The Liaisons of ZEUS

GIRLFRIENDS AND OFFSPRING

• METIS
                     -ATHENA (with the aid of Prometheus or Hephaestus)
  
  
• THEMIS
                     -Seasons  (Eunomia, Dike, Eirene)
                     -Fates (Moirai: Clotho, Lacheses, Atropos)
  
  
• Eurynome
                     -Graces (Charis, Aglaia, Pasitheia)
  
  
• DEMETER
                     -PERSEPHONE [Perse, Proserpina]
  
  
• MNEMOSYNE
                     -MUSES (nine: Hesiod, Theogony )
  
  
• LETO
                     -APOLLO and ARTEMIS [Diana] twins

• HERA
                     -ARES [Mars], Eileithyeia, Hebe, [Eris?]

• Maia
                     -HERMES
  
  
• Semele
                     -DIONYSOS
  
  
• Io
                     -Epaphus (Apis bull of Egypt)
  
  
• Antiope
                     -Zethus, Amphion (Theban rulers, Oedipus' great-uncles)
  
  
• Leda
                     -Helen, Pollux (half-siblings of Castor and Clytamnestra)
  
  
• Niobe (daughter of Phoroneus)
                     -Argus (Hera's watchman) [Apollodorus II.1.1]
  
  
• Europa
                     -MINOS (father of Ariadne and Phaedra), Rhadamanthys, Sarpedon
  
  
• Danaë
                     -PERSEUS (Herakles' great-grandfather)
  
  
• Electra (Pleiad)
                     -Dardanus (ancestor of Priam and Aeneas), Iasion
  
  
• Taygete
                     -Lacedaemon
  
  
• Eurynome
                     -Aesopus River (father of Aegina, the island)
  
  
• Aegina
                     -Aeacus (father of Peleus, grandfather of ACHILLES)
  
  
• Callisto
                     -Arcas
  
  
• ALCMENE
                     -HERAKLES
  
  
• Plouto (daughter of Kronos)
                     -TANTALUS (father of PELOPS, grandfather of PITTHEUS, ATREUS, and
                           THYESTES, great-great-grandfather of THESEUS)
  

Liaisons of ZEUS and YOUNG MEN

• GANYMEDE: Trojan prince, Cupbearer of Zeus (Iliad XX. 231; Ibycus, Fragment 289)
  
  
• PHAENON: (Hyginus Poetica Astronomica 2. 42) a creation of Prometheus, reported to Zeus
  by Eros, carried to Zeus by Hermes, became the Planet Jupiter or Saturn