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[[File:Otricoli Zeus - 1889 drawing.jpg|thumb|A bust of Zeus.]]
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==Roles and epithets役割と呼称 =={{See also|:Category:Epithets of Zeus|l1=Category:Epithets of Zeus}}[[File:Bust of Zeus.jpg|thumb|Roman marble colossal head of Zeus, 2nd century AD ([[British Museum]])<ref>The bust below the base of the neck is eighteenth century. The head, which is roughly worked at back and must have occupied a [[Niche (architecture)|niche]], was found at [[Hadrian's Villa]], [[Tivoli, Italy|Tivoli]] and donated to the British Museum by [[John Thomas Barber Beaumont]] in 1836. BM 1516. (British Museum, ''A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities'', 1904).</ref>]]
Zeus played a dominant role, presiding over the [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] Olympian pantheon. He fathered many of the heroes <!--"and heroines" was sweetly motivated, but can we name even one sired by Zeus?--> and was featured in many of their [[Cult (religion)|local cults]]. Though the Homeric "cloud collector" was the god of the sky and thunder like his Near-Eastern counterparts, he was also the supreme cultural artifact; in some senses, he was the embodiment of Greek [[religion|religious]] beliefs and the [[archetype|archetypal]] Greek deity.
*'''Zeus Panhellenios''' ("Zeus of All the [[Names of the Greeks|Greeks]]"): worshipped at [[Aeacus]]'s temple on [[Aegina]]
*'''Zeus Xenios''' (Ξένιος), '''Philoxenon''', or '''Hospites''': Zeus as the patron of hospitality (''[[xenia (Greek)|xenia]]'') and guests, avenger of wrongs done to strangers
Additional names and epithets for Zeus are also:
