Before the birth of Zeus, Cronus sired Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon by Rhea. Zeus' father Cronus attained the rank of king of the gods by usurping his father, Uranus. The Chariot of Zeus, from Stories from the Greek Tragedians by Alfred Church (1879) Birth & Childhood Zeus was the only deity in the Olympic pantheon whose name had such an apparent Indo-European etymology. The similarity between Zeus' Greek title and those for the celestial gods in Sanskrit and Latin provides strong linguistic evidence that the god had a connection to the Proto-Indo-European sky god. Iuppiter, as it were, derived from the Proto-Indo-European dyeu which meant "to shine," and "sky, heaven, god." To the Greeks and Romans, the god of the sky was also the supreme god. Similarly, in Latin, the term Jupiter, which referred to Zeus in the Roman tradition, is derived from Iuppiter. In Sanskrit, Zeus was known by the virtually identical Dyaus or Dyaus Pita ("Sky Father"). Zeus is a continuation of the theonym Dyeus, which referred to the Proto-Indo-European god of the daytime sky. Zeus is arguably the most identifiable character in all the world's mythology his representation in art and sculpture as the well-muscled, white-bearded patriarch has had immense influence upon colloquial understandings of God in the Western world.
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