If he is father, that is not just a pleasing aspect of family life and it does not make him into some creator god on the Judaeo-Christian model - that came later. He is father because he has unquestion authority over the family of gods, and over a sort of extended household made up of both gods and men (Lloyd-Jones 1971:33). It is in a way proof of this that he is in fact, as we will see below a father of some gods and father of some men, notably those at the beginnings of nations. But of course he is the brother, surprisingly the youngest, of Poseidon, Hades, Demeter and of his wife Hera.
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