ヘーラーはエウベア島でマクリスというニンフに育てられたが、ゼウスに連れ去られ、プルタークの言葉によれば、シタエロン山が「二人に日陰を与えてくれた」という説もある。マクリスが彼女を探しに来たとき、山の神シタエロンが「ゼウスはレートーと一緒にそこで楽しんでいる」と言って追い払った<ref>Eusebius, ''Praeparatio evangelica'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=yNRKAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA92 3.1.84a-b]; Hard 2004, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA137 p. 137]</ref>。
カリマコスによれば、彼らの婚礼の宴は三千年続いたという<ref>Callimachus, ''Aetia'' fragment [https://dcc.dickinson.edu/callimachus-aetia/untitled-48 48]</ref>。ヘーラークレースがエウリュステウスから託されたヘスペリデスのリンゴは、ガイアが二人に贈った結婚式の贈り物だった<ref>Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''Library'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022%3Atext%3DLibrary%3Abook%3D2%3Achapter%3D5%3Asection%3D11 2.5.11]</ref>。
According to [[Callimachus]], their wedding feast lasted three thousand years. The Apples of the [[Hesperides]] that [[Heracles]] was tasked by [[Eurystheus]] to take were a wedding gift by [[Gaia]] to the couple.<ref>[[Pseudo-Apollodorus]], ''Library'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022%3Atext%3DLibrary%3Abook%3D2%3Achapter%3D5%3Asection%3D11 2.5.11]</ref>
Zeus mated with several [[nymph]]s and was seen as the father of many mythical mortal progenitors of [[Greeks|Hellenic]] dynasties. Aside from his seven wives, relationships with immortals included [[Dione (Titaness)|Dione]] and [[Maia]].<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022%3Atext%3DLibrary%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D3%3Asection%3D1 1.3.1]</ref><ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/4#938 938]</ref> Among mortals were [[Semele]], [[Io (mythology)|Io]], [[Europa (mythology)|Europa]] and [[Leda (mythology)|Leda]] (for more details, see below) and with the young [[Ganymede (mythology)|Ganymede]] (although he was mortal Zeus granted him eternal youth and immortality).