He was respected as an allfather who was chief of the gods and assigned the others to their roles: 'Even the gods who are not his natural children address him as Father, and all the gods rise in his presence.' He was equated with many foreign weather gods, permitting Pausanias to observe 'That Zeus is king in heaven is a saying common to all men'. These resulted in many godly and heroic offspring, including Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Hermes, Persephone, Dionysus, Perseus, Heracles, Helen of Troy, Minos, and the Muses. Zeus was also infamous for his erotic escapades. At the oracle of Dodona, his consort was said to be Dione, by whom the Iliad states that he fathered Aphrodite. In most traditions, he is married to Hera, by whom he is usually said to have fathered Ares, Hebe, and Hephaestus. Zeus is the child of Cronus and Rhea, the youngest of his siblings to be born, though sometimes reckoned the eldest as the others required disgorging from Cronus's stomach. His mythologies and powers are similar, though not identical, to those of Indo-European deities such as Jupiter, PerkЕ«nas, Perun, Indra and ГћГіrr. His name is cognate with the first element of his Roman equivalent Jupiter. In Greek mythology, Zeus is the god of sky, thunder, winds, clouds and many more, whom from his throne on Mount Olympus, ruled over god and man alike, maintaining order and justice in the universe as the king of the gods.

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