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 Kéza and the 14th-century identified these "shepherds and husbandmen" as Vlachs. According to the chapter 9 of the "Gesta Hungarorum", Rus' princes informed the Magyars who marched by Kiev towards "Pannonia" that in that land "there lived the Slavs, Bulgarians, Vlachs, and the shepherds of the Romans" "(quam terram habitarent Sclavi, Bulgarii et Blachii ac pastores Romanorum)". The anonymus author of the "Gesta" added that "after the death of King Attila, the Romans said the land of Pannonia was pastureland because their flocks grazed in the land of Pannonia". Shepherds of the Romans The shepherds of the Romans () were