One of the things that I consider to be one of the biggest misconceptions about Zeus is that he is a philanderer and even a rapist. If you look at the culture in the Mycenaean and Pre-Classical Greece. you see that there are documented instances of males having multiple wives. This is in approximately the…
Variations in how Zeus is viewed by various areas of Greece is something that is interesting to a lot of people. And this is reflected in the various myths that describe Him. The variations begin in the story of his birth, because Crete is where Zeus was raised from infancy, but other stories don’t describe…
This is the second of my “catch-up” entries and discusses Zeus’ epithets and titles. Because Zeus has SO MANY, I will be discussing only some of them. The reason for the large number is that many of them are regional epithets or titles, so in this post I will try to focus on some of…
A few words of apology MUST accompany this entry and the next. I have begun classes at my local Community College this week and had not quite anticipated the amount of homework I would be doing. I will be trying to make sure that I do these entries BEFORE starting my classwork each day in…
As Zeus is the youngest son of Chronos and Rhea, he has five siblings. They are Hestia, Haides, Demeter, Poseidon, and Hera. He has five uncles and five aunts who are first-Generation Titans and he is the grandson of Ouranos and Gaea. He is also the father of Apollon, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Dionysus, Hephaestus, Hermes,…
This is a post about what myth or myths about Zeus is my “favorite” and I had to think about this one for over a day, because while I worship Zeus, the myths are not anything that would typically draw me to him. I would think that for me, it is that he actually chose…
What are some symbols and attributes of Zeus? Most people know his thunderbolt, but fewer people know of his symbols of his throne, his aegis, the miniature Nike (Goddess of Victory), and the standard way of his depiction as the King of the Olympian Theoi. Most of the time he is depicted in a chiton…
