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1390 BCE
Zeus born
Zeus, king of the Olympian gods, was the son of the titan Cronos and his sister / wife Rea. Previously they had already had Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades and Poseidon, whom Cronos swallowed as soon as he was born, thus trying to avoid the prophecy that he would be dethroned by one of his children, just as he himself did with his father -
1290 BCE
Zeus wife
Of the large number of offspring that Zeus sired, only one appears in all ancient sources as the son of Hera: Ares, god of war. Most authors also attribute to Zeus and Hera the paternity of the goddess Hebe, while they are divided when it comes to stating whether Hephaestus was also the son of the two or Hera alone. -
1000 BCE
zeus death
Metis took the form of intelligence and gave birth to a daughter, who grew up inside her father's head. Over time, Zeus began to experience a terrible headache, so Hephaestus offered to lift Zeus out of his misery by splitting his head with an awl and hammer. -
1190
zeus Governing the olympus
The cults dedicated to Zeus were very different and varied depending on the area of the Mediterranean in which they were developed. In general, they were cults with a very important political component, either of cohesion of communities and polis, or more complex, as in the case of Olympian Zeus. The latter met every four years in the city of Olympia representatives of all the Greek polis, thus celebrating belonging to a common culture that was above military and political rivalries.