was made to bring up the children he had swallowed, and first of all the stone, which was afterwards set up by Zeus at Delphi. The young god now delivered the Cyclopes from the bonds with which they had been fettered by Cronus, and they, in their gratitude, provided him with thunder and lightning. On the advice of Ge, Zeus also liberated the hundredarmed Gigantes-Briareus, Cottus, and Gyesthat they might assist him in his fight against the Titans. The Titans were conquered and shut up in Tartarus, where they were henceforth guarded by the Hecatoncheires. Thereupon Tartarus and Ge begot Typhoeus, who began a fearful struggle with Zeus, but was conquered. Zeus now obtained the dominion of the world, and chose Metis for his wife. When she was pregnant with Athena (Minerva), he took the child out of her body and concealed it in his head, on the advice of Uranus and Ge, who told him that thereby he would retain the supremacy of the world; for if Metis had given birth to a son, this son (so fate had ordained it) would have acquired the sovereignty. After this Zeus became the father of the Horae and Moerae, by his second wife Themis; of the Charites or Graces, by Eurynome; of Persephone (Proserpine), by Demeter of the Muses, by Mnemosyne; of Apollo and Artemis (Diana), by Leto; and of Hebe, Ares, and Ilithyia, by Hera. Athena was born out of the head of Zeus; while Hera, on the other hand, gave birth to Hephaestus without the co-operation of Zeus. The family of the Cronidae accordingly embraces the 12 great gods of Olympus, Zeus (the head of them all), Poseidon, Apollo, Ares, Hermes ZOPYRUS. he was worshiped, and partly from his powers and functions. The eagle, the oak, and the summits of mountains were sacred to him, and his sacrifices generally consisted of goats, bulls, and cows. His usual attributes are, the sceptre, eagle, thunderbolt, and a figure of Victory in his hand, and sometimes also a cornucopia. The Olympian Zeus sometimes wears a wreath of olive, and the Dodonaean Zeus a wreath of oak leaves. In works of art, Zeus is generally represented as the omnipotent father and king of gods and men, according to the idea which had been embodied in the statue of the Olympian Zeus by Phidias. Respecting the Roman god, see JUPITER. ZEUXIS (-idis), the celebrated Greek painter, was a native of Heraclea, and flourished B.O. beginning of the Peloponnesian war, when he had already achieved a great reputation, although a young man. He lived some years in Macedonia, at the court of Archelaus, and must have spent some time in Magna Graecia, as we learn from the story respecting the pictnre of Helen, his masterpiece, which he painted for the city of Croton. Zeuxis acquired a great fortune by his art. The time of his death is unknown. The accurate imitation of inanimate objects was a department of the art which Zeuxis and his younger rival Parrhasins appear to have carried almost to per 424-400. He came to Athens soon after the fection. ZOILUS (-i), a grammarian, was a native of Amphipolis, and flourished in the time of Philip of Macedon. He was celebrated for the asperity with which he assailed Homer, and his name became proverbial for a captious and malignant critic. ZOPYRUS (-i). (1) A distinguished Persian, son of Megabyzus. After Darius Hystaspis had besieged Babylon for 20 months in vain, Zopyrus resolved to gain the place for his master by the most extraordinary self-sacrifice. 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