Monday, August 16, 2010

Zeus' womanizing in Greek Mythology ; who did he seduce? Was he triumphed with?

ZEUS-THE OLYMPIAN (god) is thought have so many women? What transformations and/or disguises did Zeus invented that may have helped him to seduce women? Was he triumphed?



Zeus' womanizing in Greek Mythology ; who did he seduce? Was he triumphed with?hijack this



Oh, plenty.



First, he had a lot of wives: Metis, Themis, Mnemosyne, then Hera.



Io (Hera was so jealous, that she changed her into a white heifer), and their son was Epaphus.



Leda (Zeus pretended to be a sqan to seduce her), with their children Helen, sons Polydeuces and Castor.



Alcmene, who he visited in the form of her husband, and their child was the hero Heracles.



Antiope, he came to her in the guise of a Satyr. Antiope conceived twins by Zeus. Antiope was the goddess of the new moon, morning and evening star.



With Themis he had Astrea, the goddess of justice.



With Metis - Athena (Athene) was the Greek goddess of intellect.



With Carme - Britomartis, a daughter. Like Artemis, she was a virgin huntress.



Callisto, a nymph. Zeus took the form of Artemis in order to seduce her. She bore son Arcas to Zeus. She gave a vow to remain single. to Artemis, but did not keep it, and she was no longer chaste. She was turned into a bear, either by Zeus who didn't want his wife to know of the love affair, or by his wife, Hera, as revenge for the affair. She was then killed in a hunt by her best friend Artemis who thought she was a bear. Zeus changed the dead Callisto into a constellation, the Ursa Major (Great Bear). Her son, Arcas, born of the affair with Zeus, was changed into the constellation Ursa Minor (Little Bear).

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