Zeus (Jupiter) and His Lovers

Special Topic: Zeus (Jupiter) and his lovers



OFFICIAL WIFE:


Hera (Juno), mother of Vulcan, Mars, Ilithyia, and Hebe


-Father: Cronus; Mother: Rhea;


-Foster father Oceanus, foster mother: Tethys


-Argus and the peacock






LOVERS:


1. Leda, Queen of King Sparta Eurythemis, mother of the Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux = the Gemini) , Helen and Clytemnestra


2. Europa, Princess of Phoenicia, sister to Cadmus (founder of Thebes), mother to Minos and Rhadamanthus (Judges of the Underworld)


-The Island of Crete


3. Danae, Princess of Argos, mother to the great hero Perseus


4. Callisto, nymph in Arcadia, companion to Diana, mother to Arcas


-Ursa Major and Ursa Minor


5. Io, Princess of Argo, Priestess at Hera’s Temple


-Zeus disguised as fog


-watched by Argus


-The Wanderer


-became Goddess Isis in Egypt


-famous offspring Hercules


6. Antiope, mother to the twin Amphion and Zethus


-Zeus disguised as satyr


-The twin restored the City of Thebes


7. Semele, daughter to Cadmus and Harmonia (daughter to Venus and Mars), mother to Bacchus (Dionysus)


-burned to death


-baby was sewn to Zeus thigh, the twice born


8. Alcmena, mother of Heracles?


-The Milky Way


9. Ganymede, a Trojan boy, replacing Hebe to become the bearer of the wine for the Olympian Gods and Goddess, becoming the Aquarian


10. Leto, a nymph at the Olympian, transformed into a deer by Hera, rescued by a dolphin sent by Poseidon )Neptune) to the Island of Delo, bearing Apollo and Diana