King of the Olympians After the Titanomachy

Zeus was the youngest child of the Titans Cronus and Rhea, and according to Hesiod's Theogony he survived only because Rhea, having watched Cronus swallow each of her previous children at birth for fear of a prophecy that one of them would overthrow him, hid the infant Zeus on Crete and gave Cronus a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes to swallow in his place. Raised in secret, Zeus grew to maturity and returned to force his father to disgorge his swallowed siblings, Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades and Poseidon, who emerged in reverse order of their swallowing. Zeus then led his freed siblings and a group of allied gods called the Olympians in the Titanomachy, a ten year war against Cronus and most of the other Titans, a conflict Hesiod describes as shaking earth and sea alike. Victory let Zeus and his brothers divide the cosmos by lot: Zeus received the sky and became king of the gods, Poseidon the sea, and Hades the underworld, while earth and Olympus remained common ground. Zeus went on to father a vast number of children by both goddesses and mortal women, unions that generated much of the rest of Greek myth, from Athena and Apollo to Heracles and Perseus, and that regularly drew the jealous anger of his wife Hera.