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She was also the twin of Apollo. Artemis was the Goddess of the hunt. This is a statue of Apollo. Apollo was Zeus's son and the God of light.

This is a statue of Hermes. Hermes was also Zeus's son. He was the messenger of the Gods. This is a statue of Aphrodite's head. She was one of Zeus's daughters. Aphrodite was the Goddess of love. This is a statue of Ares's head. Ares was one of Zeus's sons. He was also the God of war. She is also known as being one of the three elder Titan Mousai who were the muses of music before the nine that she and Zeus had.

According to Hesiod, the Mnemosyne and the Muses were the source of inspiration for kings and poets, getting from them their extraordinary abilities in speech. She bore three children to Zeus, the Charites, the goddesses of grace, Aglaea, Euphrosyne, and Thalia.

Eurynome may also have been a goddess of pasturelands. When Hera threw Hephaistus off Mount Olympus for being crippled, Eurynome and Thetis caught him and raise him as their own child. Known as one of the Twelve Olympians, Demeter was the sister and wife of Zeus. She was the goddess of agriculture and grain, a personification of Mother Earth. She also presided over the sacred law and the cycle of death and rebirth. He came to Alcmene in the form of her husband, Amphitryon [see Heracles], fathering Heracles.

Io later traveled to Egypt and bore Epaphus, who became an Egyptian god. Zeus abducted Europa in the form of a bull and took her to Crete, where she bore him three sons, Minos, Rhadamanthys, and Sarpedon. He came to Leda as a swan and she later laid two eggs with two sets of twins. Zeus was also attracted to young boys. Ganymede, a young and beautiful Trojan prince, was abducted by Zeus and taken up to Olympus to be his personal cupbearer and probably his lover as well.

Because Zeus was the ruler of the gods, the gods often took their quarrels to Zeus for arbitration. He also meted out punishments to immortals and mortals alike who angered him.

The Lydian King, Tantalus, was a son of Zeus who was favored by the gods, but he wanted to test their knowledge and power.

He invited the gods to a dinner party and served them a dish made from his own son, Pelops. They put Pelops together again giving him an ivory shoulder to replace the one that had been eaten and Tantalus was punished in the Underworld by having to stand up to his chin in a lake that would recede any time he moved to take a drink and overhead was a tree with delicious, ripe fruit that would move away from him when he tried to reach up and grab one.