Zeus is king of Mount Olympus,
The home of Greek
Gods
where he rules the world
and imposes his will onto gods and
Mortals alike
Often referred to as the “Father of Gods and men”, he is a sky god who 
controls lightning
Thunder
Zeus was the last child of the titans
Cronus and Rhea
And avoided being swallowed by his father
 (who had been told one of his
would overthrow him).
Cronus had previously
swallowed DEMETER, HESTIA, HERA, HADES and POSEIDON.
Zeus was raised by a goat named Amalthea in a cave called Dictaeon Antron in
Crete Island
A company of soldiers called Kouretes
danced, shouted and clashed
their spears against their shields so that
Cronus would not hear the baby's cry.
Rhea’s deception
was a success.
Unbeknownst 
to his father,
Zeus came of age on Crete
in the company of Gaia and the Nymphs.
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Well where were we
When he reached manhood,
Zeus left Crete
to confront Cronus.
Before doing so
he freed the Titans
imprisoned by Uranus
(like Cronus,
the other Titans envied their
father’s power
and had tried unsuccessfully to usurp him).
In return, the
Titan Cyclops gave Zeus ;
 “thunder and the glowing thunderbolt and lightning,”
claimed Hesiod, the Greek poet whose 
Theogony is
the densest 
single source for the mythology of the Greeks.
Using his new weapons;
Zeus overwhelmed Cronus,
forcing his jealous father to vomit up the children he had swallowed.
To Demeter he offered control over agriculture; to Poseidon he granted the seas; to Hades he bestowed
the Underworld; and
to Hestia he gave the domain of the home and hearth.
Zeus eventually fell in love with her sister and took Hera as his wife.
Together, the Olympian gods and goddesses—so
named because they reigned atop Mt. Olympus—ushered in a new era.
The peace won by Zeus was short-lived, for the Titans, eager as always to seize control of the cosmos for themselves,
rejected Zeus’ rule and sparked the conflict known as the Titanomachy.
For ten years, the Titans did battle with Zeus and the Olympians.
In his victory;
Zeus banished the Titans to Tartarus and set the Hecatoncheires to keep eternal
watch over them.
There is a famous creation myth;
involved Zeus’ erstwhile ally, the Titan Prometheus.
One day; Zeus instructed Prometheus to create the first humans.
Prometheus molded them out of clay,
and Zeus’ daughter Athena breathed life into them.
All was well until Prometheus deceived Zeus over a complicated matter involving animal sacrifice,
ensuring the gods were forever deprived of the animals’ sacrificial meat.
In his anger, Zeus
took fire from the humans,
only for Prometheus to steal it back and return it to them shortly afterward.
Zeus now sought revenge,
and devised a particularly macabre punishment for his onetime ally—
he fastened Prometheus to a rock and
had an eagle eat his immortal liver every day.
Prometheus’ liver regrew every night
ensuring that this punishment would continue for all eternity.
In order to revenge himself upon the humans, Zeus
 had his children Hephaestus and Athena fashion a woman named Pandora.
Before she was sent to earth, Pandora was feted by the gods and
given gifts of priceless value, which included a sealed box she was told never to open.
Eventually, curiosity got the better of her—as Zeus knew it would—and 
Pandora opened the box, releasing a host of evils upon the humans, 
including death (note that at this point humans were immortal),
war, famine, disease,
and countless others.
By the time Pandora covered the box only Hope remained,
leaving the humans to wander in a hopeless, fallen world.
As the king of the gods and sitting atop the golden throne on Olympus, 
Zeus was revered by all. Mortal kings would boast that they were descendants of Zeus.
With this supreme power came a number of roles and responsibilities.
Hesiod described Zeus as a god who “brought peace in place of violence”
and referred to him as the “lord of justice“.
Zeus 
mated with many goddesses and mortals
(including Aegina, Alcmena, Calliope,
Cassiopea,
Demeter, Dione,
Europa, Io, Leda,
Leto, Mnemosyne,
Niobe and Semele) but was married to his sister Hera – goddess of marriage and monogamy.
From his numerous erotic affairs,
he had too many children Athena, Apollo,
Artemis
Aphrodite
Hermes, Ares, Hephaestus, 
Persephone, Dionysus,
Perseus, Heracles,
Helen of Troy, Minos, and The
Nine Muses are the most famous ones.
Famous ones
Usually, Zeus is portrayed with a scepter in one hand and a thunderbolt in the other –
both symbols of his authority.
Sometimes he wears a crown of oak leaves – the oak was deemed to be his sacred tree.
Zeus was one of the three most power
Powerful gods
Along with his brothers
Poseidon and Hades
In fact
it was said that he was more powerful than all the Olympians put together since many of the gods feared
Feared him and tried to trick him rather than challenge him out right
As god of the sky Zeus held absolute control over the winds
Thunderstorms, rain,
moisture, clouds,
Lightning and weather
He controlled the movements of stars, day and night, the sun
sun and the moon;
decided the lifespan of mortals and controlled the effects of time.
He also controlled the powers of all his children and sisters,
And could remove or grant their powers as well
His greatest weapon was the lightning bolt, capable of shearing mountains,
Vaporizing Islands
Boiling the Seas and razing entire cities.
His lightning bolt was so powerful it was capable of destroying the bodies of gods and Titans.
Zeus was worshipped by every Greek
He was seen as the patron of Kings
In his attempts to -
Maintain peace among his plotting peers
Zeus expressed the yearning for unity and moral clarity present amongst the bitterly divided city-states that made up
The Greek world
the Greek world. Zeus was not simply the powerful god the Greeks looked 
to when they gazed at the sky; he was their idealized reflection of themselves.
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