I'm Zeus, god of the sky, lightning, thunder, law, order and justice.

I'm the child of Cronus, which I overthrew, and Rhea, the youngest of my siblings to be born, though sometimes reckoned the eldest as the others required disgorging from Cronus's stomach. In most traditions, I'm married to Hera, by whom I am usually said to have fathered Ares, Hebe, and Hephaestus. I am the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion, who rules as king of the gods of Mount Olympus. My name is cognate with the first element of my Roman equivalent Jupiter. My mythology and powers are similar, though not identical, to those of Indo-European deities such as Jupiter, Perkūnas, Perun, Indra, Dyaus and Thor.

At the oracle of Dodona, my consort was said to be Dione, by whom the Iliad states that I fathered Aphrodite.I was also infamous for my erotic escapades. These resulted in many divine and heroic offspring, including Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Hermes, Persephone, Dionysus, Perseus, Heracles, Helen of Troy, Minos, and the Muses.

I was respected as an allfather who was chief of the gods and assigned roles to the others "Even the gods who are not my natural children address me as Father, and all the gods rise in my presence." I was equated with many foreign weather gods, permitting Pausanias to observe "That I'm king in heaven which is a saying common to all men". My symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull, and oak. In addition to my Indo-European inheritance, the classical "cloud-gatherer" also derives certain iconographic traits from the cultures of the ancient Near East, such as the scepter. I'm frequently depicted by Greek artists in one of two poses: standing, striding forward with a thunderbolt leveled in my raised right hand, or seated in #majesty.