- Zeus is the King of the gods and lord of the sky
- Zeus married his sister Hera.
- He was the only child that was not eaten by Cronus and saved his siblings out of his fathers stomach. But later when he heard the prophecy that his next child was going to be more powerful than him, he ate his wife with the baby inside of her. Years later, he had a pounding headache and a full grown lady popped out! The Lady was his daughter Athena, which he had eaten years before.
- Zeus’s roman name was Jupiter
- Zeus’s bird was an eagle, his tree was oak. His oracle was Dodona, in the land of oak trees. The gods will was said to be revealed by the rustling of oak leaves which the priests interpreted.
- Zeus’s most famous symbol is the Thunderbolt
- Zeus ordered the creation of men and women
- He gave earth rain and and thunder and snow
- put stars and planets in the sky
- Jupiter was named after Zeus, because it’s the biggest planet and Zeus was the most powerful God