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many affairs, with both Goddesses and mortal women, which inevitably produced offspring. This served to enrage his wife Hera, who would often create problems in these relationships.Zeus was the sixth child born to Cronus and Rhea, Because Cronus, ruler of the Titans and the supreme god at the time, was afraid that one of his children would overthrow him, just like he overthrew his father, Uranus, he swallowed his first five children - Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Demeter and Hestia. Zeus was the supreme god and ruler of Olympus. He was known by many titles: Lord of the Sky, the Cloud- gatherer, the Rain-god and Zeus the Thunderer, all of which show which force of nature was considered to be the most important in Ancient World - rain. In most other mythologies the "ruler-god" was usually associated with the sun, but in Greece the climate is hot and dry making rain the scarce, life-giving force. //**
 * //Zeus was held to be the ruler of all the Gods. He stayed on Mount Olympus and reigned over the heavens. He is also quite well known for his


 * __Ως Κυβερνήτης του ουρανού, τον Έλληνα θεού Ευρώπη ήταν υπεύθυνη για την προσαγωγή ή όχι, εάν αυτός το επέλεξε βροχή, ξηρασία και καταιγίδες. Κανένας δεν τόλμησε αμφισβητεί την αρχή της το επιβλητικό Ευρώπη δεδομένου ότι ήταν επιρρεπείς σε απελευθέρωση του τόσο thunderbolts να εκφράσει τη δυσαρέσκειά μια δεινή τρόπο να διατηρήσουν την ειρήνη και τηρεί την τάξη, αλλά θα εργαστεί για πολλούς αιώνες!__ //(TRANSLATION)As ruler of the sky, the Greek god Zeus was responsible for bringing or not, if he so chose rain, drought, and thunderstorms. No one dared challenge the authority of the mighty Zeus since he was prone to release his fearsome thunderbolts to express his displeasure an awesome way to keep the peace and maintain order, but it worked for several centuries!//**


 * //Zeus intervened in a great many legends which are not easy to group together. The gods relates a plot against him by Here, Athena and Poseidon, which was an attempt to chain him up. He was saved by Aegaeon. On one occassion he hurled Hephaestus into space, making the god lame thereafter, as a punishment for having sided with Hera. He re-eestablished order in the world after Prometheus theft by chaining the latter to the Caucasian mountains, but, confronted by the wickedness of mankind, he caused the great flood, from which the human race was saved only thanks to Deucalion. Thus it was to Zeus the Liberator that Deucalion made his first sacrifice once this flood was over.

Zeus intervened in quarrels which frequently arose between Apollo and Heracles concerning the tripod of Delphi; between Apollo and Idas about Marpessa; between Pallas and Athena, thus bringing about, quite unintentionally, the former's death; between Athena and Poseidon who were fighting over possession of Attica; between Aphrodite and Persephone who were arguing over the beautiful Adonis. He also punished a number of criminals, notably sacrilegious people such as Salmoneus, Ixion (thus avenging a particular insult) and Lycaon. We see him intervening also in the Labours of Heracles, giving him weapons against his enemies, or removing him from their hands when he is injured. Zeus was said to have abducted the young Ganymede in the Troad, and made him his own cup-bearer as a replacement for Hebe. At Rome Zeus was identified with Jupiter, like him god of heaven, and protector of the city in his temple on the Capitol.//**