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Zeus
Zeus, the supreme god
- Paus. 8.36.5
- son of Cronus and Rhea: Apollod. 1.1.6
- child of Cronus and Rhea, saved from his father's maw by ruse of Rhea: Paus. 8.8.2, Paus. 8.36.3, Paus. 9.2.7, Paus. 9.41.6, Paus. 10.24.6
- born in a cave of Dicte in Crete: Apollod. 1.1.6
- born and brought up in Messenia on Mount Lycaeus: Paus. 4.33.1, Paus. 8.36.3, Paus. 8.38.2
- at birth washed in Gortynius river: Paus. 8.28.2
- fed by nymphs: Apollod. 1.1.6
- guarded by Curetes: Apollod. 1.1.6, Apollod. 1.1.7
- entrusted for safety at birth to Idaean Dactyls or Curetes by Rhea: Paus. 4.33.1, Paus. 5.7.6
- makes war on the Titans: Apollod. 1.2.1
- releases the Cyclopes from Tartarus and receives thunder and lightning from them: Apollod. 1.2.1
- smites the giants with a thunderbolt: Apollod. 1.6.1, Apollod. 1.6.2
- shuts up the Titans in Tartarus: Apollod. 1.2.1
- wrestles at Olympia with Cronus for kingdom: Paus. 5.7.10, Paus. 8.2.2
- casts lots with his brothers Poseidon and Pluto for the sovereignty: Apollod. 1.2.1
- allotted the dominion of the sky: Apollod. 1.2.1
- reigns in the three realms of nature -- sky, earth, and sea: Paus. 2.24.4
- and Poseidon rivals for the hand of Thetis: Apollod. 3.13.4
- ordains oaths by the water of Styx: Apollod. 1.2.2
- Hermes servant of Zeus: Paus. 8.32.4
- prayed to for rain: Paus. 1.24.3, Paus. 2.29.8
- jar of blessings and jar of woes at his side: Paus. 8.24.14
- in love with maiden Hera: Paus. 2.17.4
- changes himself into a cuckoo: Paus. 2.17.4, Paus. 2.36.1
- reconciled to Hera by stratagem: Paus. 9.3.1 ff.
- marries Hera: Apollod. 1.2.6
- on his marriage receives the apples of the Hesperides from Earth: Apollod. 2.5.11
- and Hera refer their dispute to Tiresias as arbiter: Apollod. 3.6.7
- grants Tiresias the art of soothsaying: Apollod. 3.6.7
- hangs Hera from Olympus: Apollod. 1.3.5, Apollod. 2.6.4
- casts Hephaestus out of heaven: Apollod. 1.3.5
- his intrigues with Callisto: Paus. 1.25.1, Paus. 8.3.6, with Carme: Paus. 2.30.3, with Io: Paus. 1.25.1, with Lamia: Paus. 10.12.1, with Niobe: Paus. 2.22.5, with Pluto: Paus. 2.22.3, with Semele: Paus. 3.24.3, with Taygete: Paus. 3.1.2, with Thebe: Paus. 5.22.6
- his offspring: Apollod. 1.2.6, Apollod. 1.3.1
- father of Aethlius: Paus. 5.1.3, of Agdistis: Paus. 7.17.10, of Argus: Paus. 2.22.5, Paus. 2.26.2, of Britomartis: Paus. 2.30.3, of Dionysus: Paus. 3.24.3, of Graces: Paus. 9.35.5, of Helen: Paus. 1.33.7, of Lacedaemon: Paus. 3.1.2, of Megareus: Paus. 1.40.1, of younger Muses: Paus. 9.29.4, of Opportunity: Paus. 5.14.9, of Pirithous: Paus. 5.10.8, of the Seasons: Paus. 5.11.7, of Tantalus: Paus. 2.22.3
- father of Hellen by Pyrrha: Apollod. 1.7.2, Apollod. 1.7.3
- of Aethlius by Protogenia: Apollod. 1.7.3
- father of Castor and Pollux by Leda: Apollod. 1.8.2, Apollod. 1.9.17
- has intercourse with Metis: Apollod. 1.3.5
- swallows the pregnant Metis: Apollod. 1.3.5, Apollod. 1.3.6
- Athena born from his head: Apollod. 1.3.6, Paus. 1.24.2
- makes love to Asteria: Apollod. 1.3.6
- father of Pan by Hybris: Apollod. 1.4.1
- father of Tityus by Elare: Apollod. 1.4.1, Apollod. 1.4.1
- father of Iasion and Dardanus by Electra: Apollod. 1.4.5
- carries off Aegina, daughter of Asopus: Apollod. 1.9.2, Paus. 2.5.1, Paus. 2.29.2
- carries off Aegina and has a son Aeacus by her: Apollod. 3.12.5, Apollod. 3.12.6
- hurls thunderbolts at Asopus: Apollod. 3.12.6
- seduces Io and turns her into a white cow: Apollod. 2.1.3
- orders Hermes to steal Io: Apollod. 2.1.3
- father of Argus and Pelasgus by Niobe: Apollod. 1.9.28, Apollod. 2.1.1, Apollod. 3.7.7
- in shape of stream of gold impregnates Danae: Apollod. 2.4.1
- his prediction concerning the descendant of Perseus: Apollod. 2.4.5
- in likeness of Amphitryo lies with Alcmena: Paus. 5.18.3
- in likeness of Amphitryon begets Herakles on Alcmena: Apollod. 2.4.7, Apollod. 2.4.8
- father of Rhadamanthys: Apollod. 2.4.11
- Prometheus offers himself to Zeus to be immortal instead of Chiron: Apollod. 2.5.4, Apollod. 2.5.11
- Europa ferried by bull for: Apollod. 2.5.6
- parts Apollo and Herakles: Apollod. 2.6.2
- rescues wounded Herakles: Apollod. 2.6.4
- Cenaean, altar of: Apollod. 2.7.7
- Paternal, altars of: Apollod. 2.8.3
- as a bull, carries Europa to Crete: Apollod. 3.1.1
- begets Minos, Sarpedon, and Rhadamanthys by Europa: Apollod. 3.1.1
- grants Sarpedon to live for three generations: Apollod. 3.1.2
- father of Atymnius by Cassiepea: Apollod. 3.1.2
- Atabyrian, altar of: Apollod. 3.1.4
- gives Harmonia in marriage to Cadmus : Apollod. 3.4.2
- gives necklace to Europa: Apollod. 3.4.2
- loves Semele: Apollod. 3.4.2
- visits her with thunder and lightning: Apollod. 3.4.3
- sews up the abortive infant Dionysus in his thigh: Apollod. 3.4.3
- gives birth to Dionysus in due time and entrusts him to Hermes: Apollod. 3.4.3
- turns Dionysus into a kid: Apollod. 3.4.3
- father of Amphion and Zethus by Antiope: Apollod. 3.5.5, Apollod. 3.5.5, Apollod. 3.10.1
- Niobe prays to: Apollod. 3.5.6
- kills Capaneus with a thunderbolt: Apollod. 3.6.7
- cleaves the earth by a thunderbolt: Apollod. 3.12
- makes Amphiaraus immortal: Apollod. 3.6.8
- consorts with Callirrhoe and grants that her sons should be suddenly full grown: Apollod. 3.7.6
- in disguise visits Lycaon and his sons, is tempted by them with human sacrifices, and blasts them by thunderbolts: Apollod. 3.8.1
- in the likeness of Artemis or Apollo forces Callisto, turns her into a bear, then into the constellation called the Bear: Apollod. 3.8.2
- gives her child Arcas to Maia to bring up: Apollod. 3.8.2
- Melanion and Atalanta have intercourse in a precinct of: Apollod. vol. 2.401
- consorts with the daughters of Atlas: Apollod. 3.10.1
- father of Hermes by Maia: Apollod. 3.10.1
- orders Hermes to restore the stolen kine to Apollo: Apollod. 3.10.2
- father of Lacedaemon by Taygete: Apollod. 3.10.2
- smites Aesculapius with a thunderbolt to prevent men from learning the healing art: Apollod. 3.10.3
- Cyclopes forge thunderbolts for: Apollod. 3.10.3
- orders Apollo to serve a man for a year as expiation for the slaughter of the Cyclopes: Apollod. 3.10.3, Apollod. 3.10.4
- as a swan consorts with Leda and begets Pollux and Helen: Apollod. 3.10.5
- according to others, he got Helen on Nemesis: Apollod. 3.10.7
- smites Idas with a thunderbolt: Apollod. 3.11.2
- raises Pollux to heaven: Apollod. 3.11.2
- allows Castor and Pollux to be among gods and mortals on alternate days: Apollod. 3.11.2
- Ganymede carried off to be cup-bearer to Zeus: Paus. 5.24.5
- carries off Ganymede on an eagle and makes him cupbearer to the gods: Apollod. 3.12.2
- gives the Palladium as a sign to Ilus: Apollod. 3.12.3
- interposes the aegis between Athena and Pallas: Apollod. 3.12.3
- throws the Palladium into the Ilian country: Apollod. 3.12.3
- father of Asopus by Eurynome: Apollod. 3.12.5
- helps Pluto to carry off Persephone: Apollod. 1.4.5
- culls a magic simple: Apollod. 1.6.1
- inspires Porphyrion with lust for Hera: Apollod. 1.6.1
- his combat with Typhon: Apollod. 1.6.3, Apollod. 1.6.3
- his sinews cut by Typhon and restored by Hermes and Aegipan: Apollod. 1.6.3, Apollod. 1.6.3
- casts Etna on Typhon: Apollod. 1.6.3
- orders Hephaestus to nail Prometheus to the Caucasus: Apollod. 1.7.1
- resolves to destroy the men of the Bronze Age and causes the great flood: Apollod. 1.7.1, Apollod. 1.7.2
- Deucalion sacrifices to Zeus, God of Escape: Apollod. 1.7.2
- sends Hermes to Deucalion: Apollod. 1.7.2
- bids Deucalion throw stones over his head: Apollod. 1.7.2
- turns Ceyx and Alcyone into birds for their presumption: Apollod. 1.7.4
- claim of Ceyx to be: Apollod. 1.7.4
- gives Endymion his choice: Apollod. 1.7.5
- parts Apollo and Idas: Apollod. 1.7.7
- makes Oeneus fall in love with his own daughter: Apollod. 1.8.3
- Phrixus ordered to be sacrificed to: Apollod. 1.8.6
- Zeus, God of Escape, the ram with the golden fleece sacrificed to: Apollod. 1.9.1
- Salmoneus's mimickry of: Apollod. 1.9.5, Apollod. 1.9.5
- kills Salmoneus by a thunderbolt: Apollod. 1.9.5, Apollod. 1.9.5
- kills Salmoneus by a thunderbolt: Apollod. 1.9.5
- angry with the Argonauts for the murder of Apsyrtus: Apollod. 1.9.23, Apollod. 1.9.24
- orders Athena and Hermes to purify the Danaids: Apollod. 2.1.5
- turns vixen and dog to stone: Apollod. 2.4.7
- turns ants into men for Aeacus: Apollod. 3.12.6
- changes the nymphs at Nysa into the Hyades: Apollod. 3.4.3
- angry with Actaeon for wooing Semele: Apollod. 3.4.3
- instigates Actaeon's dogs to devour him: Apollod. 3.4.4
- sends Cadmus and Harmonia to the Elysian Fields: Apollod. 3.5.4
- appoints arbiters between Poseidon and Athena in the dispute for the possession of Attica: Apollod. 3.14.1, Apollod. 3.14.1
- decides the dispute between Aphrodite and Persephone about Adonis: Apollod. 3.14.4
- Minos prays for vengeance on Athens to: Apollod. 3.15.8
- makes a cloud in the likeness of Hera and lays it beside Ixion: Apollod. E.1.20
- binds Ixion to a wheel: Apollod. E.1.20
- compact of Theseus and Pirithous to marry daughters of: Apollod. E.1.22
- sends Hermes to Atreus with a message: Apollod. E.2.10
- sons of Thyestes slaughtered by Atreus on an altar of: Apollod. E.2.13
- wills that Europe and Asia should be embroiled: Apollod. E.2.15
- wills that Hermes should carry Helen to Egypt: Apollod. E.3.3
- sign of the serpent and the sparrows given at Aulis by: Apollod. E.3.13
- Zeus of the Courtyard, Priam slain at the altar of: Apollod. E.5.21
- asked by Athena to send a storm on the Greeks: Apollod. E.6.4
- appoints Aeolus keeper of the winds: Apollod. E.7.8
- the Sun reports the slaughter of his kine to: Apollod. E.7.21
- strikes Odysseus with a thunderbolt: Apollod. E.7.21
- strangers sacrificed to, by Busiris: Apollod. 2.5.11, Apollod. 2.5.11
- gives Phidias a sign of his approbation: Paus. 5.11.9
- sends oracle to Athenians from Dodona: Paus. 7.25.1
- Lycurgus the Spartan dear to Zeus, in an oracle, etc.: Hdt. 1.65, Hdt. 1.89, Hdt. 1.131, Hdt. 1.174, Hdt. 1.207, Hdt. 2.13, Hdt. 2.116, Hdt. 2.136, Hdt. 2.146, Hdt. 3.124, Hdt. 6.67, Hdt. 7.56, Hdt. 7.61, Hdt. 7.141, Hdt. 7.221, Hdt. 8.77, Hdt. 9.122
- colonnade of Zeus: Paus. 10.21.6, games: Paus. 2.24.2
- precinct of Lycaean Zeus within which neither man nor beast casts a shadow: Paus. 8.38.6
- priests: Paus. 1.24.4, Paus. 2.15.3, Paus. 4.33.2, Paus. 5.15.10, Paus. 8.38.4
- sacrifices to: Paus. 1.16.1, Paus. 1.24.4, Paus. 1.28.10, Paus. 2.15.3, Paus. 5.13.10, Paus. 5.14.1, 4, Paus. 6.8.2, Paus. 8.2.3, Paus. 8.38.7, Paus. 9.39.5
- shield dedicated to: Paus. 10.21.5
- stone called Zeus Cappotas: Paus. 3.22.1
- represented beardless: Paus. 5.24.6, as a child: Paus. 7.24.4, with three eyes: Paus. 2.24.3 ff.
- Altars-Paus. 1.24.4, Paus. 1.26.5, Paus. 1.31.4, Paus. 1.32.2, Paus. 1.34.3, Paus. 1.37.4, Paus. 2.19.8, Paus. 2.21.2, Paus. 2.25.10, Paus. 2.32.7, Paus. 2.34.6, Paus. 3.13.6, Paus. 3.25.1, Paus. 5.5.1, Paus. 5.13.8-11, Paus. 5.14.6, 7, 8, 10, Paus. 5.15.4, 5, Paus. 5.24.1, Paus. 6.24.3, Paus. 7.24.5, Paus. 8.2.3, Paus. 8.26.6, Paus. 8.38.7, Paus. 8.48.6, Paus. 8.53.11, Paus. 9.2.5, 7
- Images and other representations in art-Paus. 1.1.3, Paus. 1.2.5, Paus. 1.3.2, Paus. 1.17.2, Paus. 1.18.6, 7, Paus. 1.24.4, Paus. 1.32.2, Paus. 1.40.4, Paus. 1.43.6, Paus. 2.2.8, Paus. 2.4.5, Paus. 2.9.6, Paus. 2.17.3, Paus. 2.20.1 ff., Paus. 2.22.2, Paus. 2.24.3, Paus. 2.27.2, Paus. 3.11.11, Paus. 3.12.11, Paus. 3.17.6, Paus. 3.18.10, Paus. 3.19.3, Paus. 3.21.4, Paus. 3.26.6, Paus. 4.31.6, Paus. 4.33.2, Paus. 4.34.6, Paus. 5.2.3, Paus. 5.10.2, 6, Paus. 5.11.1-10, Paus. 5.17.1, Paus. 5.20.2, Paus. 5.21.2-4, 6, 8, 15, 17, Paus. 5.22.1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, Paus. 5.23.1, 4, Paus. 5.24.9, 11, Paus. 5.25.1, Paus. 6.7.2, Paus. 6.10.6, Paus. 6.19.7, 12, Paus. 6.23.4, Paus. 7.20.3, Paus. 7.23.9, 10, Paus. 7.24.2, 4, Paus. 7.26.4, Paus. 8.14.7, Paus. 8.31.4, Paus. 8.37.1, Paus. 8.46.2, Paus. 8.47.3, Paus. 9.2.5, 7, Paus. 9.19.3, Paus. 9.25.4, Paus. 9.26.7, Paus. 9.34.1, 5, Paus. 9.39.4, Paus. 9.41.6, Paus. 10.5.2, Paus. 10.9.7, Paus. 10.13.6, Paus. 10.24.4
- Temples and sanctuaries-Paus. 1.1.4, Paus. 1.4.5, Paus. 1.17.5, Paus. 1.18.6-8, 9, Paus. 1.40.4, 6, Paus. 1.44.9, Paus. 2.4.5, Paus. 2.15.2, Paus. 2.20.3, Paus. 2.24.3, Paus. 2.30.3, 4, Paus. 2.31.10, Paus. 2.36.2, Paus. 3.9.2, Paus. 3.10.6, Paus. 3.11.9, Paus. 3.12.9, Paus. 3.13.8, Paus. 3.14.5, Paus. 3.19.7, Paus. 4.33.1, Paus. 5.5.5, Paus. 5.10.2-Paus. 5.11.10, Paus. 5.12.8, Paus. 7.20.3, Paus. 7.23.9, Paus. 7.24.2, Paus. 7.26.4, Paus. 8.9.2, Paus. 8.12.1, Paus. 8.30.2, 8, 10, Paus. 8.31.4, Paus. 9.19.3, Paus. 9.25.4, Paus. 9.34.5, Paus. 9.39.4, Paus. 10.28.6
- connected with some particular place or function (Zeus Lacedaemon, Zeus Catharsius, etc.): Hdt. 1.44, Hdt. 1.171, Hdt. 2.55, Hdt. 2.178, Hdt. 3.142, Hdt. 4.203, Hdt. 5.46, Hdt. 5.66, Hdt. 5.119, Hdt. 6.56, Hdt. 6.68, Hdt. 7.141, Hdt. 7.197, Hdt. 9.7, Hdt. 9.81
- Titles-Ambulian: Paus. 3.13.6
- Anchesmian: Paus. 1.32.2, Apesantian: Paus. 2.15.3
- Aqueous: Paus. 1.13.3
- Averter of Flies: Paus. 5.14.1
- Averter of ills: Paus. 1.32.2
- Bountiful: Paus. 8.9.2
- Capitolian: Paus. 2.4.5
- Cappotas: Paus. 3.22.1
- Charmon: Paus. 8.12.1
- Cithaeronian: Paus. 9.2.4
- Clarian: Paus. 8.53.9
- Contriver: Paus. 2.22.2
- Counsellor: Paus. 1.3.5
- of the Courtyard: Paus. 4.17.4, Paus. 5.14.7, Paus. 8.46.2, cf.
Paus. 2.24.3
- Croceatian: Paus. 3.21.4
- Descender: Paus. 5.14.10
- Dusty: Paus. 1.40.6
- of the Fair Wind: Paus. 3.13.8
- of Freedom: Paus. 1.3.2, Paus. 9.2.5, 7, Paus. 10.21.5, 6
- Friendly: Paus. 8.31.4
- Full-grown: Paus. 8.48.6
- God of Acquisition: Paus. 1.31.4
- God of Flight: Paus. 2.21.2, Paus. 3.17.9
- God of Oaths: Paus. 5.24.9
- Gracious: Paus. 1.37.4, Paus. 2.9.6, Paus. 2.20.1, 2
- Guide of Fate: Paus. 5.15.5, Paus. 8.37.1, Paus. 10.24.4
- Heliconian: Paus. 7.24.5
- Highest: Paus. 2.2.8, Paus. 5.15.5, Paus. 9.8.5
- Homagyrian: Paus. 7.24.2
- Hospitable: Paus. 3.11.11
- Hurler: Paus. 1.44.9
- Hymettian: Paus. 1.32.2
- Hypsistus: Paus. 9.8.5
- Ithomatian or of Ithome: Paus. 3.26.7, Paus. 4.3.9, Paus. 4.12.7, Paus. 4.13.1, Paus. 4.20.4, Paus. 4.24.7, Paus. 4.27.6, Paus. 4.33.1
- King: Paus. 9.39.4, 5
- Laoetas: Paus. 5.24.1
- Laphystian: Paus. 1.24.2, Paus. 9.34.5
- Larisian: Paus. 2.24.3
- Lecheates: Paus. 8.26.6
- Leucaeus: Paus. 5.5.5
- Lycaean: Paus. 4.22.7, Paus. 6.8.2, Paus. 8.2.1, 3, Paus. 8.30.2, 8, Paus. 8.38.4, 6, 7, Paus. 8.53.11
- Market: Paus. 3.11.9, Paus. 5.15.4, Paus. 9.25.4
- Messapian: Paus. 3.20.3
- Nemean: Paus. 2.15.2, Paus. 2.20.3, Paus. 2.24.2, Paus. 4.27.6
- Olympian: Paus. 1.18.6, 8, Paus. 2.5.5, Paus. 2.27.2, Paus. 3.9.2, Paus. 3.12.11, Paus. 3.14.5, Paus. 4.31.6, Paus. 5.13.8, Paus. 5.14.4, 8, Paus. 7.20.3, Paus. 10.28.6, cf.
Paus. 5.10.1-Paus. 5.11.11
- Orderer: Paus. 3.17.4
- Panhellenian: Paus. 1.18.9, Paus. 1.44.9, Paus. 2.29.8, Paus. 2.30.3
- Parnethian: Paus. 1.32.2
- Paternal: Paus. 2.24.3
- Polieus: Paus. 1.24.4, Paus. 1.28.10
- Purifying: Paus. 5.14.8
- Rainy: Paus. 2.19.8, Paus. 9.39.4
- Saviour: Paus. 2.20.6, Paus. 2.31.10, Paus. 3.23.10, Paus. 4.31.6, Paus. 4.34.6, Paus. 5.5.1, Paus. 7.23.9, Paus. 8.9.2, Paus. 8.30.10, Paus. 9.26.7
- Saviour, Herakles sacrifices to: Apollod. 2.5.1, Apollod. 2.4.12
- Scotitas: Paus. 3.10.6
- Showery: Paus. 1.32.2
- Sign-giving: Paus. 1.32.2
- Strong: Paus. 2.32.7, Paus. 2.34.6
- Subterranean: Paus. 2.2.8, Paus. 2.24.4, Paus. 5.14.8
- Supreme: Paus. 1.26.5, Paus. 3.17.6, Paus. 8.2.3, Paus. 8.14.7, Paus. 9.19.3
- Thunderbolt: Paus. 5.14.7
- Tropaean: Paus. 3.12.9
- Underground: Paus. 2.24.4 (see Subterranean)
- Warlike: Paus. 5.14.6
- Wealthy: Paus. 3.19.7
- identified with foreign deities: Hdt. 1.46, Hdt. 1.131, Hdt. 1.181-183, Hdt. 2.18, Hdt. 2.32, Hdt. 2.29, Hdt. 2.42, Hdt. 2.54, Hdt. 2.55, Hdt. 2.56, Hdt. 2.74, Hdt. 2.83, Hdt. 2.143, Hdt. 3.158, Hdt. 4.5, Hdt. 4.59, Hdt. 4.127, Hdt. 4.180, Hdt. 4.181, Hdt. 7.40