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A GUIDE TO THE LOVERS & CHILDREN OF ZEUS KING OF THE GODS

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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)
(Cool 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.Cool
(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.Cool

Mortal Offspring (Kingdom of Elis in Southern Greece)

(1a) AITHLIOS (by Kalyke) (Catalogues of Women Frag Cool
(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]





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« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2008, 01:02:31 am »

(1) DIVINE OFFSPRING
AGDISTIS A Hermaphroditic God born when Zeus accidentally impregnated Gaia the Earth. Fearful of this strange creature the gods castrated it, and it became the goddess Kybele. [Agdistis and Kybele and their parents were Phrygian gods later identified with Greek counterparts].

AIGIPAN A Rustic God, son of Zeus and Aix or Boetis (the wife of Pan).

ALATHEIA The Goddess of Truth was a daughter of Zeus.

APHRODITE The Goddess of Love was, according to some, a daughter of Zeus and the Titaness Dione (most accounts, however, say she was born in the sea from the severed genitals of Ouranos).

APOLLON The God of Music, Prophecy and Healing was a son of Zeus and the Titaness Leto.

ARES The God of War was a son of Zeus and his wife Hera.

ARTEMIS The Goddess of Hunting and Protectress of Young Girls was a daughter of Zeus and the Titaness Leto.

ASOPOS The God of the River Asopos in Argos (Southern Greece) was, according to some, the son of Zeus and Eurynome (most accounts, however, call him a son of Okeanos and Tethys).

ATE The Goddess of Blind Folly and Ruin was, according to some, a daughter of Zeus (others say she was born fatherless to Eris).

ATHENA The Goddess of Warcraft, Wisdom and Craft was sprung directly from the head of Zeus. Her mother was the Titaness Metis whom Zeus had swallowed whole in pregnancy.

BRITOMARTIS The Goddess of Hunting and Fishing Nets was a daughter of Zeus and the Nymphe Karme.

DIKE The Goddess of Justice, one of the three Horai, was a daughter of Zeus and the Titaness Themis.

DIONYSOS The God of Wine and Debauchery was a son of Zeus and Semele (or in a few unorthodox accounts, of Zeus and Demeter or Dione).

EILEITHYIA The Goddess (or Goddesses) of Childbirth were daughters of Zeus and Hera.

EIRENE The Goddess of Peace, one of the three Horai, was a daughter of Zeus and the Titaness Themis.

ERIS (aka ENYO) The Goddess of Strife and Warfare was, according to some, a daughter of Zeus and Hera (most, however, say she was a daughter of Nyx).

ERSA The Goddess of the Dew was a daughter of Zeus and the Titaness Selene.

EUNOMIA The Goddess of Good Governance, one of the three Horai, was a daughter of Zeus and the Titaness Themis.

HARMONIA The Goddess of Harmony was, according to one author, a daughter of Zeus and the Pleiad Elektra (the usual account makes her a daughter of Ares and Aphrodite who was only fostered by the Pleiad).

HEBE The Goddess of Youth was a daughter of Zeus and Hera.

HEPHAISTOS The God of Smiths was, according to some, a son of Zeus and Hera (though many say Hera conceived him without the assistance of Zeus).

HERMES The God of Merchants, Shepherds and Messengers was a son of Zeus and the Pleiad Maia.

HORAI, THE The three Goddesses of the Seasons (Dike, Eirene, and Eunomia) were daughters of Zeus and the Titaness Themis.

KAIROS The God of Opportunity was the youngest divine son of Zeus.

KHARITES, THE The three Goddesses of Grace, Beauty and Mirth (named Aglaia, Euphrosyne and Thaleia) were daughters of Zeus and the Titaness Eurynome.

LITAI, THE The elderly Goddesses of Prayer were daughters of Zeus.

MELINOE A Demon Goddess of the Underworld, whose body was half black and half white. She as a daughter of Zeus and Persephone.

MOIRAI, THE The three Goddesses of Fate and Destiny (Atropos, Lakhesis and Klotho) were, according to some, daughters of Zeus and the Titaness Themis (others say they were daughters of Nyx, Ananke or Khaos).

MOUSAI, THE The nine Goddesses of Music and Song (named Kalliope, Terpsikhore, Kleio, Euterpe, Ourania, Thaleia, Polyhymnia, Melpomene, Erato) were daughters of Zeus and the Titaness Mnemosyne.

PALIKOI, THE Twin Gods of the Geysers of Palikoi in Sikelia (Sicily in Southern Italia). They were, according to some, the sons of Zeus and Thaleia (but others say they were sons of Hephaistos and Aitna).

PAN The God of Shepherds was, according to one author, the son of Zeus and Hybris (but others invariably call him a son of Hermes).

PERSEPHONE The Goddess of the Underworld and Renewal of Spring was a daughter of Zeus and Demeter (or, according to one account, of Zeus and Styx).

PHASIS The God of the River Phasis of Kolkhis (in the Kaukasos, Europe / Asia border) was, according to some, a son of Zeus (other say he was a son of Okeanos and Tethys like the other Rivers).

ZAGREOS The God Zagreos was a son of Zeus and his own daughter Persephone. He was slain by the Titanes, but Zeus recovered the child's heart and fed it to Semele and Zagreos was reborn as the god Dionysos. [Zagreos and his parents were originally Gods of Thrake, later identified with Greek counterparts.]
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(2) SEMI-DIVINE OFFSPRING

KABEIROI, THE The Gods of the Mysteries of Samothrake were, according to some, sons of Zeus and the Mousa Kalliope (most, however, call them sons of Hephaistos and Kabeiro).

KORYBANTES, THE The shield-clashing, dancing Attendants of Rhea-Kybele were, according to onesource, sons of Zeus and the Mousa Kalliope (but most attribute a variety of more likely parents to these demigods).

NEMEA A Minor Goddess or Nymphe, daughter of Zeus and the Titaness Selene.

NYMPHAI, THE Nymphai in general were sometimes called the daughters of Zeus.

PANDEIA A Minor Goddess or Nymphe, daughter of Zeus and the Titaness Selene.

THRIAI, THE The three Goddess-Nymphai of Divination by Pebbles were daughters of Zeus and the Titaness Themis.
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(3) MORTAL OFFSPRING

AIAKOS A King of the island of Aigina (in Southern Greece). He as the son of Zeus and the Nymphe Aigina.
[See FAMILY: ZEUS & HIS SON AIAKOS]

AITHLIOS The first King of Elis (in Southern Greece), son of Zeus and either Protogeneia or Kalyke.

AKHILLEUS A Lydian boy (Asia Minor), son of Zeus and Lamia, who contested with the goddess Aphrodite in beauty.

ALEXANDROS (THE GREAT) An (historical) King of Makedonia (of Northern Greece) and later Conqueror of much of the known world. He was, according to legend, a son of Zeus born to the Makedonian Queen Olympia. [This is a unique example of an historical personage bestowed with mythic origins].

AMPHION A King of Thebes in Boiotia (Central Greece). He was a twin son of Zeus and Antiope.

ARGOS The first King and Eponym of Argos (in Southern Greece). He was a son of Zeus and Niobe.

ARKAS A King and Eponym of Arkadia (in Southern Greece), son of Zeus and Kallisto.

ARKEISIOS A King of the islands of Ithaka and Kephallenia (in Central Greece). He was a son of Zeus, or according to others, of Kephalos and Prokris.

ATYMNIOS A Lord of Krete (in the Greek Aegean). He was a son of Zeus and Kassiopeia.

DARDANOS The first King of the Troad (in Asia Minor). He was a son of Zeus and Elektra, born on the island of Samothrake.

DIOSKOUROI, THE Twin Princes of Lakedaimonia (in Southern Greece) born from an egg laid by Queen Leda. One of the pair, Polydeukes, was fathered by Zeus, but the other, Kastor, was the son of Leda's husband Tyndareus.

EMATHION A King of the island of Samothrake (in the Greek Aegean). He was a son of Zeus and Elektra.

ENDYMION A King of Elis (in Southern Greece). He was the son of Kalyke, either by Zeus or her husband Aithlios.

EPAPHOS A King of Aigyptos (Egypt, in North Africa), son of Zeus and the much-suffering Io.

GRAIKOS A King of the Graikoi tribe of the Pindar Mountains (in Northern Greece). He was a son of Zeus and Thyia.

HELENE A Queen of Sparta (in Southern Greece), wife of Menelaus, who eloped to Troy with her lover Paris. She was a daughter of Zeus by Leda or the goddess Nemesis.

HELLEN A King of Northern & Central Greece and Eponym of the Hellenes (or Greeks). He was, according to some, a son of Zeus and Pyrrha (though others say his father was Pyrrha's husband Deukalion).

HERAKLES (1) The greatest of the Greek heroes. He was born in the Boiotian city of Thebes (in Central Greece) to Alkmene who was seduced by Zeus in the form of her own husband.

HERAKLES (2) A son of Zeus and Lysithoe. According to some, he was a hero who was confused with the younger Herakles (1).

HEROPHILE A Sibylla (or Prophetess) of Libya (in North Africa) and later Delphoi in Phokis (Central Greece). She was a daughter of Zeus and the Libyan queen Lamia.

IARBAS A King of the Moors (of North Africa). He was a son of Zeus and an African Nymphe.

IASION A Prince of the Island of Samothrake (in the Greek Aegean) and Chief-Priest of the Samothrakian Mysteries. He was a son of Zeus and Elektra.

KENTAUROI KYRPIOI, THE A tribe of Kentauroi (Centaurs) from the island of Kypros (in the Eastern Meditteranean). They sprang from Gaia the Earth when Zeus accidentally impregnated his failed attempt to make love to Aphrodite.

KEROESSA A Nymphe or Princess of Byzantion (on the Bosporos Strait separating Europe and Asia). She was a daughter of Zeus and Io, and mother of Byzas (founder of the famed city).

KOLAXES A Lord of the Tauric Khersonese (in North-Eastern Europe), son of Zeus and the Nymphe Hora.

KORINTHOS A King and Eponym of Korinthos (in Southern Greece). He was a son of Zeus (or, according to others, of Epopeus).

KRINAKOS A King of Olenos, Akhaia (in Southern Greece). He was a son of Zeus.

KRONIOS A Lord of the island of Rhodes (in the Greek Aegean), one of three sons borne to Zeus and the Nymphe Himalia.

KYTOS A Lord of the island of Rhodes (in the Greek Aegean), one of three sons borne to Zeus and the Nymphe Himalia.

LAKEDAIMON The first King of Lakedaimonia (aka Sparta) (in Southern Greece). He was a son of Zeus and the Pleiad Taygete.

LATINOS A King of Latium (in Central Italia), son of Zeus and Pandora.

MAGNES The first King and Eponym of Magnesia (in Thessalia, Northern Greece). He was a son of Zeus and Thyia (or, according to others, of Aiolos and Enarete).

MAKEDON The first King and Eponym of Makedonia (in Northern Greece). He was a son of Zeus and Thyia.

MANES The first King of Lydia (in Asia Minor), a son of Zeus and Gaia.

MEGAROS The first King of Megara (in Southern Greece), son of Zeus and a Sithnid Nymphe.

MELITEUS A Lord and Eponym of the town of Melite in Phthiotis (in Northern Greece). He was a son of Zeus and Othris.

MINOS A King of the island of Krete (in the Greek Aegean). He was a son of Zeus and Europa.

MYRMIDON A King of Phthiotis (in Northern Greece) and Epynom of the Myrmidones tribe. He was a son of Zeus and Eurymedousa.

ORION A Gigante who was born in answer to the prayers of the childless Boiotian (of Central Greece) King Hyrieus. He was conceived by three gods - Zeus, Hermes and Poseidon - who urinated upon a bull's hide and buried it in the earth, to grow an earth-born infant.

PELASGOS A King of Arkadia or Argos (in Southern Greece) and Eponym of the Pelasgian tribes. He was a son of Zeus and Niobe (though others calls him a son of Poseidon and Larissa or an Autokhthon (Earth-Born).

PEIRITHOUS A King of the Lapithai tribe of Thessalia (Northern Greece) who, according to some, was a son of Zeus and Dia (though most authors say the father was Dia's husband King Ixion).

PERSEUS A Hero and later King of Argos then Mykenai (in the Argolis, Southern Greece). He was the son of Zeus and Danae.

POLYDEUKES A Prince of Lakedaimonia (in Southern Greece) who with his twin-brother were known as the Dioskouroi. Polydeukes was the son of Zeus and Leda, while his twin brother was the son of Leda's husband Tyndareus.

RHADAMANTHYS A Lawmaker of Krete (in the Greek Aegean), and later resident of Thebes in Boiotia (Central Greece). Rhadamanthys was a son of Zeus and Europa.

SAON The first King of the island of Samothrake (in the Greek Aegean). According to some he was the son of Zeus and a local Nymphe (but others say he was a son of Hermes and Rhene).

SARPEDON A King of Lykia (in Asia Minor) who fought in the Trojan War. He was a son of Zeus and Laodameia or Europa (some say there were actually two Sarpedons).

SPARTAIOS A Lord of the island of Rhodes (in the Greek Aegean), one of three sons borne to Zeus and the Nymphe Himalia.

TANTALOS A criminally minded King of Lydia (in Asia Minor), son of Zeus and the Okeanis Plouto.

TARGITAUS The first King of the Skythia (in North-Eastern Europe), son of Zeus and the daughter of Borysthenes.

TITYOS A Gigante of Orkhomenos (in Central Greece) who was, according to some, a son of Zeus and Elare (though others say he was a fatherless son of Gaia the Earth).

ZETHOS A King of Thebes in Boiotia (Central Greece). He was a twin son of Zeus and Antiope.


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« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2008, 01:04:44 am »

ORDER OF GODDESSES LOVED BY ZEUS
Before his marriage to Hera, Zeus consorted with a number of the female-Titanes (and his sister Demeter). The romances occurred in the following order:
(1) METIS
(2) THEMIS
(3) EURYNOME
(4) DEMETER
(5) MNEMOSYNE
(6) LETO
(some authors add DIONE and PERSEPHONE to this list, as well Zeus' unsuccesful attempts to seduce the goddesses ASTERIA and APHRODITE).

While Leto was pregnant with Apollon, Zeus made Hera his wife and queen. The goddess was angry that it would be Leto and not she who would bear Zeus his first son, and tormented her during her pregnancy, driving her from land to land and calling on the Titanes to attack her.
According to the Orphics, it was Persephone (and not Leto) who bore the Zeus' first-born son, the god Zagreus. Hera conspired with the Titanes againt him: sneaking into Olympos, they caught, dismembered and devoured the child.
(7) HERA

Following his marriage to Hera, Zeus secretly fathered Hermes on the Nymphe Maia. But his subsequent affair with the Nymphe Io was discovered by Hera, who tormented the girl and later urged the Titanes to kidnap their son Epaphos.
(Cool MAIA
(9) IO


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« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2008, 01:05:10 am »

Hermes was the last god to be born to Zeus during the Titan-Wars. After vanquishing the Titanes Zeus pursued a long list of affairs with minor goddesses, Nymphai, and mortal women. Of these two were to bear him divine offspring, namely Semele the mother of Dionysos and Alkmene the mother of Herakles (born mortal but deified in death).
(10+) Order difficult to determine. The first mortal woman loved by Zeus was Niobe, daughter of King Deukalion (survivor of the Great Deluge).
"Now Zeus, king of the gods, made Metis his wife first, and she was wisest among gods and mortal men. But when she was about to bring forth the goddess bright-eyed Athene, Zeus craftily deceived her with cunning words and put her in his own belly ...
Next he married bright Themis who bare the Horai (Seasons), and Eunomia (Order), Dike (Justice), and blooming Eirene (Peace), who mind the works of mortal men, and the Moirai (Fates) to whom wise Zeus gave the greatest honour, Klotho, and Lakhesis, and Atropos who give mortal men evil and good to have.
And Eurynome, the daughter of Okeanos, beautiful in form, bare him three fair-cheeked Kharites (Graces), Aglaia, and Euphrosyne, and lovely Thaleia, from whose eyes as they glanced flowed love that unnerves the limbs: and beautiful is their glance beneath their brows.
Also he came to the bed of all-nourishing Demeter, and she bare white-armed Persephone whom Aidoneus carried off from her mother; but wise Zeus gave her to him.
And again, he loved Mnemosyne with the beautiful hair: and of her the nine gold-crowned Muses were born who delight in feasts and the pleasures of song.
And Leto was joined in love with Zeus who holds the aegis, and bare Apollo and Artemis delighting in arrows, children lovely above all the sons of Heaven.
Lastly, he made Hera his blooming wife: and she was joined in love with the king of gods and men, and brought forth Hebe and Ares and Eileithyia.
But Zeus himself gave birth from his own head to bright-eyed Tritogeneia [Athena, whose mother Metis had earlier been swallowed whole by Zeus], the awful, the strife-stirring, the host-leader, the unwearying, the queen, who delights in tumults and wars and battles ...
And Maia, the daughter of Atlas, bare to Zeus glorious Hermes, the herald of the deathless gods, for she went
up into his holy bed.
And Semele, daughter of Kadmos was joined with him in love and bare him a splendid son, joyous Dionysos, -- a mortal woman an immortal son. And now they both are gods.
And Alkmena was joined in love with Zeus who drives the clouds and bare mighty Herakles." -Theogony 886
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« Reply #4 on: January 02, 2008, 01:06:51 am »

GENERAL LIST OF SONS
"Sons of Jove [Zeus]: Liber [Zagreos] by Proserpina, whom the Titanes dismembered; Hercules by Alcmena Liber [Dionysos] by Semele, daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia; Castor and Pollux by leda, daughter of Thestius; Argus by Niobe, daughter of Phoroneus; Epaphus by Io, daughter of Inachus; Perseus by Danae, daughter of Acrisius; Zethus and Amphion by Antiope, daughter of Nycteus; Minos, Sarpedon and Rhadamanthus by Europa, daughter of Agenor; Hellen by Pyrrha, daughter of Epimetheus; Aethlius by Protogenia, daughter of Deucalion; Dardanus by Electra, daughter of Atlas; Lacedaemon by Taygete, daughter of Atlas; Tantalus by Pluto, daughter of Himas; Aeacus by Aegina, daughter of Asopus; Aegipan by the she-goat Boetis; Arcas by Callisto, daughter of Lycaon; Pirithous by Dia, daughter of Deioneus." -Hyginus Fabulae 155
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ZEUS & THE COMBINED KINGDOMS OF GREECE (IN NORTHERN GREECE)

LOVED: PYRRHA Queen of Northern-Central Greece; PROTOGENEIA Princess of Northern-Central Greece; PANDORA Princess of Northern-Central Greece; THYIA Princess of Northern-Central Greece
SIRED: HELLEN King of the Northern-Central Greece

After the Great Deluge Deukalion and Pyrrha became the symbolic rulers of the whole of Greece. They ruled from the city of Oupis in Lokris with a dominion encompassing the northern and central Greek kingdoms of Thessalia, Malis, Phokis, Boiotia and Lokris.
Most of the Kingdoms of Greece were founded by descendants of the pair.
Their first son Hellen (King of all the Hellenes or Greeks) was said to have been fathered by Zeus.
Furthermore three of their daughters mated with Zeus:
- Thyia was the mother by the god of Magnes (first King of Magnesia and Pieria) and Makedon (first King of Makedonia);
- Pandora was the mother of Graikos (first King of the Graikoi, near Dodona);
- and Protogeneia was the mother of Aithlios (first King of Elis).

(1) HELLEN King of Northern-Central Greece

“The children of Deukalion and Pyrrha were, first, Hellen (whom some say Zeus sired).” -Apollodorus 1.49

"Sons of Jove [Zeus] ... Hellen by Pyrrha, daughter of Epimetheus." -Hyginus Fabulae 155


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