Who has Zeus slept with?

Top 5 Zeus' Lovers and Their Crazy Stories
  • Danae. Titian, Danaë with Nursemaid or Danaë Receiving the Golden Rain, 1553–1554, Museo del Prado, Madrid. ...
  • Europa. Titian, Rape of Europa, ca. ...
  • Io. Antonio da Correggio, Jupiter and Io, c. ...
  • Semele. Dosso Dossi, Jupiter and Semele, 1520s, private collection. ...
  • Ganymede.
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Who all slept with Zeus?

Before his marriage to Hera, Zeus consorted with a number of the female Titanes (and his sister Demeter). These liaisons are ordered by Hesiod as follows: (1) Metis; (2) Themis; (3) Eurynome; (4) Demeter; (5) Mnemosyne; (6) Leto.
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How many times did Zeus cheat on his wife?

Since the PJO series, many hate Hera. Zeus has cheated on Hera over a hundred times. However, she keeps forgiving him in the end.
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Who was impregnated by Zeus?

This page describes three of Zeus' mortal liaisons--Danae who was impregnated by the god in the form of a golden shower, Antiope who was seduced by the god in the guise of a satyr, and Kallisto who was deceived by Zeus disguised as the maiden Artemis.
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Did Zeus and Aphrodite sleep together?

Aphrodite later and of her own volition had an affair with Zeus, but his jealous wife Hera laid her hands upon the belly of the goddess and cursed their offspring with malformity. Their child was the ugly god Priapos.
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Who did Zeus cheat on Hera with?

Zeus took another lover, the mortal Semele, after he saw her sacrifice a bull in his honor. Zeus visited Semele often and she became pregnant. Hera discovered Zeus's infidelity, worked to befriend Semele, and tricked her into asking Zeus to show himself in all his glory, knowing that mortals cannot look upon the gods.
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Who was Zeus favorite lover?

Zeus and Metis

His first and favorite lover was Metis, a Titan goddess and mother of Athena.
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Who did Zeus seduce?

According to many versions of the story, Zeus took the form of a swan and raped Leda on the same night she slept with her husband King Tyndareus.
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Who was the ugliest god?

Hephaestus. Hephaestus is the son of Zeus and Hera. Sometimes it is said that Hera alone produced him and that he has no father. He is the only god to be physically ugly.
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How many wives has Zeus?

Seven wives of Zeus

According to Hesiod, Zeus had seven wives. His first wife was the Oceanid Metis, whom he swallowed on the advice of Gaia and Uranus, so that no son of his by Metis would overthrow him, as had been foretold. Later, their daughter Athena would be born from the forehead of Zeus.
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Who did Hera sleep with?

In one account Hera refused to marry Zeus and hid in a cave to avoid him; an earthborn man named Achilles convinced her to give him a chance, and thus the two had their first sexual intercourse.
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Why did Zeus marry his sister?

Fooled, Hera took the bird to her bosom to comfort it. Thus situated, Zeus resumed his male form and raped her. Why is Zeus married to his sister? To hide her shame, Hera agreed to marry him.
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Did Hera seduce Kronos?

Hera is Kronos's daughter-in-law and once, his fake lover. During the war, Zeus and Hera came up with a plan to be able to defeat Kronos. This plan involved Hera seducing Kronos, gaining his trust, and slowly poisoning him over time.
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Which Greek god had the most Affairs?

Zeus, the king of the Olympian Gods, was not only known for being the most prominent deity in the ancient Greek pantheon. He also had a reputation for his endless affairs, which leaves us amazing tales of conflict and chaos.
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Who was Zeus lover?

Zeus fell in love with Io and seduced her. To try to keep Hera from noticing he covered the world with a thick blanket of clouds. This backfired, arousing Hera's suspicions. She came down from Mount Olympus and begain dispersing the clouds.
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Who did Aphrodite slept with?

Even though married to Hephaestus, she had affairs with all Olympians except Zeus and Hades, most famously with Ares, the god of war. She also had famous romances with two mortals, Anchises and Adonis.
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Who is the prettiest god?

Aphrodite was the most beautiful of all the Goddesses and there are many tales of how she could encourage both Gods and humans to fall in love with her.
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Why is Athena a virgin?

Althought Athena is a virgin goddess, she mothered the god Erichthonios by Hephaestus. According to myth, she went to Hephaestus wanting some weapons forged. When Hephaestus tried to rape her, she protected her virginity and he ejaculated on her leg. She wiped it off with a piece of wool, throwing it onto the ground.
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How did Zeus seduce Europa?

There, Zeus cast off the shape of the white bull, and back into his human form, made Europa his lover beneath a simple cypress tree. Europa became the first queen of Crete and had by Zeus three sons. At last, Zeus reproduced the shape of the white bull, used by Zeus to seduce Europa, in the stars.
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Did Hades ever cheat on Persephone?

Hades did not make any of his extramarital affairs a secret. Typically, his affairs would not bother Persephone, but when Minthe arrogantly bragged that she was more beautiful than Persephone and that she would win Hades back, Persephone took revenge. Persephone turned Minthe into what we know today as the mint plant.
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Who was Zeus favorite child?

Athena is also the favorite child of Zeus, being allowed to carry his Aegis, or armor, into battle.
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Why is Zeus scared of Nyx?

It is commonly thought that Nyx is the only goddess that Zeus is truly afraid of because she is older and more powerful than him. This traces back to one story in which Hera, Zeus' wife and goddess of marriage and childbirth, works together with Hypnos, the god of sleep, to trick Zeus.
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Is Hera a virgin?

Interesting Facts about Hera

Oddly enough, in addition to being a mother, Hera also embodied perpetual virginity, as she renewed her virginity annually by bathing in the spring of Canathus in Nauplia (Peloponnese/Southern Greece). Hera was an Olympian goddess, but her place on Mount Olympus was not always assured.
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Why was Zeus so promiscuous?

Zeus had acquired wives as his worship spread from locality to locality and he had to marry each provincial earth goddess. However, polygamy was foreign to the Greeks and unacceptable, so they had to make him promiscuous.
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How did Zeus trick Hera into marrying him?

So he appeared to her in the guise of a bedraggled, rain-soaked cuckoo. Hera saw the poor bird and kindly brought him into the shelter of her bosom to warm and dry him. Zeus immediately returned to his true form and—true to form, indeed—ravished her. He thus shamed Hera into marrying him.
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