[Vaevictis Asmadi]

SuedodeuS has some good points.

Also, those stories were also told by men who apparently thought it was just fine to cheat on their wives like there was no tomorrow, but that other no circumstances could a respectable woman cheat even once. And other male gods slept with multiple goddesses and human women, though none as often as Zeus. Partly, it was because every great hero and many great noble families needed Zeus or another god to be their ancestor or they were somehow not as great.

Plus, he's the god of rain and fertility (among other things). If he didn't fertilize the whole world, he wouldn't be the Father of Gods and Men.


There are stories of mortals coveting goddesses, but often as cautionary tales about not coveting the gods' property, or insulting the goddesses. Ixion wanted to rape Hera, and he was punished with eternal torture in Tartaros, after being tricked into fathering the centaurs. Aktaion peeked at Artemis, and she killed him. In one story, Teiresias accidentally peeked at Athena, and she blinded him.