宙斯的妻子和有趣的希臘故事(英文)NEED ENGLISH!!!

Zeus Lovers

Europa
Europa was the daughter of the King Agenor of Sidon. She had the continent of Europe named for her. Somewhat miraculously Hera was distracted during her affair with Zeus and never punished her for it.

One night Europa had a dream. In this dream two continents, which were in the forms of women were arguing over Europa. Asia maintained that since Europa had been born in Asia she belonged to it. The other continent, which was nameless, said that her birth was not important, that Zeus would give her to it.

It was early morning, disturbed by the dream Europa did not go back to sleep. She summoned her companions, who were all daughters of nobility and of her age. It was a beautiful day and they went off gathering flowers by the sea. Zeus noticed this charming group, particularly Europa, who was the prettiest of the maidens. Some say that Eros, induced him into action with one of his darts. Although, Zeus often made due with self motivation. In any case, Zeus appeared to the group as a white bull. A white bull more beautiful then any other. A bull that smelled of flowers, and lowed musically. A bull so obviously gentle that all the maidens rushed to stroke and pet it.

The bull laid down in front of Europa. She slid on to its back. Instantly, the bull charged off, plunging into the sea, and began to swim rapidly from the shore. Europa saw that a procession had joined them, Nereids riding dolphins, Triton blowing his horn, even Poseidon. From this she realized that the bull must be a god. She pleaded with him to pity her. Zeus spoke to her and explained his love. He took her to Create, where he had been raised. He promised that she would bear him many famous sons.

Her sons included Minos I and Rhadamanthus.


Io
Zeus fell in love with Io and seduced her. To try to keep Hera from noticing he covered the world with a thick blanket of clouds. This backfired, arousing Hera's suspicions. She came down from Mount Olympus and began dispersing the clouds. Zeus did some quick thinking and changed Io's form from being a lovely maiden. So as the clouds dispersed Hera found Zeus standing next to a white heifer. He then swore that he had never seen the cow before, it had just sprang right out of the earth. Seeing right through this Hera complemented the cow and asked to have it as a present. As turning such a reasonable request down would have given the whole thing away, Zeus presented her with the cow.

She sent the cow away and arranged Argus Panoptes to watch over it. Since Argus had a hundred eyes and could have some of them sleep while others were awake he made a fine watchman. Desperate, Zeus sent Hermes to fetch Io. Disguised as a Shepard, Hermes had to employ all his skill as a musician and story teller to gain Argus confidence and lull him to sleep. Once asleep Hermes killed Argus. As a memorial, Hera took his eyes and set them into the tail of her favorite bird, the peacock.

While Io was now free Hera sent the mother of all gad-flys to sting the still bovine Io. The ghost of Argus pursued her as well. This pushed her near madness, trying to escape she wandered the world. During her wanders she came across Prometheus while chained. He gave her hope. He predicted that she would have to wander for many years. But, she would eventually be changed back into human form and would bear a child. He predicted that a descendent of this child would be a great hero and set him free.

His predictions came true. During her wanderings many geographical features were named after her including the Ionian Sea, and the Bosphorus (which means ford of the cow). She eventually reached the Nile where Zeus did restore her to human form. She bore Epaphus and eleven generations later her descendant Heracles would set Prometheus free.....

（太長，餘略）

Zeus (in Greek: nominative: Ζεύς Zeús, genitive: Διός Diós), is the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus, and god of the sky and thunder, in Greek mythology. His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull and the oak. In addition to his Indo-European inheritance, the classical Zeus also derives certain iconographic traits from the cultures of the ancient Near East, such as the scepter. Zeus is frequently envisaged by Greek artists in one of two poses: standing, striding forward, a thunderbolt leveled in his raised right hand, or seated in majesty.

The son of Cronus and Rhea, he was the youngest of his siblings. He was married to Hera in most traditions, although at the oracle of Dodona his consort was Dione: according to the Iliad, he is the father of Aphrodite by Dione. Accordingly, he is known for his erotic escapades, including one pederastic relationship with Ganymede. His trysts resulted in many famous offspring, including Athena, Apollo and Artemis, Hermes, Persephone (by Demeter), Dionysus, Perseus, Heracles, Helen, Minos, and the Muses (by Mnemosyne); by Hera he is usually said to have sired Ares, Hebe and Hephaestus.

His Roman counterpart was Jupiter, and his Etruscan counterpart was Tinia.

菲迪亞斯約前435年所雕刻的奧林匹亞宙斯巨像。這座達12米高的雕像曾是古希臘最有名的大理石像。圖為16世紀人所畫。宙斯（希臘語：Ζεύς，或Δίας），天神，古希臘神話中最高的神，羅馬神話中稱朱庇特（拉丁語：Jupiter），為克洛諾斯（Κρόνος）與雷亞（Ρέα）所生的最小兒子。


[編輯] 關於宙斯

[編輯] 宙斯的功績

[編輯] 宙斯的感情生活
宙斯與多位女神和女人生下多位子孫，當中有阿波羅和阿爾忒彌斯兄妹、狄俄尼索斯、希拉克勒斯等。宙斯為了接近女神和女人，可謂無所不用其極，而且他總是偷偷摸摸的，所以總會令希拉生氣。為了不被希拉知道他的外遇的所在地，他總會以各種不同的方法去阻礙希拉。宙斯也有一些男性情人，如蓋尼米得。


[編輯] 宙斯的武器
宙斯的武器是「雷霆」和埃癸斯（Αιγίς，即“宙斯之盾”）。宙斯的雷霆是由獨眼巨人（Κύκλωψ）打造的，連眾神也會為其力量震懾，埃癸斯是由赫菲斯托斯打造的，雖然是由山羊皮造成，但它充滿著魔法，連宙斯的雷霆也對它絲毫無損。


赫拉（希臘語：Ἡρα或Ἡρη）是古希臘神話中的天后，她是克羅諾斯（Κρόνος）和瑞婭（Ρέα）的長女，也是宙斯的姐姐，赫拉這個名字的原意是「貴婦」，是宙斯（Ζεύς）的第三位妻子，相對應於羅馬神話的朱諾（拉丁語：Juno）。


[編輯] 關於赫拉

[編輯] 赫拉的職責
掌管婚姻和生育，是婦女的保護神，但妒忌心特強，對宙斯外遇的對象進行百般加害。她也是權利的象徵。


[編輯] 赫拉的武器
據說赫拉擁有聖鳥孔雀、聖木石榴樹與蘋果樹。