Who was the father of Zeus?

Question

Greek God ? The answer eludes me an driving me daft!

Answer 1

Zeus (in Greek: nominative: Ζεύς Zeús, genitive: Διός Diós) in Greek mythology is the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus, and god of the sky and thunder. His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull and the oak. In addition to his Indo-European inheritance, the classical Zeus also derives certain iconographic traits from the cultures of the ancient Near East, such as the scepter. Zeus is frequently envisaged by Greek artists in one of two poses: standing, striding forward, a thunderbolt leveled in his raised right hand, or seated in majesty.

The son of Cronus and Rhea, he was the youngest of his siblings. He was married to Hera in most traditions, although at the oracle of Dodona his consort was Dione: according to the Iliad, he is the father of Aphrodite by Dione. Accordingly, he is known for his erotic escapades, including one pederastic relationship with Ganymede. His trysts resulted in many famous offspring, including Athena, Apollo and Artemis, Hermes, Persephone (by Demeter), Dionysus, Perseus, Heracles, Helen, Minos, and the Muses (by Mnemosyne); by Hera he is usually said to have sired Ares, Hebe and Hephaestus.

His Roman counterpart was Jupiter, and his Etruscan counterpart was Tinia.
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Answer 2

Zeus, the youngest son of Cronus and Rhea, he was the supreme ruler of Mount Olympus and of the Pantheon of gods who resided there. Being the supreme ruler he upheld law, justice and morals, and this made him the spiritual leader of both gods and men. Zeus was a celestial god, and originally worshiped as a weather god by the Greek tribes. These people came southward from the Balkans circa 2100 BCE. He has always been associated as being a weather god, as his main attribute is the thunderbolt, he controlled thunder, lightning and rain. Theocritus wrote circa 265 BCE: "sometimes Zeus is clear, sometimes he rains". He is also known to have caused thunderstorms. In Homer's epic poem the Iliad he sent thunderstorms against his enemies. The name Zeus is related to the Greek word dios, meaning "bright". His other attributes as well as lightning were the scepter, the eagle and his aegis (this was the goat-skin of Amaltheia).

Answer 3

Zeus was a philandering rapist and neglectful towards his children at best, downright abusive at worst. He frankly didn't care, all Greek gods without exception acted like a bunch of spoiled mortals with fancy powers. Usually when he acted out of compassion towards his numerous offspring is because it made HIM look bad when his children were disrespected because it was an insult to the house of Zeus. There are tones of stories and fables I could tell you, and believe you me I have quite a few....but lets not waste time here... Some of his actions are actually reminiscent of Venus in Virgil’s aeneid, who went out of her way to help her son but generally ended up making his life worse, perhaps Zeus was powerless to do anything, the Greek gods after all were essentially metaphorical vessels used as a device to explain that you can't cheat destiny, the physical God concept came later... @Hercule...- Asclepius was killed because he was reviving the dead and thus stealing from Hades who complained to Zeus to stop him.

Answer 4

Cronus

Answer 5

Cronus

Answer 6

Zeus was the youngest son of Kronos and Rhea. He was also brother to Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Demeter and Hera.
You really must not forget important things like this, it makes the gods angry.

Answer 7

Kronos or Cronus. And Zeus gave him one helluva Fathers Day present!

Answer 8

Cronus and Rhea

Answer 9

Cronus

And just to tweak your memory.

First of all, the Void came into being, next broad-bosomed Earth, the solid and eternal home of a11, and Eros [Desire], the most beautiful of the immortal gods, who in every man and every god softens the sinews and overpowers the prudent purpose of the mind. Out of Void came Darkness and black Night, and out of Night came Light and Day, her children conceived after union in love with Darkness. Earth first pro­duced starry Sky, equal in size with herself, to cover her on all sides. Next she produced the tall mountains, the pleasant haunts of the gods, and also gave birth to the barren waters, sea with its raging surges-all this without the passion of love. Thereafter she lay with Sky and gave birth to Ocean with its deep current, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus; Thea and Rhea and Themis [Law] and Mnemosyne [Memory; also golden-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys. After these came cunning Cronus, the youngest and boldest of her chil­dren; and he grew to hate the father who had begotten him.

Answer 10

the titan Cronus