Zeus | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-10

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00:02:10 1 Name
00:03:55 2 Mythology
00:04:04 2.1 Birth
00:04:55 2.2 Infancy
00:05:53 2.3 King of the gods
00:08:02 2.4 Conflicts with humans
00:08:57 2.5 In the iIliad/i
00:10:52 2.6 List of other deeds
00:11:20 3 Family
00:11:29 3.1 Zeus and Hera
00:13:01 3.2 Transformation of Zeus
00:13:11 3.3 Consorts and offspring
00:14:08 4 Roles and epithets
00:18:41 5 Cults of Zeus
00:18:51 5.1 Panhellenic cults
00:19:47 5.1.1 Zeus Velchanos
00:22:59 5.1.2 Zeus Lykaios
00:25:31 5.1.3 Additional cults of Zeus
00:27:18 5.2 Non-panhellenic cults
00:28:00 5.3 Oracles of Zeus
00:28:31 5.3.1 The Oracle at Dodona
00:29:32 5.3.2 The Oracle at Siwa
00:30:17 6 Zeus and foreign gods
00:31:07 7 Zeus and the sun
00:31:54 8 Zeus in philosophy
00:32:20 9 Zeus in the Bible
00:33:47 10 In modern culture
00:35:05 11 Genealogy of the Olympians
00:35:16 12 Argive genealogy
00:35:26 13 See also



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Zeus (;Greek: Ζεύς, Zeús [zdeǔ̯s]) is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion, who rules as king of the gods of Mount Olympus. His name is cognate with the first element of his Roman equivalent Jupiter. His mythologies and powers are similar, though not identical, to those of Indo-European deities such as Jupiter, Perkūnas, Perun, Indra and Thor.Zeus is the child of Cronus and Rhea, the youngest of his siblings to be born, though sometimes reckoned the eldest as the others required disgorging from Cronus's stomach. In most traditions, he is married to Hera, by whom he is usually said to have fathered Ares, Hebe, and Hephaestus. At the oracle of Dodona, his consort was said to be Dione, by whom the Iliad states that he fathered Aphrodite. Zeus was also infamous for his erotic escapades. These resulted in many divine and heroic offspring, including Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Hermes, Persephone, Dionysus, Perseus, Heracles, Helen of Troy, Minos, and the Muses.He was respected as an allfather who was chief of the gods and assigned the others to their roles: "Even the gods who are not his natural children address him as Father, and all the gods rise in his presence." He was equated with many foreign weather gods, permitting Pausanias to observe "That Zeus is king in heaven is a saying common to all men". Zeus' symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull, and oak. In addition to his Indo-European inheritance, the classical "cloud-gatherer" (Greek: Νεφεληγερέτα, Nephelēgereta)  also derives certain iconographic traits from the cultures of the ancient Near East, such as the scepter. Zeus is frequently depicted by Greek artists in one of two poses: standing, striding forward with a thunderbolt leveled in his raised right hand, or seated in majesty.