Zeus

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Zeus

• Zeus is the chief god and king of the mountain
  Olympus

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Zeuss background

• Zeus was known as Jupiter to the Romans, who
  believed in an almost identical mythology. Zeus,
  or Jupiter, was king of all other gods, and was
  married to Hera, his sister, and they had many
  kids. He also had many affairs which resulted in
  many other kids (Heracles for one, also Hermes,
  Apollo and Helen. Just to name a few).

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Zeuss godly powers

• Along with the ability throw lightning bolts.
  Zeus has power over thunder storms, and rain.
• Zeus was given his power of lightning bolts from
  the Cyclops he freed.
• What makes Zeuss powers unique is that generally
  the chief god in a society would be of the sun,
  but in Greek mythology, the rain was more
  important. This was because the Aegean, was a
  very hot and dry place, so they heavily depended
  on rain to help crops grow.

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Zeus Picture

• Zeus is depicted in these pictures.

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Story involving Zeus

• Hera convinced the other gods to try and over
  throw Zeus, who was the leader god. So Hera
  drugged Zeus while he was sleeping, and then the
  other gods converged upon him and tied him up.
  Zeus was furious when he woke up but the knots
  were so tight he was unable to do anything. The
  gods were happy to see that the plan had worked,
  but as fate would have it, there was no plan for
  what should happen after he was over thrown. The
  gods then began a bitter argument about who there
  new leader should be. Briareus a one-hundred
  handed giant over heard the argument. He was
  still fiercely loyal to Zeus, after Zeus had
  helped him in the War of the titans. He then
  sprung forth and used all one-hundred of his
  hands to untie Zeus. Zeus than took out one of
  his trade mark lighting bolts. The other gods in
  fear quickly crouched to the ground. Zeus took
  his anger out on Hera, and he tied her to the top
  of the sky by a golden chain. Hera weeped and
  wined all night long so Zeus, was extremely tired
  and irritable so he let her down, but he made her
  sware that she would never try to over throw him
  again. That being said she still tried to get
  people to rebel against him.

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Bibliography

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