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PoseidonEpicness45 wrote: I think it is because his pride. He may not be stupid, but rather too proud to admit anything. He wanted to believe that the Titans and Gaea were not a threat to a point where he did believe it.

But why did Riordan write him as so prideful is what I am wondering? Other versions of Zeus are shown to be full of themselves, but not to such an extent where they deny reality when it is staring them in the face.