Zeus was the god who defeated his father. According to Ron Leadbetter, author of the web page, Encyclopedia Mythica, http://www.pantheon.org/articles/z/zeus.html, Rhea and Cronus were his parents. When he heard one day from a someone that one of his sons would dethrone him and take the throne from him, he swallowed all of his new-born children. But his wife, Rhea, smuggled Zeus to the island of Crete, and the divine goat Amaltheia raised Zeus. When he grew up like Hercules, returned to his father's domain. He then got all of his siblings out of his father, and had war against him and the titans. He defeated them and banished them. His father, to Uranus, and the titans to 'Tartarus' the lowest place on earth, even lower than the underworld.
He was similar to his son, Hercules. Because they both helped all the gods, Zeus by letting them out of his father's stomach, and the Hercules by freeing them of the chains and harden lava. But the difference is that Zeus was a god from the start, while Hercules had to work to become a god.
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