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Zeus or Dios (“divine king”) is the leader of the gods and god of the sky and thunder in Greek mythology. Zeus played a huge role in the Olympic pantheon. He fathered many of the heroes and heroines (see list at bottom of article) and was featured in many of their stories. Zeus is the continuation of Dyeus, the supreme god in Indo-European religion, also continued as Vedic Dyaus Pitar (cf. Jupiter), and as Tyr in Germanic and Norse mythology. In addition to his Indo-European inheritance, the classical Zeus also derives certain iconographic traits from the cultures of the ancient Near East,. Zeus was equivalent to the Roman god Jupiter (from Jovis Pater or “Father Jove”) and associated in the syncretic classical imagination with various other deities, such as the Egyptian Ammon and the Etruscan Tinia. He (along with Dionysus) absorbed the role of the chief Phrygian god Sabazios in the syncretic deity known in Rome as Sabazius. Eros was the god responsible for lust, love, and sex; he was also worshipped as a fertility deity. His name is the root of words such as erotic. His Roman equivalent was Cupid, “desire”, also known as Amor, “love”. He was often associated with Aphrodite. He was like Dionysus, sometimes referred to as Eleutherios, “the liberator”. Comes with a hook in the back for easy wall hanging.
