in the form of a swan; Europa, as a bull; Danae, as a golden shower; Kallisto, as Artemis; and Antiope as a satyr; ■The Trojan War which he orchestrated from start to end, including the casting of the golden apple of discord. INTRODUCTION ZEUS (Zeus), the greatest of the Olympian gods, and the father of gods and men, was a son of Cronos and Rhea, a brother of Poseidon, Hades (Pluto), Hestia, Demeter, Hera, and at the same time married to his sister Hera. When Zeus and his brothers distributed among themselves the government of the world by lot, Poseidon obtained the sea, Hades the lower world, and Zeus the heavens and the upper regions, but the earth became common to all Later mythologers enumerate three Zeus in their genealogies two Arcadian ones and one Cretan; and tne first is said to be a son of Aether, the second of Coelus, and the third of Saturnus (Cic. de Nat. Deor. iii. 21). This a