to drug Zeus, and in this she was successful. The gods then bound the sleeping Zeus to a couch taking care to tie many knots. This done they began to quarrel over the next step. Briareus overheard the arguments. Still full of gratitude to Zeus, Briareus slipped in and was able to quickly untie the many knots. Zeus sprang from the couch and grabbed up his thunderbolt. The gods fell to their knees begging and pleading for mercy. He seized Hera and hung her from the sky with gold chains. She had little choice but to agree. One myth tells how Hades kidnapped Persephone, one of Zeus’s daughters, to make her his wife. Zeus overthrew his father Cronus, who was swallowing all of his siblings, by getting him into drinking an emitic, which causes Cronus to through up all of his siblings. Heracles, son of Zeus, once wrestled Zeus to a draw for rule of the Olympians. His sons, Aias. Aphrodite was wounded protecting her son Aineias. Ares’ son, Askalaphos, was killed, and, of course, Achilleus, son of the goddess Tethys, was to be the grand sacrifice. Like humans through out history, the Gods also had wars. During the Trojan War there were many sons of the immortals in the battle for Troy. Zeus let his son Sarpedon die on the battlefield at the hands of another of Zeus’s sons. ...
