Zeus, the supreme deity in Greek mythology. Zeus was the son to the Titans Cronus and Rhea. Reared in a secret cave on Mount Ida and suckled by a she-goat, when he reached maturity he overthrew his father and established the rule of the Olympian Gods. Originally, apparently, he was a rain god, god of the sky, of thunder and the thunderbolt. Zeus is represented as a stern but benign figure, as a bearded man in full physical maturity. As the Father of All, the Greeks had to make Zeus polygamous or premiscuous and chose the latter as being less offensive to their mores. By his sister/wife Hera he sired, Ares, Hephaestus, Hebe and Eileithyia. Athena was a headache, or so he thought and by various Goddesses and mortal women he was father to Appollo, Artemis, the Horae, and the Moerae, Hermes, Aphrodite, Dionysus, Persephone, Hercules, Perseus, Helen and many, many more.