The elder Cyclopes — Brontes, Steropes, and Arges — forged the Thunderbolt of Zeus after he freed them from Tartarus. This weapon made Zeus supreme among the gods.
The Greek Thunderbolt of Zeus was identified with the Roman Thunderbolt of Jupiter. Both were forged by the Cyclopes and served as the supreme weapon and symbol of the king of the gods.
The Thunderbolt of Zeus struck Capaneus dead as he scaled the walls of Thebes, the divine weapon punishing his blasphemous boast that no god could stop him.
Zeus destroyed Phaethon with the Thunderbolt of Zeus when the youth lost control of the sun chariot and threatened to burn the earth, striking him from the sky so that his body fell into the river Eridanus.
The Thunderbolt of Zeus was the decisive weapon in the Titanomachy. Zeus hurled bolts that filled the world with flame and shook the foundations of the cosmos, blasting the Titans into Tartarus.
The Trident of Poseidon and the Thunderbolt of Zeus were forged together by the Cyclopes during the Titanomachy, arming the brothers as the supreme weapons of the new Olympian order.
Zeus wielded the Thunderbolt of Zeus against the monstrous Typhon in a cataclysmic battle for control of the cosmos, striking him repeatedly until he buried the defeated creature beneath Mount Etna.
Zeus wields the Thunderbolt of Zeus as his primary weapon and symbol of supreme divine authority, forged for him by the Cyclopes during the Titanomachy.
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