オルフィックの『狂詩曲』(紀元前1世紀/紀元後1世紀)では<ref>Meisner, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ethjDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1 1], [https://books.google.com/books?id=ethjDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA5 5]</ref>、ゼウスは母レーアーと結婚することを望んでいた[132]。レアが結婚を拒んだため、ゼウスは蛇に変身して彼女を犯した。レーアーは妊娠し、ペルセポネーを産んだ。 蛇の姿をしたゼウスは娘のペルセポネーと交尾し、その結果ディオニューソスが誕生した<ref name=":0">West 1983, pp. 73–74; Meisner, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ethjDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA134 p. 134]; Orphic frr. [https://archive.org/details/orphicorumfragme00orphuoft/page/16/mode/2up?view=theater 58] [= Athenagoras, ''Legatio Pro Christianis'' 20.2] [https://archive.org/details/orphicorumfragme00orphuoft/page/192/mode/2up?view=theater 153] Kern.</ref>。
ゼウスは、アルクメオンの息子であるアカルナンとアンフォテラスが早く成長し、フェゲウスとその二人の息子に殺された父の仇を討てるようにというカリルローの願いを叶えた<ref>Apollodorus, [https://topostext.org/work/150#3.7.6 3.76].</ref>。
Zeus granted [[Callirrhoe (daughter of Achelous)|Callirrhoe's]] prayer that her sons by [[Alcmaeon (mythology)|Alcmaeon]], [[Acarnan]] and [[Amphoterus (son of Alcmaeon)|Amphoterus]], grow quickly so that they might be able to avenge the death of their father by the hands of [[Phegeus (king of Psophis)|Phegeus]] and his two sons.<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://topostext.org/work/150#3.7.6 3.76].</ref>
Both Zeus and [[Poseidon]] wooed [[Thetis]], daughter of [[Nereus]]. But when [[Themis]] (or Prometheus) prophesied that the son born of Thetis would be mightier than his father, Thetis was married off to the mortal [[Peleus]].<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://topostext.org/work/150#3.13.5 3.13.5].</ref><ref>[[Pindar]], Isthmian odes [https://topostext.org/work/21#8.25 8.25]</ref>