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Zeus Kerauneios original, in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, the following link leads you directly to the National Museum:
www.namuseum.gr/en/collection/klasiki-periodos-3/
Zeus, highest Greek god, father of gods and humans, also called after his father Kronos the Kronide.
Born of Rhea, sister and wife of Kronos, he shared the world with his brothers Poseidon and Hades, whereby heaven became his domain.
Through his first wife Metis he became father of Athena, also Dione was called wife of Zeus. In general, however, Hera, Zeus' sister, was considered his wife. Both children were Ares, Hebe, Hephaistos and Eileithyia.
With many goddesses and mortals, the lumbar-strong superior God begat children: with Dione Aphrodite, with Themis die Horen, with Mnemosyne die Musen, with Leto Apollon and Artemis, with Demeter Persephone, with Eurynome die Chariten, with Maia Hermes, with Semele Dionysos, with Aigina Aiakos, with Europe Minos, Rhadamanthys and Sarpedon, with Antiope Amphion and Zethos, with Io Epaphos, with Kallisto Arkas, and not to forget with Alkmene the radiant Greek superhero Heracles.
Lycaon (to Greek lykos, "wolf"), mythical king of the Arcadians, presented Zeus with human flesh and was transformed into a wolf by him as punishment for iniquity. The myth is connected with human sacrifices for Zeus Lykaios on the Arcadian Lykaion (Wolfsberg).
The gold ivory statue of Zeus, created by the artist Pheidias in Olympia, was one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
Flash throwing Zeus, copper statuette, site of the sanctuary in Dodona in the landscape of Epirus, 470-460 BC, National Archaeological Museum Athens, inventory no. X 16546, reproduction original size of ceramine (high-strength special gypsum), in bronze finish.
This product was added to our catalog on Monday, January 27, 2014.