Zeus Zeus Zeus (; , "Zeús" ) is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion, who rules as king of the gods of Mount Olympus. His name is cognate with the first element of his Roman equivalent Jupiter. His mythologies and powers are similar, though not identical, to those of Indo-European deities such as Indra, Jupiter, Perkūnas, Perun, Thor, and Odin. Zeus is the child of Cronus and Rhea, the youngest of his siblings to be born, though sometimes reckoned the eldest as the others required disgorging from Cronus's stomach. In most traditions, he is married to Hera, by
Shepherds of the Romans Shepherds of the Romans The shepherds of the Romans () were a population living in the Carpathian Basin at the time of the Hungarian conquest of the territory around 900, according to the "Gesta Hungarorum" and other medieval sources. The identification of the lowlands east of the Middle Danube as pasturing lands was first recorded in Emperor Constantine VII's "De administrando imperio" ("On Administering the Empire") in connection with the towns of Dalmatia. The Emperor wrote that "the Avars had their haunts on the far side of the river Danube", adding that the Dalmatians saw "the beasts and men on