Zeus Essay Research Paper ZEUSZeus constantly

Zeus Essay, Research Paper

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Zeus constantly battles with the godly virtues, while continuing to have all the

human qualities.

Zeus in Greek mythology was chief and father of all Gods and mortals.He

corresponds to the Roman god Jupiter.He lived atop Mt.Olympus, at the center of

the earth where all the gods lived and held court.Sometimes Olympus was

thought of as an actual mountain in Greece, but more often as a lofty reign in

the heavens.Zeus was pictured as a kingly, bearded figure who supposedly hurled

thunderbolts from the mountain to announce his anger.His bird was the eagle and

his tree the oak.He became the father of all who populated the heavens and

earth.His promiscuous behavior was legend.

Zeus was the youngest son of the Titan, Cronus and Rhea, who was

actually a sister to Cronus.They produced many offspring, but Cronus could not

allow his children to survive because it had been prophesied that he would be

dethroned by one of his children.He swallowed each of them following their birth,

except for Zeus, who was saved his mother Rhea.She gave Cronus a stone

wrapped in swaddling clothes for him swallow instead of Zeus.He grew to

manhood, attended by nymphs on the island of Crete.Cronus was growing old, so

Zeus gave him an emetic causing him to vomit up his brothers and sisters, five

gods and goddesses, along with the stone that Rhea had given him. They where

alive and unhurt.Cronus was dethroned and the legend has it that Zeus struck him

with a thunderbolt and killed him, becoming the leader in his place.

Zeus’ triumph was far from serene the Titans rebelled, and for ten years

the fighting lasted, neither the Gods or the Titans could secure a victory.Zeus

went and released the Cyclops and with their power and weapons were able to

finally defeat the Titans.There were still attempts to defeat Zeus and the other

Olympians.It required all the power of the other Gods and Monsters to subdue and

kill their enemies.These enemies were the Titans, the dragon with a hundred heads

and the giants.

There was one more attempt to defeat Zeus and the other Olympians by

the Giant’s.They laid siege to Olympus by piling mountain upon mountain to get

there.It required the assistance of other gods and Hercules to defeat them.

Zeus ruled over the sky and his brother Poseidon and Hades were given

power over the sea and underworld.The earth was ruled by all three.Posedion was

a wrathful, moody God. He traveled with sea nymphs and monsters of the

deep.His Latin name was Neptune.Hades was lord of the underworld, the reign of

the deep.He was described as stern and dark, his kingdom gray and lifeless.His

Latin name was Des and Pluto.

With the writings of Homer, Zeus is pictured in two different ways, as the

God of justice and mercy, the protector of the world and also the punisher of

the wicked.Despite his awesome power, he had a weakness for mortal women and

well as Goddesses, and frequently descended to earth to couple with them.He had

numerous affairs with both.He used many guises and tricks to fool them into

having an affair with him.He could change his form at will.

Zeus was married to his sister Hera, she was supposedly his real wife.In

order to trick her into marrying he disguised himself as a cuckoo bird during a

rain storm and hide in her clothing, when she held him he resumed his true form

and ravished her.She married him to hide her shame.It was said that the marriage

night lasted three hundred years.Due to his many affairs their marriage was not a

happy one.Zeus used all kinds of tricks to hide his infidelity from her.Hera was

very jealous and punished him by avenging her self on the females with whom he

dallied.Thier marriage produced four children, Hebe was the goddess of youth and

acted as a cupbearer of the Gods.Ares, God of war, Ilithyia goddess of child

bearing and Hephaestus, the craftsman of the gods.In order to punish Zeus, she

said he was virgin born.

The offspring of Zeus from other affairs were too numerous to count.He

had other wives before Hera, the first was Metis whom he swallowed before she

gave birth to Athena.He knew his second child would dethrone him.In order for

Athena to live he had Hephaestus to split his forehead open to free her. She came

out alive and fully armed as she was warrior goddess.She took part in the war

against the giants and the Trojans.He had many other wives as well as numerous

affairs.Some of his children were great heroes such as, Hercules who was able to

perform super human feats.Zeus had arranged that one day he would become a

god.He was honored thoughout Greece, and was a powerful athlete, instituting the

Olympian games.Another was Apollo, a deity of light to help ripen crops,

destroying pest, and heal illnesses.He could also be deadly as he shot his terrible

arrows and created plagues.He was also

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