Zeus

Zeus is the Ancient Greek god of the skies and thunder, and the king of the gods.http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/Greekhistory&gods.htm His father Kronos swallowed all of his siblings, fearing that they would overthrow him, but his wife Rhea fooled Kronos into swallowing a stone in place of Zeus.http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/Greekhistory&gods.htm According to the legend, Zeus returns to defeat his father and banish him to the depths of Tartarus, the deepest level of the underworld. He and his brothers Poseidon and Hades drew lots for which kingdom each will rule over, the ocean, the sky, or the underworld. Zeus won the sky as his kingdom.http://www.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/greek.gods.html

Zeus is known as a powerful god, wielding his destructive lightning bolts to his advantage.http://www.math.utk.edu/~vasili/va/GREECE/Greek_myth/olympian.html#O He is also known for his many relations with women, despite being married to the goddess Hera. He fathered many children, including the gods Hermes, Apollo and Ares, and the goddesses Athena and Artemis.http://www.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/greek.gods.html

Besides overthrowing his father Kronos and the other Titans, Zeus' love life plays a major role in his mythological tales. His first wife was Metis, a Titan. She was pregnant with his child and to ensure that she didn't bear a son that could challenge his power, he swallowed Metis. Despite his efforts, the child, the goddess Athena, was born and sprang from his head.http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/Greekhistory&gods.htm

Another myth involves Zeus affair with Io. In order to avoid Hera discovering that he had been with Io, he turned her into a white cow. Hera, knowing that who the cow really was, took it from Zeus and had Argus, her watchman with a hundred eyes, guard it. Io's lowing was too much for Zeus to bear so he sent Hermes to liberate her. Hermes dressed as a shepherd and used his musical and storytelling skill to lull Argus to sleep, then killed him. Io was freed, and Hera memorialized Argus by taking his eyes and putting them on the peacock.http://www.math.utk.edu/~vasili/va/GREECE/Greek_myth/zeusLover.html