Zeus while the youngest of the siblings from Cronus and Rhea he was known to be the king of the gods in ancient greece he ruled on mount olympus he was known to have many offspring with many being either heroic of godly in nature including Athena, Apollo, Artemis,Helen of Troy, Hermes, Perseus Persephone, Dionysus, Heracles,Athena Minos, His symbols are the thunderbolt, bull,eagle and oak. Cronus had several other children but swallowed them because of something said to him gaia that one of his children would overthrow him but it was not said who so when Zeus came he was hid in a cave so he would be saved Zeus played a dominant role, presiding over the Olympian pantheon. He fathered many of the heroes and was featured in many of their local …show more content…
Zeus is mentioned in the Bible twice the first time is in Acts 14:8-13: When the people living in Lystra, saw Paul heal a lame man, they considered Paul the Apostle and his partner who was with him Barnabas to be gods, identifying Paul with Hermes and Barnabas with Zeus, even trying to offer sacrifice with the crowd to them. Two ancient writings discovered in the early twentieth century from familiar to Lystra speak to the worship of these two gods in that location. One of the inscriptions refers to the "priests of Zeus," and the other is describing "Hermes Most Great"” as well as "Zeus the sun-god." After reaching adulthood, Zeus made Cronus disgorge first the stone then his siblings in oppisite order of swallowing. although it differs in some versions of the story Metis gave Cronus an emetic to force him to give the babies up, or Zeus removed them from him himself . Then Zeus released the brothers of Cronus, the Gigantes, the Cyclopes and the Hecatonchiresfrom their seclusion in Tartarus, killing their guard, Campe. As a reward of their graditude, the Cyclopes gave him thunder and the thunderbolt, or lightning, which had previously been hidden by Gaia while trying to protect