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Rhea, however, became pregnant with the twins Romulus and Remus by the god Mars. [ 4 ] According to Plutarch , she believed this because she saw her children being cared for by a woodpecker and a wolf – animals sacred to Mars. [ 9 ]
Mount Thaumasios (Wonderful) lies beyond the river Maloitas [in Arkadia], and the Methydrians hold that when Rhea was pregnant with Zeus, she came to this mountain and enlisted as her allies, in case Kronos should attack her, Hopladamos and his few Gigantes.
Rhea was very sad when she was unable to raise and take care of her first five children. When she became pregnant with her sixth child, she tricked Cronos. Instead of giving Uranus her baby Zeus, she gave him a rock wrapped in a blanket. Cronos swallowed the rock thinking it was the baby.
Rhea Silvia. The daughter of King Numitor of Alba Longa. Her father was dethroned by his brother Amulius, who appointed Rhea Silvia a Vestal Virgin under pretence of honoring her, but hoping that by consigning her to perpetual virginity she would not bear any children.
Dec 22, 2022 · While Rhea was pregnant with Zeus, she approached her parents for help, not wanting Cronus to swallow yet another one of her children. On the advice of Gaia and Uranus, Rhea travelled to the island of Crete , where she gave birth to Zeus in a cave on Mount Dicte.
Rhea Silvia, a vestal virgin and daughter of the former king of Alba Longa, was said to be forcibly seduced or perhaps lovingly courted by the god of war, Mars. The union between a mortal woman and a Roman deity resulted in the conception of twin sons, who would later stand as pivotal figures in Rome’s fabled history.
Like mentioned in Ovid's Fasti, Rhea was mad and angry because she was often pregnant but never truly a mother of her children due to cannibalism of Cronus who ate most of them while Zeus and, variously, Poseidon on the other hand had to be hidden away from Cronus.
