Zeusnoun
/zjuːs//zuːs/in Greek mythology (= ancient stories), the greatest of the gods, the god of the sky and the weather, who ruled over human beings and the other gods:
Before Zeus hurled his first thunderbolt from Olympus, the pre-Greek people occupying the land presumably offered sacrifices to their own gods and goddesses.
See also
Jupiter
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- The founding legend of the Olympic Games was depicted on the east pediment of the temple of Zeus at Olympia.
- To the north rises a conical hill, bristling with pine forest, where, according to legend, Zeus wrestled his father, the Titan Kronos, for control of the world.
- In Greek mythology Zeus impregnated Danae in the form of golden rain.
- Prometheus knows Zeus will be overthrown by one of his own sons, and Zeus is desperate to know which one.
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