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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.

Parthenon

 

 

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.

Demeter

 

 

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. 

Heaphaestus

 

 

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).

Cupid

 

 

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.

Ancient Prostitutes

 

 

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.

Zeus

 

 

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.

Apollo and the Muses

 

 

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.

Ares

 

 

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.

Ares (Tv Series)

 


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