Artemis as Paximadia. A "scholium" of Servius on "Aeneid" iii. 72 accounts for the island's archaic name Ortygia by asserting that Zeus transformed Leto into a quail ("ortux") in order to prevent Hera from finding out about his infidelity, and Kenneth McLeish suggested further that in quail form Leto would have given birth with as few birth-pains as a mother quail suffers when it lays an egg. The myths also differ as to whether Artemis was born first, or Apollo. Most stories depict Artemis as born first, becoming her mother's midwife upon the birth of her brother Apollo. The childhood of
Zeus (Marvel Comics) is virtually invincible in hurling lightning bolts. Zeus wields Olympian weaponry made by Hephaestus from virtually indestructible adamantine, and sometimes rides in a mystical chariot drawn by magical horses capable of flight and traversing the dimensions. Zeus (Marvel Comics) Zeus, full name Zeus Panhellenios, is a fictional character, a god appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The comic version of Zeus is based on the god of the same name from Greek mythology. Zeus first appears in "Venus" #5 (June 1949), and was adapted by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Zeus is the youngest son of the