Zeus
c. 1400 BCE – 400 CEattested
Mount Olympus and the Greek world
- Greek
Already named on Mycenaean clay tablets a thousand years before Homer. Sky, thunder, oaths and hospitality, plus a catalogue of affairs that later Greeks found embarrassing.
Known for
- thunderbolt
- guardian of oaths
- the overthrow of Kronos
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.