id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-339 Zeus - Wikipedia .html text/html 11021 2238 74 Children Aeacus, Agdistis, Angelos, Aphrodite, Apollo, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Dionysus, Eileithyia, Enyo, Epaphus Eris, Ersa, Hebe, Helen of Troy, Hephaestus, Heracles, Hermes, Lacedaemon, Melinoƫ, Minos, Pandia, Persephone, Perseus, Rhadamanthus, Zagreus, the Graces, the Horae, the Litae, the Muses, the Moirai Zeus[a] is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion, who rules as king of the gods of Mount Olympus. In most traditions, he is married to Hera, by whom he is usually said to have fathered Ares, Hebe, and Hephaestus.[13] At the oracle of Dodona, his consort was said to be Dione, by whom the Iliad states that he fathered Aphrodite.[16] Zeus was also infamous for his erotic escapades. Book 8: Zeus prohibits the other Gods from fighting each other and has to return to Mount Ida where he can think over his decision that the Greeks will lose the war ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-339.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-339.txt