In some versions of Greek mythology, Zeus ate his wife Metisbecause it was known that their second child would be more powerful than him. After Metis's demise, their first child Athena was born when Hephaestus cleaved Zeus's head open and the goddess of war emerged, fully grown and armed....
In Greek mythology,Adoniswas the god of beauty and desire. Originally, he was a god worshipped in the area of Phoenicia (modern – day Lebanon), but was later adopted by the Greeks. Who did Zeus really love? Zeus fell in love withIoand seduced her under a thick blanket of cloud to ...