Zeus is the father of the Olympian Pantheon, and you might have been talking to a Percy Jackson fan. A pantheon is a collection of gods belonging to a particular mythology. In the Greek pantheon, Zeus was the head honcho, and lived with his fellow gods and goddesses (and assorted demi-gods) on Mt. Olympus, which is not really atop the Empire State Building.
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