Zeus

Zeus
The Jupiter de Smyrne, discovered in Smyrna in 1680[1]
The Jupiter de Smyrne, discovered in Smyrna in 1680[1]
King of the gods
God of the Sky and Thunder
AbodeMount Olympus
SymbolThunderbolt, Eagle, Bull and Oak
ConsortHera
ParentsCronus and Rhea
SiblingsPoseidon, Hades, Demeter, Hestia, Hera
ChildrenAres, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Dionysus, Hebe, Hermes, Heracles, Helen, Hephaestus, Perseus, Minos, the Muses
MountOlympus
Roman equivalentJupiter



  1. The sculpture was presented to Louis XIV as Aesculapius but restored as Zeus, ca. 1686, by Pierre Granier, who added the upraised right arm brandishing the thunderbolt. Marble, middle 2nd century CE. Formerly in the north allée of the Tapis vert, in the garden of Versailles, now conserved in the Louvre Museum (official on-line catalog)