What Crime Did Zeus Commit

Zeus punished the worst villians of myth for their impiety and crimes against the gods including Tantalos who stole ambrosia from heaven, Lykaon (Lycaon) who served human flesh to the gods, Ixion who attempted to rape Zeus’ wife the goddess Hera, and Salmoneus who tried to imitate Zeus and steal the worship that was …

What are some of the crimes that Zeus commit?

• If he saw a woman he wanted sexually, her consent didn’t matter to him at all. …
• He constantly cheated on Hera, his wife. …
• He indulged in a lot of incest. …
• He married Metis, and then killed her because he wanted to marry Hera. …
• Zeus punished Prometheus to an eternity of torture because he gave fire to the humans.

Did Zeus sleep with a man?

Zeus didn’t limit his metamorphosing-seduction techniques to the ladies. Zeus was attracted to a young man named Ganymede, so, naturally, Zeus turned himself into an eagle and abducted Ganymede to Olympus. There, Ganymede became cupbearer to the gods and Zeus’s lover, much to the angst of Hera, Zeus’s wife.