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The Liaisons of ZEUS |
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GIRLFRIENDS AND OFFSPRING:
- METIS
ATHENA (with the aid of Prometheus or Hephaestus)
- THEMIS
-Seasons (Eunomia, Dike, Eirene)
-Fates (Moirai: Clotho, Lacheses, Atropos)
- Eurynome
-Graces (Charis, Aglaia, Pasitheia) - DEMETER
-PERSEPHONE [Perse, Proserpina]
- MNEMOSYNE
-MUSES (nine: Hesiod, Theogony )
- LETO
-APOLLO and ARTEMIS [Diana] twins
- HERA
-ARES [Mars], Eileithyeia, Hebe, [Eris?]
- Maia
-HERMES - Semele
-DIONYSOS - Io
-Epaphus (Apis bull of Egypt) - Antiope
-Zethus, Amphion (Theban rulers, Oedipus' great-uncles) - Leda
-Helen, Pollux (half-siblings of Castor and Clytamnestra)
- Niobe (daughter of Phoroneus)
-Argus (Hera's watchman) [Apollodorus II.1.1] - Europa
-MINOS (father of Ariadne and Phaedra), Rhadamanthys, Sarpedon
- Danaë
-PERSEUS (Herakles' great-grandfather) - Electra (Pleiad)
-Dardanus (ancestor of Priam and Aeneas), Iasion - Taygete
-Lacedaemon - Eurynome
-Aesopus River (father of Aegina, the island) - Aegina
-Aeacus (father of Peleus, grandfather of ACHILLES) - Callisto
-Arcas - ALCMENE
-HERAKLES - Plouto (daughter of Kronos)
-TANTALUS (father of PELOPS, grandfather of PITTHEUS, ATREUS, and
THYESTES, great-great-grandfather of THESEUS)
Liaisons of ZEUS and YOUNG MEN
- GANYMEDE: Trojan prince, Cupbearer of Zeus (Iliad XX. 231; Ibycus, Fragment 289)
- PHAENON: (Hyginus Poetica Astronomica 2. 42) a creation of Prometheus, reported to Zeus by Eros, carried to Zeus by Hermes, became the Planet Jupiter or Saturn
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