Birth
Cronos had married one of the Titans named Rheia, and he was determined not to let any of his children rebel against him like he had done with his father, so after every baby was born Cronos Promptly swallowed them. He swallowed 5 of these babies in the same manner, until Rheia finally decided that she wanted some
children to play with so when the next baby was born she hid the baby away on the island of Crete. Then she presented a rock wrapped in swaddling clothes, and Cronos swallowed the rock. There the baby (Zeus) grew up until Rheia told Zeus what had happened with his brothers and sisters. Zeus and Rheia finally made Cronos throw up his brothers and sisters. Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Posiedon. Then Zeus made war on Cronos and won. That is the story of Zeus's birth.
Cronos had married one of the Titans named Rheia, and he was determined not to let any of his children rebel against him like he had done with his father, so after every baby was born Cronos Promptly swallowed them. He swallowed 5 of these babies in the same manner, until Rheia finally decided that she wanted some
children to play with so when the next baby was born she hid the baby away on the island of Crete. Then she presented a rock wrapped in swaddling clothes, and Cronos swallowed the rock. There the baby (Zeus) grew up until Rheia told Zeus what had happened with his brothers and sisters. Zeus and Rheia finally made Cronos throw up his brothers and sisters. Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Posiedon. Then Zeus made war on Cronos and won. That is the story of Zeus's birth.
Zeus had 12 wives.
| 1. Metis |
2. Themis |
3. Eurynome |
4. Demeter |
5. Mnemosyne |
6. Leto |
7. Hera |
| 8. Maia |
9. Semele |
10. Alcmene |
11. Europe |
12. Danae. |
This is a Picture of Zeus in one of his Temples.
In most of the stories in Greek Mythology Zeus is a prominent roll in most of the stories, because Zeus became the king of the heavens. This is just one of the stories in Greek Mythology.
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Zeus had for his wife Hera, daughter of old Cronos the Titan, as you remember; but he was not content with one wife. Like King Soloman, he had many wives; and one of them, Metis, caused hem great anxiety; for Mother Earth told him that if Metis bore a son, that soon should be lord of heaven. Zeus accordingly remembered his father Cronos, and what does he do he swallows up his wife whole. Before long he had a bad headache, which got worse and worse until he could bear it no longer. So he sent for Hephaistos, his son, the clever smith, and told him to chop open his head with an ax. "Why, sir, " said Hephaistos, "that will kill you!" "Nonsense!" said Zeus "gods cannot die: chop away!" And Hephaistos raised his ax, and brought it down with a great crash on the head of Zeus, and split it open; and out of the split jumped a little figure, a young goddess is seemed, clad in armour, which rapidly grew bigger until she was full size. As she leapt out, she uttered a loud battle-cry: the heaven shivered, and mother earth did quake. The split in the head of Zeus closed up again, and now the headache was quite well. This was the goddess Athena, whom Zeus always loved very much after that. She was daughter of Metis, which name means Cleverness, and she came out of the head of Zeus; she was the cleverest of the goddesses, and afterwards taught people how to spin, and weave, and sew, and how to paint and carve, and do all kinds of clever things.