Synonyms:
Zeus, genus_Zeus
Meaning: type genus of the family Zeidae
Synonyms:
Zeus
Meaning: (Greek mythology) the supreme god of ancient Greek mythology; son of Rhea and Cronus whom he dethroned; husband and brother of Hera; brother of Poseidon and Hades; father of many gods; counterpart of Roman Jupiter
Usage examples
Zeus, as the word of sooth declared of old--
"I am your guest, fair queen, and I entreat you be Zeus from whom prayers come.
'Lie at the threshold of Zeus, full of lots, one of good, the other of evil lots,'
After all, she is our guest and my suppliant, and prayers are the daughters of Zeus.
He was a brother of Zeus, the sky and atmosphere deity, and had bull and horse forms.
I was infatuated aforetime, when in my folly I declared the will of Zeus in order and to the end.
Indeed he declared that he was actually Zeus, and caused sacrifices to be offered to himself as such.
Was not the father of Iskander the god Zeus Ammon, who came to Iskander's mother in the form of a great snake?
For example, in Arcadia, when the corn and trees were parched with drought, the priest of Zeus dipped an oak branch into a certain spring on Mount Lycaeus.
So the Argonauts escaped for that time; but Father Zeus saw that foul crime; and out of the heavens he sent a storm, and swept the ship far from her course.