Zeus, the almighty thunder God of the Greek mythology and considered to be the father of gods in Greek mythology was the son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea who escaped from an awful fate thanks to his mother Rhea who duped Chronos to save her son. Also known as Jupiter, in the Roman mythology, the king of Olympus, Zeus was the younger brother of the original six Olympians of the mythology who dethroned his father and released his siblings Hades, Poseidon, Hestia, Demeter and Hera upon the world.