Zeus was the child of Cronus and Rhea, and the youngest of his siblings. His Roman counterpart was Jupiter and his Etruscan counterpart Tinia. Zeus is frequently depicted by Greek artists in one of two poses: standing, striding forward, with a thunderbolt leveled in his raised right hand, or seated in majesty. In addition to his Indo-European inheritance, the classical "cloud-gatherer" also derives certain iconographic traits from the cultures of the Ancient Near East, such as the scepter.
His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull and oak. In the Homeric Hymns he is referred to as the chieftain of the gods.
In Hesiod's Theogony, Zeus assigns the various gods their roles. As Pausanias observed, "That Zeus is king in heaven is a saying common to all men". As Walter Burkert points out in his book, Greek Religion, "Even the gods who are not his natural children address him as Father, and all the gods rise in his presence."( Iliad, book 1.503 533) For the Greeks, he was the King of the Gods, who oversaw the universe. In Greek mythology Zeus (pronounced: /ˈzuːs/ or /ˈzjuːs/ Ancient Greek: Ζεύς Modern Greek: Δίας, Dias) is the "Father of Gods and men", according to Hesiod's Theogony, who ruled the Olympians of Mount Olympus as a father ruled the family he was the god of sky and thunder in Greek mythology.
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