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Theseus ruins the entire timeline of Greek mythology

He really does like don’t even get me started.

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I imagine Hephaestus attempting to assault Zeus’ favourite child probably didn’t help their relationship much

Maybe, but Zeus did try to marry off Athena to Hephaestus in some sources (and in a scholia I can’t find rn it was the reason why Athena joined Hera’s coup) so idk if he cares THAT much considering he himself doesn’t know the first thing about consent.

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What is your headcanon or interpretation of Zeus and Hephaestus relationship? Do you think Zeus hates Hephaestus? (but not like the same level of his hate with Ares). Or maybe they just tolerate each other bec Zeus needs Hephaestus talent?

They tolerate each other, Hephaestus doesn’t see the point in being hostile to Zeus (last time that happened he was thrown off a mountain), and Zeus considers Hephaestus useful so he keeps him around. Zeus didn’t like how Hephaestus divorced Aphrodite since he was the one to set them up together and he thinks they’re being ungrateful. Hephaestus is the most like Hera (sometimes she’s considered his only parent so i imagine he’s kinda a clone of her) and bc of that Zeus goes back and forth from liking him to hating him.

Hephaestus never fully got over being thrown off Olympus for defending Hera, so Zeus set him up with Aphrodite to make peace, but as we can see it didn’t work.

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I find it interesting how in the aftermath of the sacking of Troy, Athena at least in many versions shows some level of regret and punishes the Achaeans for their actions, while Hera still appeared remorseless and in the Roman versions continued to persecute Aeneas and the other Trojan survivors while Athena left them alone.

Yeah it’s pretty interesting

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which myth that made you angry at Hera

Alcmene and Callisto they did not deserve that shit, also helping the Achaeans sack Troy. Io too I guess but that myth was kinda funny with how she turned into a cow so it cancels it out.

In fact that’s how I feel about a lot of her myths, if I find humor in them I can’t be too upset.

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Can we talk about how Apemosyne,a literally mortal, outran a god? And not just any god but Hermes who’s known to be really fast. Like ppl only talk about this myth to talk about how shitty Hermes can be but we seem to brush off the fact that Apemosyne outran him???

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Honestly we need more villain Hermes. Zeus and Apollo have at least a handful of adaptations where they're the bad guys but Hermes? None. For all the shit he does, it's surprising no one has made him a villain or even antagonist.

Omg YES. I think the reason a lot of ppl don’t think of Hermes as a villain is bc he’s often relegated to the comic relief or an exposition machine. Closest I think was in Circe by Madeline Miller, he’s charismatic (and not really an antagonist) but still very much a pervert like in mythology.

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Zeus: "my two favorite kids, my wife and my brother are all meeting up, and they never get along normally! I bet they're talking about how much they love me"

Hera: "and so begins the first Meeting of the "let's Kill Zeus Alliance" the agenda for today: killing Zeus"

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On either side [sc. of the door] there were golden and silver dogs, immortal and unaging forever, which Hephaestus had fashioned with cunning skill to protect the home of Alcinous the great-hearted. (Od. 7.91-94)

Eustathius goes on to suggest that the adjectives 'undying' and 'un-aging' refer not literally to biological life, but rather to the durability of the rust-proof metals from which they were fashioned, and that the dogs were alleged to be the work of Hephaestus solely on account of their excellent workmanship. He does, however, imply that he knows of other testimonia to these hounds when he refers to a certain "silly story" that they were a present from Hera to Poseidon for his help in some attack against Zeus in the Iliad (probably that described at 1.396-406), and that Poseidon gave them in turn to Alcinous. - Hephaestus the Magician and Near Eastern Parallels for Alcinous' Watchdogs by Christopher A. Faraone

Love the idea that after their failed coup against Zeus, Hera is just like: "Oh well, we'll get 'em next time, here are some dope magical robot dogs my son made, just a little something to express my appreciation for helping me try and upturn the order of the cosmos, thanks bro!"

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Me: I usually take a ton of creative liberties when designing Greek mythology figures but I still wanna look into any physical descriptions of Aglaia to integrate into my design

Hesiod: she had big boobs

Me:

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Hades: y’know I had a wife before you

Persephone: Oh yeah?

Hades: Yeah but they got her

Persephone: What does that mean?

Hades: I liked her too

Persephone: What do you mean they got her?

Hades: Made the White Poplar in her honor, she was a good woman

Persephone: … fuck this Hades

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Girl, same. I also don't like the myth about adonis. Depending the version you prefer he is either killed by Apollo, Ares and Artemis. I like to think the three of them team up to kill adonis. Aside from Aphrodite blinding his son Erymanthus, Apollo also care about his muses (Clio and Calliope). As for Ares, while I like to think he doesn't mind aphrodite having other lovers, he is getting tired hearing of her drama about adonis. Artemis want revenge on aphrodite for killing her devoted follower Hippolytus (from what I searched he is the child of either hippolyta or antiope - the amazon daughters of ares. So he is ares grandchild) and maybe revenge for Erinoma as well. So they send out a boar to kill adonis.

And good riddance for that. Adonis is nothing but trouble lol

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Athena showing up as the big sis getaway car for Perseus is actually amazing

Took me a sec to realize what you are talking about but yeah lol

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What? theres a story where aphrodite helps adonis rape a girl?! I didn't know that

Yup… I hate everything surrounding Adonis’s myth.

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It’s actually really odd how Poseidon took no issue with Perseus killing Medusa and Cetus, like I’m 70% sure there was probably a myth out there about him taking revenge but it didn’t survive to the modern day bc of this pottery art:

It shows Poseidon rushing toward Medusa’s corpse with one of her sisters running towards him like “some invisible guy killed her go stop him!” And it looks like Athena is urging Perseus to run faster (hence why there is two of Perseus) and it got me thinking, is this why Perseus has the Invisibility helmet? It seems odd for him to have it considering that he killed Medusa while she slept, was it to avoid Poseidon’s wrath? Since Poseidon only started attacking Odysseus when his son Polyphemus told him his name?

So if all it takes to avoid Poseidon is to keep your identity secret, then how come he didn’t catch on when this random kid showed up out of nowhere, rescued Andromeda and killed Cetus with Medusa’s head? Idk maybe there’s something I’m missing.

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Omg thank you but I need to inform you that I literally stole it from this video game called Gris.

And I stole it with pride lmao

So I’ve only seen one person draw Perseus in the Hades style and I’m disappointed af

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IS THAT THE COLOR PALETTE I USED FOR MY PERSEUS???

So I’ve only seen one person draw Perseus in the Hades style and I’m disappointed af