His first wife was Metis. His second, who was known as his wife on Olympus, was the jealous Hera. But there was also Themis, the goddess of Justice, with whom he produced the Hours, the Fates and the Mnemosyne – meaning “memory” – who gave birth to nine Muses. In order to achieve his aims, Zeus metamorphosed. He was an expert at changing shape and form.

Zeus liked to seduce.

He strengthened himself via seduction

He also controled or exerted power through seduction

“Zeus, as king of the gods, took as his first wife Metis, and she knew more than all the gods or mortal people. But when she was about to be delivered of the goddess, gray-eyed Athene, then Zeus, deceiving her perception by treachery and by slippery speeches, put her away inside his own belly.

Zeus dared metis into game of metamorpheses’=

lioness

wild boar

flame

fly

how about drop of water?

Zeus swallowed water, but metis was goddess of cunning. Zeus suffered severed headachae.

Athena burst out of Zeus’s headache.

Rhea forbade zeus to remarry.

z raped rhea.

rhea turned herself into a serpent

z did the same and tied rhea into a knot,

next zeus abd themis

they had 3 children the hours

3 more children 3 women spinners

the thread of life

the morei

Romans called them the parkei

the morei were the 3 fates

zeus ditched themis, but kept her around as a counsel

He married his sister Hera

wed in secret in samos

At fist, hera spurned z

z changed himself into a bird,

Hera irresistible

goddess of white arms

z wanted to strenthen his connected to nature

3 daughters

z + menyseonme

9 daughters the muses = the arts

lato the goddess of the night was most gorgeous z wanted son from lato

lato became pregnant with twins

hera sent python to antgonize lato

lato had girl artemis and boy apollo

z also wanted mortal women

this is not accoeptable

he wanted daughter of king of thebes

z had to turn himself into a prince. human couldn’t look at god

Hera disguised hersef as old nuse of semele SEMELE A princess of Thebes in Boiotia (central Greece) who was loved by Zeus, but through the machinations of Hera was consumed by the heat of his lightning bolts. Zeus rescued their unborn son, Dionysos, from her body and sewed him up in his thigh until he was old enought to be born.

zeus became bull to appear to princess from asia shepherdess maiden jumped on bull’s back bull carried her all the way to crete, named princess europa

Z fell in love with nymph who was servant of artemis z disguised himself with appearance of artemis

In Greek mythology, Callisto or Kallisto (/kəˈlɪstoʊ/; Ancient Greek: Καλλιστώ [kallistɔ̌ː]) was a nymph, or the daughter of King Lycaon; the myth varies in such details. She was believed to be one of the followers of Artemis (Diana for the Romans) who attracted Zeus. Many versions of Callisto’s story survive. According to some writers, Zeus transformed himself into the figure of Artemis to pursue Callisto, and she slept with him believing Zeus to be Artemis. She became pregnant and when this was eventually discovered, she was expelled from Artemis’s group

Zeus, we discover was very human in his inability to control his desires