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. She helped him to free his siblings from their father Cronus' stomach by giving him an emetic and, when she was swallowed by Zeus after it was foretold that she would bear a son mightier than his father, helped their daughter Athena to escape from his forehead.īy the era of Greek philosophy in the 5th century BC, Metis had become the first deity 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. She is notable for being the first wife and advisor of Zeus, the King of the Gods.

Metis ( / ˈ m iː t ɪ s/ Ancient Greek: Μῆτις, romanized: Mêtis, lit.'wisdom', 'skill', or 'craft'), in ancient Greek religion and mythology, was one of the Oceanids. A winged goddess depicted under Zeus' throne, possibly Metis.

Zeus wife is his sister