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{{quote pp-semi-protected| textsmall=yes}}{{otheruses}} {{Bible verseInfobox Greek deity|Genesis|1Image = Statue of Zeus.jpg|1Caption = The [[Statue of Zeus at Olympia|langStatue of Zeus]] at [[Olympia, Greece|Olympia]]<br/>[[Phidias]] created the 12 m (40 ft) tall [[statue]] of '''''Zeus''''' at Olympia about [[435 BC]]. The statue was perhaps the most famous [[sculpture]] in [[Ancient Greece]], imagined here in a [[16th century]] [[engraving]]| Name = Zeus | God_of =WEB}} '''King of the gods''' <br/>'''God of the Sky and Thunder'''| Abode = [[Genesis 1:1Mount Olympus]]}}{{Infobox_Contents | Symbol = [[Thunderbolt]], [[Eagle]], [[Bull]] and [[Oak]] | Consort = [[Hera]] topic_name | Parents = God [[Cronus]] and [[Rhea (mythology)|Rhea]] subtopics | Siblings = [[Character of GodPoseidon]] - , [[God is the creatorHades]], [[God is loveDemeter]], [[God is holyHestia]], [[God is forgivingHera]]* | Children = [[TrinityAres]] - , [[Athena]], [[God the FatherApollo]], [[Jesus ChristArtemis]], [[Holy SpiritAphrodite]]* , [[Names of GodDionysus]] , [[Hebe (mythology)|Hebe]], [[Hermes]], [[Heracles]], [[Helen]], [[Hephaestus]], [[Perseus]], [[Minos]], the [[Muse]]s| Mount opinion_pieces = {{short_opinions}}* {{ebd}}* Sermon: | Roman_equivalent = [[Luke 15 - What is God like? (G.G.)Jupiter]]
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===Zeus and foreign gods===Zeus was equivalent to the [[Roman mythology|Roman]] god [[Jupiter (god)|Jupiter]] and associated in the syncretic classical imagination (see ''[[interpretatio graeca]]'') with various other deities, such as the [[Egyptian mythology|Egyptian]] [[Amun|Ammon]] and the [[Etruscan mythology|Etruscan]] [[TrinityTinia]]===. He (along with [[Dionysus]]) absorbed the role of the chief [[Phrygia]]n god [[Sabazios]] in the [[Syncretism|syncretic]] deity known in Rome as [[Sabazius]].
==Quotes=Infancy===Rhea hid Zeus in a cave on [[Mount Ida]] in Crete. According to varying versions of the story:# He was then raised by [[Gaia (mythology)|Gaia]].# He was raised by a [[goat]] named [[Amalthea (mythology)|Amalthea]], while a company of [[Kouretes]]— soldiers, or smaller gods— danced, shouted and clashed their spears against their shields so that Cronus would not hear the baby's cry. (See [[cornucopia]].)# He was raised by a [[nymph]] named [[Adamanthea]]. Since Cronus ruled over the [[Earth]], the [[heaven]]s and the [[sea]], she hid him by dangling him on a [[rope]] from a [[tree]] so he was suspended between earth, sea and sky and thus, invisible to his father.# He was raised by a [[nymph]] named [[Cynosura]]. In gratitude, Zeus [[Catasterismi|placed her among the stars]].# He was raised by [[Melissa]], who nursed him with [[goat]]'s-milk and honey.# He was raised by a shepherd family under the promise that their sheep would be saved from wolves.
Among the mortals: [[C.S. LewisSemele]]: God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience[[Io (mythology)|Io]], but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world[[Europa (mythology)|Europa]] and [[Leda (mythology)|Leda]].: God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.: If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying(For more details, see below).
== In Philosophy ==In [[Neoplatonism]], Zeus' relation to the Gods familiar from mythology is taught as the [[Demiurge]] or Divine [[nous|Mind]]. Specifically within [[Romans 5Plotinus]]:7-8' work the [[Enneads]] <ref>: {{Bible verse|Romans|5|7|lang=WEB}} {{Bible verse|Romans|5|8|lang=WEB}} In Fourth Tractate 'Problems of the Soul' The Demiurge is identified as [[Zeus]].10."When under the name of Zeus we are considering the Demiurge we must leave out all notions of stage and progress, and recognize one unchanging and timeless life."</ref>
=== Spoken-word myths — audio files ==={| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" |-! style="background:#ffdead;" | Zeus Myths as told by story tellers|-|[[Media:Zeus and Tantalus, with Poseidon and Pelops - wiki.ogg|'''1 John . Zeus and Tantalus,''' (including Pelops and Poseidon episode), read by Timothy Carter]]|-|Bibliography of reconstruction: [[Homer]], ''Odyssey,'' 11.567 (7th c. BC); [[Pindar]], ''Olympian Odes,'' 1(476 BC); [[Euripides]], ''[[Orestes (play)|Orestes]],'' 12–16 (408 BC); [[Apollodorus]], ''Epitomes'' 2:51–9 (140 BC); [[Ovid]], ''Metamorphoses,'' VI: 213, 458 (AD 8); [[Hyginus]], ''Fables,'' 82: Tantalus; 83: Pelops (1st c. AD); [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece,'' 2.22.3 (AD 160–76)|-|[[Media:02-Zeus and Ganymede 2qual.ogg|'''2. Zeus and Ganymede,''' read by Timothy Carter]]|-|Bibliography of reconstruction: God is light[[Homer]], ''Iliad'' 5.265ff; 20.215–35 (700 BC); Anonymous, ''Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite'' 202ff. (7th c. BC); [[Sophocles]], ''The Colchian Women'' (after [[Athenaeus]], 602) (b. 495 – d. 406 BC); [[Euripides]], ''Iphigenia in him there is no darkness at allAulis'' (410 BC); [[Apollodorus]], ''Library and Epitome'' iii. 12.2 (140 BC); [[Diodorus Siculus]], ''Histories'' 4.75.3 (1st c. BC); [[Virgil]], ''Aeneid'' 5. 252–60 (19 BC); [[Ovid]], ''Metamorphoses'' 10.155ff. (AD 1–8); [[Hyginus]], ''Poetica Astronomica''|}
==See also==* [[Achaean Federation]]* [[Deception of Zeus]]* [Exodus 3:14[USS Zeus (ARB-4)|USS ''Zeus'' (ARB-4)]] * [[Jupiter (King James Versionmythology)]]: God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.* [[Zeus (Planetarion)]]
==References=={{Refbegin}}*Burkert, Walter, (1977) 1985. ''Greek Religion'', especially section III.ii.1 (Harvard University Press)*[[Isaiah 45Arthur Bernard Cook|Cook, Arthur Bernard]], ''Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religion'', (3 volume set), (1914-1925). New York, Bibilo & Tannen: 1964.**Volume 1:5''Zeus, God of the Bright Sky'', Biblo-Moser, June 1, 1964, ISBN 0-8196-0148-7 9 (King James Versionreprint)**Volume 2: I am ''Zeus, God of the LORDDark Sky (Thunder and Lightning)'', Biblo-Moser, June 1, and there is none else1964, there is no God beside meISBN 0-8196-0156-X**Volume 3: I girded thee''Zeus, though thou hast not known me: That they may know from God of the rising Dark Sky (earthquakes, clouds, wind, dew, rain, meteorites)''* [[Maurice Druon|Druon, Maurice]], ''The Memoirs of Zeus'', 1964, Charles Scribner's and Sons. (tr. Humphrey Hare)* Farnell, Lewis Richard, ''Cults of the sunGreek States'' 5 vols. Oxford; Clarendon 1896-1909. Still the standard reference.* Farnell, Lewis Richard, ''Greek Hero Cults and from Ideas of Immortality, 1921.* [[Robert Graves|Graves, Robert]]; ''[[The Greek Myths]]'', Penguin Books Ltd. (1960 edition)* [[William Mitford|Mitford,William]], ''The History of Greece'', 1784. Cf. v.1, Chapter II, ''Religion of the westEarly Greeks''* Moore, that there is none beside meClifford H. I am , ''The Religious Thought of the LORDGreeks, 1916.* [http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/gpr/ Nilsson, Martin P., ''Greek Popular Religion'', 1940.] * Nilsson, Martin P., ''History of Greek Religion'', 1949.* [[Erwin Rohde|Rohde, Erwin]], ''Psyche: The Cult of Souls and there is none elseBelief in Immortality among the Greeks'', 1925. I form the light* [[William Smith (lexicographer)|Smith, William]], ''[[Dictionary of Greek and create darknessRoman Biography and Mythology]]'', 1870, [http: I make peace//www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/], and create evilWilliam Smith, ''Dictionary'': "Zeus" [http: I the LORD do all these things//www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/3655. html]{{Refend}};Footnotes{{Reflist}}