The Demi-God Children of Zeus

Aeacus: son of Zeus and Aegina who was the daughter of a river god. He was the father of Telamon and
Peleus and grandfather of Ajax and Achilles

Amphion: son of Zeus and Antiope, and twin brother of Zethus

Arcas: son of Zeus and Callisto, a nymph and minor goddess associated with Aphrodite

Dardanus: son of Zeus and Electra, daughter of Atlas

Dionysus: son of Zeus and Semele, a mortal. Later on he became a god, part of the Olympians when
Hestia gave up her seat for him

Epaphus: son of Zeus and Io, a priestess of the goddess Hera (Zeus' wife)

Heracles: son of Zeus (king of the gods) and Alcmene, a mortal woman

Helen of Sparta, also known as Helen of Troy: According to older sources, daughter of king Tyndareus
and Leda, but Homer also calls her daughter of Zeus and Leda. Wife of Menelaus, the king of Sparta.

Iasion: son of Zeus and Electra (one of the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione). He was the brother of
Dardanus

Minos: son of Zeus and Europa, and king of Crete. He commissioned Daedalus to build him the
Labyrinth, where he hid the Minotaur, a bull-man creature born from the union of his wife Pasiphae and
a bull.

Perseus: son of Zeus and mortal princess Danae, whom he impregnated as a golden shower

Tantalus: son of Zeus and the nymph Plouto, a Lydian king, father of Pelops and Niobe.

Tityos: a giant, son of Zeus and Elara

Zethus: son of Zeus and Antiope, twin brother of Amphion, co-founder of Thebes