He was respected as an allfather who was chief of the gods and assigned roles to the others: "Even the gods who are not his natural children address him as Father, and all the gods rise in his presence." He was equated with many foreign weather gods, permitting Pausanias to observe "That Zeus is king in heaven is a saying common to all men". These resulted in many divine and heroic offspring, including Apollo, Artemis, Hermes, Persephone, Dionysus, Perseus, Heracles, Helen of Troy, Minos, and the Muses. Zeus was also infamous for his erotic escapades. According to the Theogony, Zeus' first wife was Metis, by whom he had Athena. At the oracle of Dodona, his consort was said to be Dione, by whom the Iliad states that he fathered Aphrodite. In most traditions, he is married to Hera, by whom he is usually said to have fathered Ares, Eileithyia, Hebe, and Hephaestus. Zeus is the child of Cronus and Rhea, the youngest of his siblings to be born, though sometimes reckoned the eldest as the others required disgorging from Cronus's stomach. His mythology and powers are similar, though not identical, to those of Indo-European deities such as Jupiter, Perkūnas, Perun, Indra, and Dyaus.
His name is cognate with the first element of his Roman equivalent Jupiter. Zeus is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion, who rules as king of the gods of Mount Olympus.
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