Before Zeus became king of Olympus, before he swallowed his first wife or seduced his thousandth mortal, he was something else entirely: a frightened child hiding in a cave on Crete, listening to his father devour his siblings one by one in his mind. But fear makes monsters of us all, and when the young god finally raised his stolen lightning against Kronos, he discovered that overthrowing a tyrant is easy. Not becoming one yourself? That’s the hard part. This is the story they don’t tell you in the temples, the one that explains why thunder sounds like regret.
