Then came the rebellion of the giants. After their defeat Jupiter, "now freed from every apprehension, gave himself up to the pursuit of pleasure. He married Metis, Themis, Eurynome, Ceres, Mnemosyne, Latona, and Juno (vid. Juno)".

Zygia, a surname of Juno, because she presided over marriage. She is the same as the Pronuba of the Latins.

By her marriage to Jupiter, Juno became the queen of all the gods, and mistress of heaven and earth. Her conjugal happiness, however, was frequently disturbed by the numerous amours of her husband, and she showed herself jealous and inexorable in the highest degree. Her severity to the mistresses and illegitimate children of Jupiter was unparalelled.

Danae was confined in a brazen tower by her father, who had been infromed by an oracle that his daughter's son would put him to death. His endeavours to prevent Danae from becoming a mother proved, however, fruitless; and Jupiter, who was enamoured of her, introduced himself to her bed by changing himself into a golden shower.

Docimus, a man of Tarentum, deprived of his military dignity by Philip, son of Amyntus, for indulging himself with hot baths.