A GUIDE TO THE LOVERS & CHILDREN OF ZEUS KING OF THE GODS.
Some of the lovers and children of the god are only connected with him through brief genealogical reference (which are given at the bottom of this page).
Those relationships which are expanded upon in myth are fully described on separate pages (see the LOVES and FAMILY hyperlinks below).
OTHER SECTIONS ON ZEUS:
THE CULT OF ZEUS
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Immortal Offspring (Olympian Gods)
(1) ARES (by Hera) (Theogony 921, Iliad 5.699, Apollodorus 1.13, Pausanias 2.14.3, Hyginus Pref, and other sources)
(2a) ATHENE (innumerable sources)
(2b) ATHENE (by Metis) (Theogony 887, 924; Apollodorus 1.20)
(3) HEPHAISTOS (by Hera) (Apollodorus 1.19, De Natura Deorum 3.22)
(4a) APHRODITE (innumerable sources)
(4b) APHRODITE (by Dione) (Iliad 5.370; Euripides Helen 1098; Apollodorus 1.13)
(5a) APOLLON (innumerable sources)
(5b) APOLLON (by Leto) (Theogony 918, Works & Days 770f, Iliad 1.9 & 21.495, Odyssey 6.100 & 11.318, Homeric Hymn XXVII to Artemis, Orphic Hymn 35, Pindar Nemean 6 & 8, Pindar Processional Song on Delos, Callimachus Hymn to Artemis & Hymn to Delos, Apollodorus 1.21 & 3.46, Pausanias 8.9.1 & 8.53.1. Hyginus Fab 9 & 140, and other sources)
(6a) ARTEMIS (innumerable sources)
(6b) ARTEMIS (by Leto) (Theogony 918, Works & Days 770f, Iliad 1.9 & 21.495, Odyssey 6.100 & 11.318, Homeric Hymn XXVII to Artemis, Orphic Hymn 35, Pindar Nemean 6 & 8, Pindar Processional Song on Delos, Callimachus Hymn to Artemis & Hymn to Delos, Apollodorus 1.21 & 3.46, Pausanias 8.9.1 & 8.53.1. Hyginus Fab 9 & 140, and other sources)
(7a) HERMES (innumerable sources)
(7b) HERMES (by Maia) (Theogony 938, Homerica The Astronomy 1, Homeric Hymn IV to Hermes 1, Homeric Hymn XVII to Hermes 3, Alcaeus Frag 308, Simonides Frag 555, Apollodorus 3.112, Ovid Fasti 5.79)
(8a) DIONYSOS (innumerable sources)
(8b) DIONYSOS (by Semele) (Theogony 940, Homeric Hymns 1 & 7 & 26, Pindar Pythian 3, Bacchylides Frag 19, Apollodorus 3.26, Pausanias 3.24.4, Diodorus Siculus 4.2.1, Hyginus Fabulae 179, Nonnus Dionysiaca, et al)
(8c) DIONYSOS (by Dione) (Scholiast on Pindar's Pythian 3.177; Hesy****s)
(8d) ZAGREUS (by Persephone) (Orphic Hymns 29 &30, Hyginus Fabulae 155, Diodorus Siculus 4.4.1, Dionysiaca 6.155, Suidas 'Zagreus')
Immortal Offspring (Other Gods)
(1) PERSEPHONE (by Demeter) (Theogony 912, Homeric Hymn II to Demeter, Apollodorus 1.29, Pausanias, Dionysiaca 5.562, Metamorphoses 5.501, Ovid Fasti 4.575)
(2) THE HORAI named: EUNOMIA, DIKE, EIRENE (by Themis) (Theogony 901, Orphic Hymn 43, Pindar Frag 30, Apollodorus 1.13, Pausanias 5.17.1, Hyginus Fab 183)
(3) THE MOIRAI named: KLOTHO, LAKHESIS, ATROPOS (by Themis) (Theogony, Apollodorus 1.13)
(4a) THE KHARITES named: AGLAIA, EUPHROSYNE, THALEIA (by Eurynome) (Theogony 907, Apollodorus 1.13, Callimachus Aetia Frag 6, Pausanias 9.35.1, Hyginus Pref)
(4b) THE KHARITES named: AGLAIA, EUPHROSYNE, THALEIA (by Eunomia) (Orphic Hymn 60)
(5) THE MOUSAI named: KLEIO, EUTERPE, THALEIA, MELPOMENE, TERPSIKHORE, ERATO, POLYHYMNIA, OURANIA, KALLIOPE (by Mnemosyne) (Theogony 915, Orphic Hymn 76 & 77, Alcman Frag 8, Solon Frag 13, Apollodorus 1.13, Diodorus Siculus 4.7.1, Antoninus Liberalis 9, De Natura Deorum 3.21)
(6) EILEITHYIA (by Hera) (Theogony 921, Apollodorus 1.13)
(7) HEBE (by Hera) (Theogony 921, Pindar Isthmian 4, Apollodorus 1.13, Pausanias 2.13.3, Aelian On Animals 17.46, Hyginus Pref)
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ERIS (by Hera) (Iliad 4.441, Quintus Smyrnaeus 10.51)
(9) ATE (Iliad 19.85)
(10) THE LITAI (Iliad 9.450, Quintus Smyrnaeus 10.300)
(11) ALATHEIA (Pindar Olympian 11)
(12) KAIROS (Pausanias 5.14.9)
(13) HARMONIA (by Elektra) (Diodorus Siculus 5.48.2)
(14) BRITOMARTIS (by Karme) (Pausanias 2.30.3, Diodorus Siculus 5.76.3, Antoninus Liberalis 40)
(15) ERSA (by Selene) (Alcman Frag 57)
(16) PANDEIA (by Selene) (Homeric Hymn 32 to Selene, Hyginus Pref)
(17) NEMEA (by Selene) (Scholia)
(18a) AIGIPAN (by Boetis) (Hyginus Fab 155)
(18b) AIGIPAN (by Aix) (Hyginus Astronomica 2.13)
(19) PAN (by Hybris)
(20) ZAGREOS (by Persephone) (Orphic Hymns 29 & 30, Hyginus Fabulae 155, Diodorus Siculus 4.4.1, Dionysiaca 6.155, Suidas 'Zagreus')
(21) MELINOE (by Persephone) (Orphic Hymn 71)
(22) THE THRIAI (by Themis) (Apollodorus 2.114)
(23) THE NYMPHAI (The Precepts of Chiron Frag 3, Odyssey)
(24) AGDISTIS (by Gaia) (Pausanias 7.17.
(25) THE PALIKOI (by Thaleia) (Macrobius Saturnalia 5.19.15)
(26) THE KABEIROI (or THE KORYBANTES) (by Kalliope) (Strabo 10.3.19)
(27) ASOPOS (by Eurynome) (Apollodorus 3.156)
(28) PHASIS (Valerius Flaccus 5.205)
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Mortal Offspring (Combined Kingdoms of Greece)
(1) HELLEN (by Pyrrha) (Apollodorus 1.49, Hyginus Fabulae 155)
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Mortal Offspring (Kingdom of the Graikoi in North-Western Greece)
(1) GRAIKOS (by Pandora) (Catalogues of Women Fragment 2)
Mortal Offspring (Kingdoms of Makedonia in North-Eastern Greece)
(1) MAKEDON (by Thyia) (Catalogues of Women Frag 3)
Mortal Offspring (Kingdom of Magnesia, Thessalia in Northern Greece)
(1) MAGNES (by Thyia) (Catalogues of Women Frag 3)
Mortal Offspring (Kingdom of the Lapithai, Thessalia in Northern Greece)
(1) PIRITHOOS (by Dia) (Hyginus Fabulae 155)
Mortal Offspring (Kingdom of Phthiotis in Northern Greece)
(1) MYRMIDON (by Eurymedousa) (Clement)
(2) MELITEUS (by Othreis) (Antoninus Liberalis 13)
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Mortal Offspring (Kingdom of Orkhomenos in Central Greece)
(1) TITYOS (by Elare) (Apollodorus 1.23)
Mortal Offspring (Kingdom of Thebes, Boiotia in Central Greece)
(1a) HERAKLES (by Alkmene)
(1b) HERAKLES (by Lysithoe) (De Natura Deorum 3.16.42)
(2) AMPHION & ZETHOS (by Antiope) (Odyssey 11.260, Apollodorus 3.41, Pausanias 2.6.1, Hyginus Fabulae 7)
Mortal Offspring (Kingdoms of Boiotia in Central Greece)
(1) ORION (urination along with the gods Poseidon and Hermes) (Hyginus Fab 195 & Astr 2.34, Ovid Fasti 5.493, Dionysiaca 13.96)
Mortal Offspring (Kingdom of Ithaka & Cephallenia in Central Greece)
(1) ARKEISIOS (Metamorphoses 13.144)
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Mortal Offspring (Kingdom of Megaris in Southern Greece)
(1) MEGAROS (by a Nymphe Sithnis) (Pausanias 1.40.1)
Mortal Offspring (Kingdom of Korinthos in Southern Greece)
(1) KORINTHOS (Pausanias 2.1.1)
Mortal Offspring (Island Kingdom of Aigina in Southern Greece)
(1) AIAKOS (by Aigina) (Catalogues of Women Frag 53, Pindar Isthmian 8, Pindar Nemean 7, Corinna Frag 654, Bacchylides Frag 9, Apollodorus 3.156, Pausanias 2.29.2, Diodorus Siculus 4.72.1, Antoninus Liberalis 38, Hyginus Fab 52, Dionysiaca 13.201)
Mortal Offspring (Kingdoms of the Argolis in Southern Greece)
(1a) ARGOS (The Great Eoiae Frag 1 / Pausanais 2.26.3)
(1b) ARGOS (by Niobe) (Apollodorus 2.2, Pausanias 2.22.5, Hyginus Fabulae 155)
Mortal Offspring (Kingdom of Lakedaimonia in Southern Greece)
(1) LAKEDAIMON (by Taygete) (Apollodorus 3.116, Pausanias 3.12, Hyginus Fab 155, Hyginus Astronomica 2.21, Dionysiaca 32.65)
(2) POLYDEUKES (by Leda) (Catalogues of Women Frag 66, Homeric Hymn XXXII, Pindar Nemean 10, Alcaeus Frag 34, Terpander Frag 5, Hyginus Fabulae 14 & 77 & 80, and other sources)
(3) KASTOR (by Leda) (Catalogues of Women Frag 66, Homeric Hymn XXXII, Alcaeus Frag 34, Terpander Frag 5, Hyginus Fabulae 14, and other sources)
(4a) HELENE (by Leda)
(4b) HELENE (by Nemesis) (Cypria 8, Apolllodoros 3.127f, Hyginus Astronomy 2.
Mortal Offspring (Kingdom of Elis in Southern Greece)
(1a) AITHLIOS (by Kalyke) (Catalogues of Women Frag
(1b) AITHLIOS (by Protogeneia) (Pausanias 5.1.3, Hyginus Fabulae 155)
(2) ENDYMION (by Kalyke) (Apollodorus 1.56)
Mortal Offspring (Kingdom of Olenos, Akhaia in Southern Greece)
(1) KRINAKOS (Catalogues of Women Frag 52 / Diodorus Siculus 5.81.4)
Mortal Offspring (Kingdom of Arkadia in Southern Greece)
(1) ARKAS (by Kallisto) (The Astronomy Frag 3, Apollodorus 3.100, Pausanias 8.3.6, Hyginus Fabulae 176 & Astonomica 2.1, Metamorphoses 2.409)
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Mortal Offspring (Island Kingdom of Samos in the Greek Aegean)
(1) SAON (by a Nymphe) (Diodorus Siculus 5.48.1)
Mortal Offspring (Island Kingdom of Samothrake in the Greek Aegean)
(1) IASION (by Elektra) (Catalogues of Women Frag 102, Apollodorus 3.138, Diodorus Siculus 5.48.2, Hyginus Fab 250)
(2) EMATHION (by Elektra) (Dionysiaca 3.124)
Mortal Offspring (Island Kingdom of Rhodes in the Greek Aegean)
(1) SPARTAIOS, KRONIOS, KYTOS (by Himalia) (Diodorus Siculus 5.55.4)
Mortal Offspring (Island Kingdom of Krete in the Greek Aegean)
(1) MINOS (by Europa) (Catalogues of Women Frag 19A)
(2) RHADAMANTHYS (by Europa) (Catalogues of Women Frag 19A)
(3) ATYMNIOS (by Kassiopeia) (Apollodorus 3.1.2)
(4) BRITOMARTIS (by Karme) (Pausanias 2.30.3, Diodorus Siculus 5.76.3, Antoninus Liberalis 40)
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Mortal Offspring (Kingdom of Troy in Asia Minor)
(1) DARDANOS (by Elektra) (Catalogues of Women Frag 102, Quintus Smyrnaeus 13.545, Apollodorus 3.138, Lycophron 71, Diodorus Siculus 5.48.2, Hyginus Fab 155, Ovid Fasti 4.31, Aeneid 8.134, Dionysiaca 3.124)
Mortal Offspring (Kingdom of Lydia in Asia Minor)
(1a) TANTALOS (by Plouto) (Strabo 12.8.21, Pausanias 2.22.3, Antoninus Liberalis 36, Hyginus Fab 155, Dionysiaca 1.145 & 48.729, Suidas)
(1b) TANTALOS (Strabo 12.8.21, Diodorus Siculus 4.74.1)
(2) AKHILLEUS (by Lamia) (Ptolemy Hephaestion Bk6)
(3) MANES (Dionysius Halicarnassus)
Mortal Offspring (Kingdom of Lykia in Asia Minor)
(1a) SARPEDON (by Laodameia) (Iliad 6.205, Apollodorus 3.1.1)
(1b) SARPEDON (by Europa) (Catalogues of Women Frag 19A, Apollodorus 3.1.1)
(1c) SARPEDON (Apollodorus E3.35)
Mortal Offspring (Kingdom of Kolkhis on the Black Sea)
(1) KOLAXES (by Hora) (Valerius Flaccus)
Mortal Offspring (Kingdom of Skythia on the Black Sea)
(1) TARGITAUS (by Borysthenes' daughter) (Herodotus 4.5.1)
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Mortal Offspring (Kingdom of Aigyptos in North Africa)
(1) EPAPHOS (by Io) (Prometheus Bound 589, Apollodorus 2.5, Strabo 10.1.3, Aelian On Animals 11.10, 145, Metamorphoses 1.750, Dionysiaca 3.257 & 32.65)
Mortal Offspring (Kingdom of Libya in North Africa)
(1) HEROPHILE (by Lamia) (Pausanias 10.12.2)
Mortal Offspring (Kingdom of the Moors in North Africa)
(1) IARBAS (by a Libyan Nymphe) (Aeneid 4.198)
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Mortal Offspring (Kingdom of Lation (Rome) in Central Italia)
(1) LATINOS (by Pandora) (Ioannes Lydus de Mens. i. 13)
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(1) DIVINE LOVES
APHRODITE The Goddess of Love and Beauty was pursued by Zeus when she first emerged from the sea but managed to escape him. According to some, she later had an affair with the god, and through the curses of Hera bore a deformed son: the god Priapos (most sources however say his father was Dionysos).
[See LOVES: ZEUS & APHRODITE]
ASTERIA A Titaness who was pursued by Zeus through the heavens after the fall of the Titan-Gods. She assumed many forms to escape him, but eventually leapt from the heavens in the shape of a quail, and metamorphosed into the island of Delos.
[See LOVES: ZEUS & ASTERIA]
DEMETER The Goddess of Agriculture and Zeus mated in the form of intertwining serpents. From this union the goddess Persephone was born (some say Dionysos was also their son).
[See LOVES: ZEUS & DEMETER]
DIONE A Titaness who, according to some, bore Zeus the goddess Aphrodite (though most accounts say she was born in the sea, grown from the severed genitalia of Ouranos). An even rarer account, makes her the mother of Dionysos, also by Zeus (again contrary to the usual tradition where Dionysos' mother is Semele).
EURYNOME A Titaness who bore Zeus the three Kharites (Graces) and, according to some, the river-god Asopos.
[See LOVES: ZEUS & EURYNOME]
GAIA The Goddess of the Earth was accidentally impregnated by Zeus on two separate occasions: in Phrygia where she gave birth to the goddess Agdistis, and in Kypros where she bore the Kentauroi Kyprioi.
HERA The Queen of the Gods wed Zeus in a secret ceremony back in the days of the Titan-War. She bore him several divine children: Ares, Eileithyia and Hebe (and, according to some, also Eris).
[See LOVES: ZEUS & HERA]
HYBRIS The Goddess of Excessive Pride was, according to some, the mother by Zeus of Pan (though he is usually called a son of Hermes and Penelopeia).
KALLIOPE A Goddess of Music and one of the nine Mousai was, according to one account, the mother of the Korybantes (or Kabeiroi) by Zeus (however, these gods were usually called sons of some other god).
LETO A Titanis who was loved by Zeus. She bore him the twin gods Apollon and Artemis.
[See LOVES: ZEUS & LETO]
METIS The Titaness of Good Counsel was impregnated and then swallowed whole by Zeus, who feared a prophecy that their son would depose him. She gave birth to Athena within the belly of the god, who emerged fully grown from the split skull of Zeus.
[See LOVES: ZEUS & METIS]
MNEMOSYNE The Titaness of Memory was seduced by Zeus in the disguise of a shepherd. He lay with her for nine nights and gave birth to the nine goddesses known as Mousai.
[See LOVES: ZEUS & MNEMOSYNE]
NEMESIS The Goddess of Retribution was seduced by Zeus in the form of a swan. After their union she laid the egg from which Helene of Troy was hatched.
[See LOVES: ZEUS & NEMESIS]
PERSEPHONE The Goddess of Spring (before her abduction to Haides) was seduced by Zeus in the form of a serpentine Drakon. She bore him a son, the short-lived god Zagreos. Later, as goddess of the underworld, she was again seduced by Zeus but this time disguised as her husband Haides.
[See LOVES: ZEUS & PERSEPHONE]
SELENE The Goddess of the Moon bore Zeus two daughters: Pandia and Ersa.
STYX The Goddess of the great Underworld River Styx was, according to one author (perhaps in error), the mother of Persephone by Zeus (all others accounts say her mother was Demeter).
THEMIS The Titaness of Custom and Tradition was one of the first wives of Zeus. She bore him two sets of offspring: the three Horai (Seasons also representing Justice, Peace, Good Governance), the three Moirai (Fates), and in some accounts, of certain Nymphai called the Thriai.
[See LOVES: ZEUS & THEMIS]
THETIS A Goddess of the Sea who was wooed by Zeus. The god abandoned his attempts to seduce her when it was revealed that she was destined to bear a son greater than his father.
[See LOVES: ZEUS & THETIS]
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2) SEMI-DIVINE LOVES (NYMPHAI)
AIGINA A Naias Nymphe of the Argolis (in Southern Greece) who was abducted by Zeus in the shape of a eagle to the island of Aigina where she bore him a son named Aiakos.
[See LOVES: ZEUS & AIGINA]
AIX (aka BOETIS) The Nymphe wife of the god Pan who assumed the form of a she-goat to escape the attentions of Zeus. The god seduced her in this form and she bore him the godling Aegipan (Goat-Pan).
BORYSTHENES' DAUGHTER A Naias of the River Borysthenes in Skythia (North-Eastern Europe) who was loved by Zeus and bore him a son Targitaus.
DEINO The Nymphe mother by Zeus of certain Nymphai.
ELEKTRA A Pleiad Nymphe of the island of Samothrake (in the Greek Aegean), who was loved by Zeus and bore him several sons: Dardanos, Emathion, Iasion.
[See LOVES: ZEUS & ELEKTRA]
HIMALIA A Nymphe of the Island of Rhodes (in the Greek Aegean) who bore Zeus three sons: Spartaios, Kytos and Kronios.
HORA A Nymphe of the Tauric Khersonese [in North-Eastern Europe] who was loved by Zeus and bore him a son Kolaxes.
IO A Naias Nymphe of the Argolis (in Southern Greece) who was loved by Zeus. She was transformed into a heifer by Zeus and driven under torment by Hera all the way to Aigyptos (Egypt in North Africa). There she bore Zeus a son, Epaphos. Some say that she also gave birth to a daughter on the Straits of Bosporos (Asia Minor) named Keroessa.
[See LOVES: ZEUS & IO]
KALLIRHOE A Naias Nymphe of Aitolia (in Central Greece) who was loved by Zeus (no offspring born from this union are mentioned).
[See LOVES: ZEUS & KALLIRHOE]
KARME An Agricultural Nymphe, Lady of Krete (in the Greek Aegean) or Princess of Phoinikia (in West Asia) who was loved by Zeus and bore him a daughter named Britomartis.
MAIA A Pleiad Nymphe of the Arkadia's Mt Kyllene (Southern Greece). She was loved by Zeus and bore him the god Hermes.
NYMPHE UNNAMED (1) A Nymphe of the land of the Moors (in North Africa) who was the mother of Iarbos by Zeus.
NYMPHE UNNAMED (2) A Naias Nymphe of Megaros (in Southern Greece), one of the Sithnides. She was the mother by Zeus of Megaros.
NYMPHE UNNAMED (3) A Nymphe of the island of Samothrake (in the Greek Aegean) who, according to some was the mother of Saon by Zeus.
OTHREIS A Nymphe of Malis (in Northern Greece) who was loved by Zeus and bore him a son named Meliteus.
PLOUTO An Okeanis Nymphe (and Goddess of Wealth) who bore Zeus a son named Tantalos.
SINOPE A Naias Nymphe of the Argolis (in Southern Greece) who was abducted to Assyria (in Asia Minor) by Zeus. He promised her the fulfillment of a wish, and she declared "I wish to remain a virgin".
[See LOVES: ZEUS & SINOPE]
TAYGETE A Pleiad Nymphe of Lakedaimonia's Taygetos Mountain range (in Southern Greece). She was loved by Zeus and bore him a son named Lakedaimon.
THALEIA A Nymphe of Sikelia (Sicily in Southern Italia) who was loved by Zeus and prayed the god hide her beneath the earth to avoid the jealous wrath of Hera. Their sons were the twin Palikoi gods. (According to others, the Palikoi were sons of Hephaistos).
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(3) MORTAL LOVES (WOMEN)
ALKMENE A Lady of Thebes in Boiotia (Central Greece) who was seduced by Zeus in the form of her own husband. She bore twins: Herakles by Zeus and Likymnios by her husband Amphitryon.
[See LOVES: ZEUS & ALKMENE]
ANTIOPE A Lady of Thebes in Boiotia (Central Greece) who was seduced by Zeus in the shape of Satyros. She bore him twin sons Amphion and Zethos which were exposed at birth.
[See LOVES: ZEUS & ANTIOPE]
DANAE A Princess of Argos (in Central Greece) who was imprisoned by her father in a bronze tower. Zeus seduced her in the form of a golden shower, and she gave birth to a son, the hero Perseus.
[See LOVES: ZEUS & DANAE]
DIA A Queen of the Lapith tribe of Thessalia (in Northern Greece), wife of King Ixion. According to some, she was seduced by Zeus, and bore him a son Peirithoos (but others say, the father was her husband Ixion).
ELARE A Princess of Orkhomenos (in Central Greece) who was loved by Zeus. In fear of the wrath of Hera, he hid her beneath the earth, where she gave birth to a son the Gigante Tityos.
[See LOVES: ZEUS & ELARE]
EUROPA A Princess of Phoinikia (Phoenicia in West Asia) who was abducted to Krete )in the Greek Aegean) by Zeus in the form of a bull. She bore him three sons: Minos, Sarpedon and Rhadamanthys.
[See LOVES: ZEUS & EUROPA]
EURYMEDOUSA A Princess of Phthiotis (in Northern Greece) who was seduced by Zeus in the form of an ant. Their son was named Myrmidon (Ant-Man).
[See LOVES: ZEUS & EURYMEDOUSA]
KALLISTO A Princess of Arkadia (in Southern Greece) who was seduced by Zeus in the guise of the goddess Artemis. She was transformed into a bear by a wrathful goddess into a bear and in this form bare a son named Arkas.
[See LOVES: ZEUS & KALLISTO]
KALYKE A Queen of Elis (in Southern Greece), the wife of King Aithlios. She was the mother by Zeus (or by her husband Aithlios) of Endymion.
KASSIOPEIA A Lady of Krete (in the Greek Aegean) who bore Zeus a son named Atymnios.
LAMIA A Queen of Libya (in North Africa) who was loved by Zeus. When the jealous Hera stole her children by the god - Herophile and Akhilleus - she was driven mad with grief.
[See LOVES: ZEUS & LAMIA]
LAODAMEIA A Princess of Lykia (in Asia Minor) who was loved by Zeus and bore him a son, Sarpedon.
LEDA A Queen of Lakedaimonia (in Southern Greece) who was seduced by Zeus in the form of swan. She laid an egg from which were hatched the Dioskouroi twins - one Polydeukes was the son of Zeus, the other Kastor the son of her husband Tyndareus. According to some, she was also the mother of egg-hatched Helene (though others say this egg was given her by the goddess Nemesis).
[See LOVES: ZEUS & LEDA]
LYSITHOE A woman who bore Zeus a son named Herakles (a man with the same name as the famous hero).
NIOBE A Princess of Argolis (in Southern Greece). She was the very first mortal woman loved by Zeus, and bore him two sons: Argos and Pelasgos (though according to others Pelasgos was a son of Poseidon or Earth-Born)..
[See LOVES: ZEUS & NIOBE]
OLYMPIAS An (historical) Queen of Makedonia, and mother of Alexandros the Great. According to legend, her son was fathered by the god Zeus.
[See LOVES: ZEUS & OLYMPIA]
PANDORA A Princess of the combined kingdoms of Northern & Central Greece. She was loved by Zeus and bore him two sons: Latinos and Graikos.
PROTOGENEIA A Princess of combined kingdoms Northern & Central Greece who was loved by Zeus. she bore him a son Aithlios.
PYRRHA A Queen of the combined kingdoms Northern & Central Greece, and wife of Deukalion, they were the couple who survived the Great Deluge. According to some, her first born son, Hellen, was fathered by Zeus (though others say Deukalion was the father).
SEMELE A Princess of Thebes in Boiotia (Central Greece) who was loved by Zeus, but through the machinations of Hera was consumed by the heat of his lightning bolts. Zeus rescued their unborn son, Dionysos, from her body and sewed him up in his thigh until he was old enought to be born.
[See LOVES: ZEUS & SEMELE]
THYIA A Princess of Northern & Central Greece who was loved by Zeus. She bore him two sons: Magnes and Makedon.
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(4) MORTAL LOVES (MEN)
GANYMEDES A Prince of Troy (in Asia Minor) who was abducted to Olympos by Zeus in the form of an eagle to be his lover and the cupbearer of the gods.
[See LOVES: ZEUS & GANYMEDES]