 He is the King of the gods and God of Thunder, lightning, sky, and beautiful women who dance (and the Patron of guest friendship (xenia) and oaths too).He appears at the beginning of the Odyssey where he complains that men blame the gods for the results of their own actions.He is persuaded by Athena in book one to send Hermes to prompt Calypso into letting Odysseus leave Ogygia; and in book 12, at Helios' request, he sends a storm to punish Odysseus' men for killing the cattle on his island (they also swore that they would not touch the cows so in addition offended Zeus in his role as keeper of oaths).