Zeus lay with Metis but immediately feared the consequences. Metis was both a threat to Zeus and an indispensable aid. Metis was the one who gave Zeus a potion to cause Cronus to vomit out Zeus' siblings.
Metis was the first great spouse of Zeus, Zeus is himself titled Metieta ( Ancient Greek: Μητίετα, lit.'the wise counsellor'), in the Homeric poems.
She was a sister of the Potamoi (river-gods), sons of Oceanus and Tethys, who also numbered three thousand. Metis was an Oceanid, the daughters of Oceanus and his sister Tethys, who were three thousand in number. In the Classical era, metis was regarded by Athenians as one of the notable characteristics of the Athenian character. This quality was considered to be highly admirable, the hero Odysseus being the embodiment of it. The Greek word metis meant a quality that combined wisdom and cunning. The Stoic commentators allegorised Metis as the embodiment of " prudence", "wisdom" or "wise counsel", in which form she was inherited by the Renaissance. By the era of Greek philosophy in the 5th century BC, Metis had become the mother of wisdom and deep thought, but her name originally connoted "magical cunning" and was as easily equated with the trickster powers of Prometheus as with the "royal metis" of Zeus.
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