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Zeus was the king of all gods. He fathered 38 children and was the so called the father of all olympians. Zeus was known as the sender of thunder, lightning, rain, and winds. He was known to have a thunderbolt. He was called the father (the ruler and protector) of both Gods and men. According to a Greek myth, Cronus, king of the Titans, upon learning that one of his children was fated to dethrone him, swallowed his children as soon as they were born. But Rhea, his wife, saved the infant Zeus by making a rock (wrapped in clothes)be Zeus. Cronus swallow the rock and Rhea hid Zeus in a cave on Crete. There he was nursed by the nymph (or female goat) Amalthaea and guarded by the Curetes (young warriors), who clashed their weapons to disguise the baby's cries. After Zeus grew up he led a revolt against the Titans and dethroned Cronus, perhaps with the help of his brothers Hades and Poseidon. He later divided the world with them. As ruler of heaven Zeus led the Gods to victory against the Giants (offspring of Gaea and Tartarus) and successfully crushed several revolts against him by his fellow gods. According to the Greek poet Homer, heaven was located on the top of Mount Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece, and the logical home for a weather God. The other members of the Parthenon resided there with Zeus and were subject to his will. From his exalted position atop Mount Olympus Zeus was thought to see the affairs of men, seeing everything, governing all, and rewarding good conduct and punishing evil. Zeus was the protector of cities, the home, property, strangers, guests, and supplicants. Zeus was well known for his passionate side. He had many love affairs with both mortal and immortal women. In order to achieve his amorous designs, Zeus frequently assumed animal forms, such as that of a cuckoo when he ravished Hera, a swan when he ravished Leda or a bull when he carried off Europa. Some of his children were the twins Apollo and Artemis, with the Titaness Leto. Also Helen and the Dioscuri, with Leda of Sparta, Persephone, with the goddess Demeter, Athena, born from his head after he had swallowed the Titaness Metis, Hephaestus, Hebe, Ares, and Eileithyia, by his wife, Hera, Dionysus, by the goddess Semele; and many others. Zeus had at least 38 children (5 were with his wives Hera and Ira) Though regarded by Greek religionists everywhere as almighty and the head of the Parthenon, Zeus's very universality tended to reduce his importance compared to that of powerful local divinities like Athena and Hera. Although statues of Zeus (Guardian of the House) and altars of Zeus (Hospitable) graced the forecourts of houses, and though his mountaintop shrines were visited by pilgrims, Zeus did not have a temple at Athens until the late 6th century BC. Even his temple at Olympia postdated that of Hera. In art Zeus was represented as a bearded, dignified, and a mature man, his most prominent symbols were the thunderbolt and the eagle.
