Group 2

Leader: Amerila, Kwinzel

Members:
Madero, Kyle
Miguel, Ryan
Palisoc, Harold
Lumanta, Myra
Maghanoy, Josephine
Villalon, Nikki
The 8 most
known Wives of
Zeus
Ananke/Themis
The Titaness of Custom and Tradition was one of the
first wives of Zeus. She bore him two sets of offspring: the
three Horai (Seasons also representing Justice, Peace, Good
Governance), the three Moirai (Fates), and in some accounts,
of three prophetic Nymphai.


Morai offsprings:
Atrophos
Clotho
Lachesis
Horai offsprings:
Eunomia
Eirene
Dike
Eurynome
A Titan goddess who was the mother by Zeus of the
three Kharites (Graces) and, according to some, The river-god
Asopos.

Three Graces:
Aglaea
Euphrosyne
Thalia
Demeter
The Goddess of Agriculture and Zeus mated in the
form of intertwining serpents. From this union the goddess
Persephone was born (some say Dionysos was also their son).
Also known as A nymph.
Mnemosyne
The Titaness of memory and remembrance and the
inventress of language and words was seduced by Zeus in the
disguise of a shepherd. He lay with her for nine nights and
gave birth to the nine goddesses known as Muses.

Nine Muses:
Calliope
Clio
Euterpe
Erato
Melpomene
Polyhymnia
Tersichore
Thalia
Urania
Hera
Is the wife and one of three sisters of Zeus in the
Olympian pantheon of Greek mythology and religion. Her chief
function was as the supreme goddess, of women and
marriage. Hera was known for her jealous and vengeful
nature against Zeus's lovers and offspring, but also against
mortals who crossed her, such as Pelias. Paris also earned
Hera's hatred by choosing Aphrodite as the most beautiful
goddess.

Offsprings:
Ares
Eileithyia
Eris
Hebe
Hepheastus
Angelos

Leda
Was a Spartan queen. Zeus came to her as a swan and
when Leda produced two eggs, the twins, Castor and
Polydeuces were born. the other set of twins, Clytemnestra
and Helen of Troy were born.
Leto
A Titan goddess who was loved by Zeus. She bore him
the twin gods Apollon and Artemis. Is a daughter of
the Titans Coeus and Phoebe and the sister of Asteria.
Mothers of the
Divine Children
Aega
Was, according to Hyginus, is a daughter of Olenus,
who was a descendant of Hephaestus. Aega and her
sister Helic nursed the infant Zeus in Crete, and the former
was afterwards changed by the god into the constellation
called Capella. According to other traditions mentioned by
Hyginus, Aega was a daughter of Melisseus, king of Crete,
and was chosen to suckle the infant Zeus; but as she was
found unable to do it, the service was performed by the
goat Amalthea. Hyginus also reports a tradition that while
married to Pan she had a son by Zeus whom she
called Aegipan.
Aphrodite
The Goddess of Love and Beauty was pursued by Zeus
when she first emerged from the sea but managed to escape
him. According to some, she later had an affair with the god,
and through the curses of Hera bore a deformed son: the god
Priapos (most sources however say his father was Dionysos).
Dione
A Titaness who, according to some, bore Zeus the
goddess Aphrodite (though most accounts say she was born
in the sea, grown from the severed genitalia of Ouranos). An
even rarer account, makes her the mother of Dionysos, also by
Zeus (again contrary to the usual tradition where Dionysos'
mother is Semele). One source describes her as an ancient
wife of Zeus.
Eris
Is the Greek goddess of chaos, strife and discord. Her
name is translated into Latin as Discordia, which means
"discord". Eris' Greek opposite is Harmonia, whose Latin
counterpart is Concordia. Homer equated her with the war-
goddess Enyo, whose Roman counterpart is Bellona.
The dwarf planet Eris is named after the goddess, as is the
religion Discodianism. Bore Limos.
Gaia
The Goddess of the Earth was accidentally
impregnated by Zeus on two separate occasions: in Phrygia
where she gave birth to the goddess Agdistis, and in Kypros
where she bore the Kentauroi Kyprioi. HERA The Queen of
the Gods wed Zeus in a secret ceremony back in the days of
the Titan-War.
Maia
Is the daughter of Atlas and Pleione the Oceanid, and
is the eldest of the seven Pleiades. They were born on Mount
Cyllene in Arcadia, and are sometimes called mountain
nymphs, they were also called the Atlantides.

Offspring:
Hermes
Metis
The Titan goddess of Good Counsel was impregnated
by Zeus who then swallowed her whole upon learning of a
prophecy that she was destined to bear extremely powerful
children; the first, Athena and the second, a son more
powerful than Zeus himself, who would eventually overthrow
Zeus. She gave birth to Athena within the belly of the god,
who later emerged fully grown from the skull of Zeus.
Persephone
The Goddess of Spring (before her abduction to
Haides) was seduced by Zeus in the form of a serpentine
Drakon. She bore him a son, the short-lived god Zagreus.
Later, as goddess of the underworld, she was again seduced
by Zeus but this time disguised as her husband Haides. Bore
Melinoe.
Selene
Is the goddess of the moon. She is the daughter of
the Titans Hyperion and Theia, and sister of the sun-god
Helios, and of Eos, goddess of the dawn. She drives her moon
chariot across the heavens. Several lovers are attributed to
her in various myths, including Zeus, Pan, and the
mortal Endymion.

Offspring:
Ersa
Pandia
Nemean Lion

Thalia
In Greek mythology, is a nymph, the child of
Hepheastus. She is also given as an anthropomorphic
secondary deity of plant life and shoots, possibly as the
culmination of the transmission of knowledge on volcanic
ash's use as a fertilizer. Macrobius's Saturnales (song V)
states how Zeus seized this Thalia while he was in the form of
an eagle, as he did with Aegina, Leto and Ganymede. He then
made love to her near the river Symethe on Sicily and then
buried her in the ground to avoid Hera's jealousy. Her twin
children, the Palici, were thus born from the earth.
Mothers of the
Semi-Divine
Children
Aegina
Was a figure of Greek mythology, the nymph of the
island that bears her name, Aegina, lying in the Saronic
Gulf between Attica and the Peloponnesos. The
archaic Temple of Aphaea, the "Invisible Goddess", on the
island was later subsumed by the cult of Athena. Aphaia may
be read as an attribute of Aegina that provides an epithet, or
as a doublet of the goddess.

Offspring:
Aeacus
Damocrateia
Antiope/Alcmene
Was the wife of Amphitryon and mother, by Zeus,
of Heracles. She was also the mother by Amphitryon
of Iphicles and Laonome.
Callisto
Was a nymph of Lycaon. Transformed into a bear
and set among the stars, she was the bear-mother of
the Arcadians, through her son Arcas.
Carme
The Latinized form of Greek Karm, was a
female Cretan spirit who assisted the grain harvest of
Demeter's Cretan predecessor. According to theOlympian
mythology, she was the mother, by Zeus, of the virginal
huntress Britomartis, also called Diktynna, whom she bore
at Kaino. Carme was the daughter of either Phoenix
and Cassiopeia, or of the divine ploughman Euboulos, son
of Karmanor.
Dana
Was a daughter of King Acrisius of Argos and his wife
Queen Eurydice. She was the mother of the hero Perseus by
Zeus. She was sometimes credited with founding the city of
Ardea in Latium during the Bronze Age.
Dia
Daughter of Deioneus or Eioneus, wife of Ixion (who
killed her father so as to not pay the bride price) and with her
husband, she became mother of the Lapith Pirithous, whose
marriage to Hippodameia was the occasion of the
Lapiths' battle with the Centaurs. According to Homer, after
having sex with Zeus, who was disguised as a stallion, she
gave birth to Pirithous; a folk etymology derived Pirithous'
name as "to run around", because that was what Zeus did to
seduce Dia.
Elara
Was a mortal princess, the daughter of King
Orchomenus and mother of the giant Tityos by Zeus.
Europa
Was a Phoenician woman of high lineage, from whom the
name of the continent Europe has ultimately been taken. The
story of her abduction by Zeus in the form of a white bull was
a Cretan story.

Offspring:
Minos
Rhadamanthus
Sarpedon
Alagonia
Carnus
Dodon
Eurymedousa
Daughter of Cletor or Achelous. Zeus changed her into
an ant and then raped her, also impregnating her. As a result,
she gave birth to Myrmidon.
Himalia
Is a nymph in Greek mythology. Zeus was enamoured
with her and she produced three sons with
him, Spartaios, Kronios, and Kytos.
Iodame
Was the daughter of Itonus and granddaughter
of Amphictyon. She was a priestess at the temple
of Athena Itonia built by her father. One night, Athena
appeared in front of her; at the sight of Medusa's head which
was worked in the goddess' garment, Iodame turned into
stone. Since then, a priestess lit the fire on the altar every
day, repeating thrice: "Iodame lives and demands fire".
According to John Tzetzes, Iodame became mother of Thebe
with Zeus.
Io
Was, in Greek mythology, a priestess of Hera in Argos,
a nymph who was seduced by Zeus, who changed her into
a heifer to escape detection. His wife Hera sent ever -
watchful Argus Panoptes, with 100 eyes, to watch her,
but Hermes was sent to distract the guardian and slay him.
Heifer Io was loosed to roam the world, stung by a
maddening gadfly sent by Hera, and wandered to Egypt. Io
escaped across the Ionian Sea to Egypt, where she was
restored to human form by Zeus. There, she gave birth to
Zeus's son Epaphus, and a daughter as well, Keroessa.
Laodamia
Daughter of Bellerophon and Philonoe, sister of
Hippolochus and Isander and the mother of Sarpedon by Zeus.
She was shot by Artemis (that is, died a sudden, instant
death) one day when she was weaving. Diodorus
Siculus makes her the wife of Evander, who was a son of
Sarpedon the elder and by her father of Sarpedon the younger.
Niobe
Was a daughter of Phoroneus and the mother
by Zeus of Argus, who was the eponym of Argos and
sometimes, Pelasgus. She is not to be confused with the more
famous Niobe, who was punished for boasting that she had
more children that Leto. According to Pausanias, the Argives
of his day said that she had a daughter named Meliboea, later
called Chloris, a statue of whom Praxiteles had crafted for the
Sanctuary of Leto in Argos.
Pandora 2
Was a daughter of King Deucalion and Pyrrha who was
named after her maternal grandmother, the more
famous Pandora. According to the Hesiodic Catalogue of
Women , she was the mother of Graecus and Latinus by the
god Zeus.
Plouto
/
Pluto
Was a nymph and the mother of Tantalus by Zeus. Her
parents were Oceanus and Tethys (thus making Plouto one of
the 3000 Oceanids) or Himas, a Lydian that was otherwise
unknown. Plouto was said to be married to Tmolus, the
stepfather of Tantalus.
Semele
Daughter of the Boeotian hero Cadmus and Harmonia,
was the mortal mother of Dionysus by Zeus in one of his many
origin myths.
Taygete
Was a nymph, one of the Pleiades and a companion
of Artemis, in her archaic role as potnia theron, "Mistress of
the animals". Mount Taygetos in Laconia, dedicated to the
goddess, was her haunt.

Offspring:
Lcedaemon
Thyia

Was the name of a female figure associated with cults
of several major gods. According to a quotation from Hesiod's
lost work the Catalogue of Women, preserved in the De
Thematibus of Constantine Porphyrogenitus and in Stephanus
of Byzantium'sEthnika, Thyia was the daughter
of Deucalion and Pyrrha and mother
of Magnes and Makednos (the claimed ancestor of
the Macedonians) by Zeus.