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Expand Bust of Zeus Bust of Zeus In Greek mythology Zeus was ruler of both the Olympian gods and the human race. Sometimes he is portrayed as a just and merciful defender of the weak. At other times he appears to be passionate, inconstant, and vengeful. This ancient Greek marble bust of Zeus is in the National Museum in Naples, Statue of Zeus Statue of Zeus The Greek sculptor Phidias created the Statue of Zeus in about 435 bc. The statue, depicted in this engraving by 16th-century Dutch artist Maarten van Heemskerck, stood in Olympia and was perhaps the most famous sculpture in ancient Greece. Ancient Greeks held the Olympian Games every four years to celebrate and honor Zeus, the protector and ruler of mortals and the Olympian family Zeus's Consorts and Offspring Zeus's Consorts and Offspring Zeus, the ruler of the Greek gods, had many relationships with Greek goddesses and mortal women that resulted in offspring. Zeus even gave birth to a child without a mother—Athena, the goddess of wisdom, sprang from his head. Metis is considered to be Athena’s mother because, as one story relates, she was Zeus’s pregnant wife when he swallowed her just before Athena emerged from his head. Zeus married his sister Hera after Metis’s death. Altar of Zeus, Pergamum Altar of Zeus, Pergamum The Altar of Zeus at Pergamum, in Asia Minor, was erected by King Eumenes II in the 2nd century bc in thanks for his victory over the Gauls at Magnesia. The frieze, part of which is seen here, depicts the battle of the gods and Titans. Zeus became ruler of the skies by defeating the Titans. The altar is now in the Pergamum Museum in Berlin, Germany. The Rape of Europa The Rape of Europa The continent of Europe may have been named after Europa, pictured here in the painting The Rape of Europa (1580?, Doges' Palace, Venice, Italy) by Italian artist Paolo Veronese. Zeus spied Europa picking flowers near the sea one day and fell madly in love. He appeared to her as a bull and carried her off into the sea to the island of Crete. There, she bore him three sons, Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Sarpedon, each of whom became kings. Culver Pictures Tintoretto’s Leda and the Swan Tintoretto’s Leda and the Swan In Greek mythology the god Zeus wooed Leda, the wife of the king of Sparta, in the form of a swan. This depiction of their courtship was painted by Italian artist Tintoretto in 1555. It hangs in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. Thorvaldsen’s Ganymede and Zeus Thorvaldsen’s Ganymede and Zeus Representative of the 19th-century neoclassical movement, Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen created a number of works inspired by Greek mythology. In this sculpture he portrays the handsome young Trojan youth Ganymede alongside the Greek god Zeus, who has taken the form of an eagle. According to Greek mythology, the eagle Zeus carries Ganymede off to live among the gods on Mount Olympus. Zeus, in Greek mythology, the god of the sky and ruler of the Olympian gods. Zeus corresponds to the Roman god Jupiter. Zeus was considered, according to Homer, the father of the gods and of mortals. He did not create either gods or mortals; he was their father in the sense of being the protector and ruler both of the Olympian family and of the human race. He was lord of the sky, the rain god, and the cloud gatherer, who wielded the terrible thunderbolt. His breastplate was the aegis, his bird the eagle, his tree the oak. Zeus presided over the gods on Mount Olympus in Thessaly (Thessalia). His principal shrines were at Dodona, in Epirus, the land of the oak trees and the most ancient shrine, famous for its oracle, and at Olympia, where the Olympic Games were celebrated in his honor every fourth year. The Nemean games, held at Nemea, northwest of Árgos, were also dedicated to Zeus. Zeus was the youngest son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea and the brother of the deities Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Demeter, and Hera. According to one of the ancient myths of the birth of Zeus, Cronus, fearing that he might be dethroned by one of his children, swallowed them as they were born. Upon the birth of Zeus, Rhea wrapped a stone in swaddling clothes for Cronus to swallow and concealed the infant god in Crete (Kríti), where he was fed on the milk of the goat Amalthaea and reared by nymphs. When Zeus grew to maturity, he forced Cronus to disgorge the other children, who were eager to take vengeance on their father. In the war that followed, the Titans fought on the side of Cronus, but Zeus and the other gods were successful, and the Titans were consigned to the abyss of Tartarus. Zeus henceforth ruled over the sky, and his brothers Poseidon and Hades were given power over the sea and the underworld, respectively. The earth was to be ruled in common by all three. Beginning with the writings of the Greek poet Homer, Zeus is pictured in two very different ways. He is represented as the god of justice and mercy, the protector of the weak, and the punisher of the wicked. As husband to his sister Hera, he is the father of Ares, the god of war; Hebe, the goddess of youth; Hephaestus, the god of fire; and Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth. At the same time, Zeus is described as falling in love with one woman after another and resorting to all kinds of tricks to hide his infidelity from his wife. Stories of his escapades were numerous in ancient mythology, and many of his offspring were a result of his love affairs with both goddesses and mortal women. It is believed that, with the development of a sense of ethics in Greek life, the idea of a lecherous, sometimes ridiculous father god became distasteful, so later legends tended to present Zeus in a more exalted light. His many affairs with mortals are sometimes explained as the wish of the early Greeks to trace their lineage to the father of the gods. Zeus's image was represented in sculptural works as a kingly, bearded figure. The most celebrated of all statues of Zeus was Phidias's gold and ivory colossus at Olympia. From Bulfinch’s Mythology: Prometheus and Pandora In this 19th-century narrative, American mythologist and writer Thomas Bulfinch retold several ancient Greek myths of creation, including the legend in which the god Prometheus and his brother Epimetheus created humanity and bestowed upon it the stolen gift of fire. According to one version of the myth, Zeus (named Jupiter in Latin), ruler of the gods, punished both the gods and humanity for this theft by creating Pandora, the first woman, whose curiosity would unleash a variety of ills. Bulfinch then recounted a tale of flooding and destruction that killed nearly all the earth’s inhabitants, who had degenerated into greed and crime; and of the creation of a new, and more worthy, race of people. more... From Bulfinch’s Mythology: Baucis and Philemon This Roman fable celebrates the life-long love of a kind and modest couple. Baucis and her husband, Philemon, provide hospitality to the gods Jupiter and Mercury, who appear disguised as travelers, when no one else would be bothered with them. The gods offer to reward them for their kindness, and they reply that since they have lived together they would like to die together. After they lived out their lives, Baucis and Philemon were transformed into two trees with intertwining limbs. Thomas Bulfinch, a 19th-century American writer who chronicled Greek and Roman mythology, retells the story here. more...