THINGS ABOUT THE GREEK GODS
Added on: 23rd Nov 2015
ATHENA SERVED AS A GUARDIAN OF ATHENS,
WHERE THE FAMOUS PARTHENON SERVED AS HER
TEMPLE. THE GREEK CAPITAL IS NAMED AFTER HER.
DESPITE DEMETER BEING THE GODDESS OF THE HARVEST
AND THE FERTILITY OF THE EARTH SHE ONLY HAD ONE
DAUGHTER, PERSEPHONE. AFTER HADES ABDUCTED
PERSEPHONE, DEMETER GRIEVED AND SUBJECTED THE
WORLD TO FAMINE. ZEUS FINALLY INTERVENED SO
DEMETER AND PERSEPHONE COULD BE REUNITED.
DEMETER WAS GRANTED FOUR MONTHS EACH YEAR WITH
HER DAUGHTER, WHO WOULD REMAIN WITH HADES
FOR THE OTHER EIGHT.
ACCORDING TO SOME VERSIONS OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY
HEPHAESTUS, AKA THE GOD OF FIRE, WAS THE SON OF
HERA ALONE, WHO CONCEIVED HIM IN ORDER TO GET
BACK AT ZEUS FOR BRINGING FORTH ATHENA FROM HIS HEAD.
AS A RESULT OF HERA’S DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO GET BACK
AT ZEUS, HEPHAESTUS WAS BORN DEFORMED AND WAS
THE ONLY UGLY GOD AMONG THE OLYMPIANS.
AS IF HEPHAESTUS WASN’T UNFORTUNATE ENOUGH
ALREADY, HIS WIFE APHRODITE WAS UNFAITHFUL TO HIM
AND HAD AN AFFAIR WITH ARES. SHE EVEN GAVE BIRTH TO
TWO CHILDREN BY ARES: EROS (CUPID), AND
HARMONIA (HARMONY).
PROSTITUTES CONSIDERED APHRODITE THEIR PATRON.
THIS HAPPENED MAINLY BECAUSE PROSTITUTES IN ANCIENT
GREECE HAD TO BE EXTRAORDINARILY BEAUTIFUL AND
DESIRABLE AND SO THEY BELIEVED THE GODDESS OF
BEAUTY WAS THEIR PROTECTOR. FOR THIS REASON
CORINTH WAS THE CENTRE OF APHRODITE’S WORSHIP
SINCE IT WAS THE CITY WITH THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND
DESIRED PROSTITUTES OF ANTIQUITY KNOWN AS LAIDES.
ZEUS’S HUMBLE SERVANTS WERE NAMED FORCE AND
VIOLENCE. WITH SERVANTS LIKE THESE YOU CAN ONLY
IMAGINE WHAT KIND OF A BEAST THE BOSS WAS.
APOLLO WAS KNOWN FOR HAVING MANY LOVE AFFAIRS
WITH BOTH MORTALS AND GODDESSES, THAT’S WHY YOU
MIGHT OFTEN HEAR SOME MEN WITH A BIG EGO REFER TO
THEMSELVES AS APOLLO. THE REAL APOLLO, HOWEVER,
JUSTIFIED HIS FAME AND NAME BY DATING ALL NINE
MUSES AT ONCE. THE MUSES WERE GORGEOUS GODDESSES
KNOWN FOR THEIR BEAUTY AND INSPIRED ART AND MUSIC.
DESPITE BEING ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS AND POPULAR
GREEK GODS TODAY MAINLY BECAUSE OF HOLLYWOOD
FILMS AND POP CULTURE, ARES WAS NEVER REALLY POPULAR
IN ANCIENT GREECE, WHERE HIS WORSHIP WAS NOT
SUBSTANTIAL OR WIDESPREAD.
AS IF THAT'S NOT BAD ENOUGH, ARES WAS OFTEN
CHARACTERIZED AS A COWARD IN SPITE OF HIS
CONNECTION TO WAR SINCE HE RESPONDED TO EVEN
THE SLIGHTEST INJURY WITH OUTRAGE. ALSO, ACCORDING
TO HOMER, HIS PARENTS, ZEUS AND HERA, HATED HIM
BECAUSE OF HIS CONSTANT BICKERING.
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