As I said earlier I'm a Greek mythology fanatic and you would get a lot of it, so getting into this little documentary which took me 3 days to set up Zeus was a sexually adventurous god who made a significant strand of ancient Greek mythology.Without Zeus, many artistic expressions would probably not exist.
One of Zeus' affairs was with Mnemosyne, the titan goddess of memory. He slept with her consecutively on nine different occasions which gave birth to nine different daughters they were known as the muses and they became responsible for inspiring mortals in a particular area of artistic part.Zeus's instinct for trickery was an integral part of his character and informed all of his erotic exploits. He had assumed the form of a human being (mortal not to sound too serious) to seduce Mnemosyne, and many of his other love affairs involved similar sorts of shape-shifting. Hera, Zeus’s wife, had also been won this way. The notoriously formidable goddess had dismissed Zeus badly when he had first approached her, forcing him to take deceptive measures to win her affections. First, he summoned a thunderstorm, then he stood outside her window and took on the form of a weak bird, its expression helpless and its feathers ruffled up as if chilled and battered by the wind-blown hail. Hera could not bear to see this tiny creature suffering. She picked the bird in her hand and placed it inside her dress against her bosom so that it could get warm. At this point, Zeus assumed his normal quasi-human form and seduced her. The conquest of hera was not the only ordeal he had his way with the spartan princess Leda and the Theban princess Semele.In some stories, it was Zeus’s quarry who had to take a different shape. In the case of Io – the daughter of the king of Argos, and a priestess in the temple of Zeus’s wife Hera – Zeus transformed himself into a cloud to make his approach and conceal it from the watchful Hera. Once he had raped Io, he turned her into a beautiful white heifer, to hide her from his wife. Hera saw through the trick and asked if she could have the heifer as a gift. Zeus had no option but to agree. Hera consigned Io to the care of the hundred-eyed giant Argus to watch over. Maddened with frustration, Zeus sent his son Hermes to slay the all-seeing herdsman; the divine messenger blinded Argus with a touch from his kerykeion, or staff. As the giant lay there dead, Hermes collected up his hundred eyes and set them in a peacock’s tail: the bird was sacred to Hera from that time on. If Zeus thought the way was now clear for him to pursue Io, he was wrong. Hera sent a fly to attack her. Buzzing about, and biting her again and again, the Hera sent a fly to attack her. Buzzing about, and biting her again and again, the insect put Io to flight and chased her across the earth. Io was never to find rest. Metis, Zeus’s cousin – and in some accounts, his first wife – wrought her own transformation in a bid to shake off Zeus’s pursuit. Metis assumed a series of different forms to avoid him, but Zeus eventually succeeded in catching her and making her pregnant. Nevertheless, Zeus was worried: Metis was renowned for her sharp intellect and wiliness, and an oracle had told him that Metis was destined to bear a child who matched her strength and cunning. Zeus – a usurper who had overthrown his own father – was on his guard against this child. Just before Metis was due to give birth, Zeus challenged her to a shape-shifting match. She was vain enough to agree. When Zeus told her that he did not believe she could transform herself into a tiny fly, she promptly did – and was swallowed by a triumphant Zeus. It was a clever trick, but it did not succeed. When Zeus developed an unbearable headache, the Titan god Prometheus swung an ax at his head, splitting it wide open. Out from the wound sprang Athena, the goddess of war and wisdom, in a full suit of armor. She became one of the most important deities on Olympus and the patron goddess of the powerful city-state of Athens.
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