Zeus is still watching the battle from his vantage point on Mount Ida
You are ZEUS. Seeing your wife wafting down from Heaven in all her beauty, you are mad with desire "as in the days when you first enjoyed each other's love and went to bed together without your parents' knowledge." You swallow Hera's lies, and tell her you've never wanted any woman more; not even Ixion's wife, Dia     Danaë, mother of Perseus     Europa, mother of Minos     Semele, mother of Dionysus     Alcmene, mother of Heracles     Demeter, mother of Persephone     Leto, mother of Apollo and Artemis     ... none of them were as hot as Hera at this moment. She wants to take you home to bed, but you can't wait. "I shall hide us in a golden cloud too thick for anyone else to see us."

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