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Apollo, Artemis, Zeus, and Hera

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PALAZZO DI CNOSSO: Il palazzo di Cnosso si trova a Creta e, realizzato con blocchi di pietra calcarea, risale al 2000-1450 a.C. ed è stato ritrovato da Arthur Evans. Al massimo splendore raggiunse addirittura i 20000 metri quadrati di ampiezza. All'interno c'era un cortile, la sala del trono, la sala della Regina e i magazzini. La presenza di questi ultimi testimonia la grande importanza del commercio per la civiltà minoica, infatti, essendo Creta una terra povera di materie prime e di terreni coltivabili, la loro fonte di guadagno e di materie era il commercio, per questo avevano bisogno di grandi spazi di conservazione.

CURIOSITA': La piantina del palazzo di Cnosso è contorta e non rispetta alcun principio di simmetria, a differenza di quelli mesopotamici, per questo è soggetto del mito del labirinto del minotauro.

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Zeus learning that his dear son (the most disobedient rule-breaking boy he’s ever raised in his life) was going to be The God Of War years after he finished a war with his own father probably send him to anaphylactic shock

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i dont lose interest in favorite characters they just get added to my extra inventory slots

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so if zeus's affairs weren't simply to have divine offspring, how is it that he still has the epithet of the perfect marriage with hera? why would he cheat on her so often if he loved her so much and knew it made her so upset and directly went against her domain as the goddess of marriage?

I love this question, Anon; it has so many layers. 

To begin, what does cheating mean? It means violating the expectations of exclusivity in a romantic or sexual partnership, and the expectations of exclusivity in marriage looked a lot different in ancient Greece than they do now.

The ancient Greeks were monogamous, but only wives were expected to be sexually faithful to ensure their children were legitimate because inheritance was patrilineal. For a husband, marriage was more a relationship between himself and his father-in-law than between himself and his wife, and his sexual/romantic pursuits outside of marriage were largely inconsequential to maintaining that relationship. Wives didn’t necessarily have to enjoy this arrangement; some would certainly retaliate, sometimes with beguilement or magic, but they couldn’t demand their husbands’ sexual fidelity.

Like most ancient Greek social institutions, the gods have their own subverted version of it.

Zeus’s marriage to Hera is entirely a relationship between him and his wife because he has no father-in-law to speak of. Hera and Zeus are siblings, so there is no joining of two households; it is a single household consolidating itself.

The fact that her husband is her brother gives Hera more agency than the mortal ancient Greek wife because she is never unsettled from her family home to her husband’s. She stays in the same household with the same prestige allotted to her at birth by being Kronos’s daughter during his rule, and that prestige is doubled by being Zeus’s wife when he reigns as king. Hera’s elevated status and near-equality with Zeus is one of the reasons why they are surnamed Teleia/Teleios (Hera and Zeus, who are made perfect in marriage to one another).

All in all, I’m not sure I agree that Zeus’s extramarital relationships go against Hera’s domain as the goddess of marriage. That would only be the case if he acted in a way that threatened the stability of the Olympian household, which Hera’s fidelity works to counterbalance. The reality is that, within the paradigm of the ancient Greek family, Zeus loving Hera and having sexual/romantic relationships outside of their marriage aren’t contradictory. It is par for the course, like Hera’s faithfulness to him.

His children by other goddesses and women may immediately have the prestige of being children of Zeus, but not to the extent that they threaten his kingship. Hera can produce children parthenogenetically, allowing them matrilineal prestige (and the likelihood of being adopted by Zeus). But if she were to have children with another god or man, they would be addressed as the children of their fathers, thus making them illegitimate. Likewise, if Hera had children outside of her marriage, her existing children by Zeus could be suspected of being bastards, which would strip them of all legitimacy, thereby crumbling the Olympian house.

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do you ever just sit and realize how insane people have acted towards you

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So uh the big three

First post so I’ll show the designs me and @lseasnaill made for Hades, Poseidon and Zeus :)

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i say this, from the bottom of my heart as a girlie who loves pj/o for what it meant to me as a kid - but we have got to stop pretending rick did any of the gods justice with his portrayal's omg

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what programs do y'all use for writing that aren't google docs? i've been wanting to switch away for a while now but i'm intimidated by all the choices lmao

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I think demeter should be allowed to lay the curse of erysicthon on 90% of hades and persephone writers for her portrayal.

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went to a used book store while i was visiting my sister and picked up a copy of aeschylus' oresteian trilogy for something to read on my flights home, and i am eating up every little bit of this (i've only read the lengthy introduction and a bit of agamemnon so far, but i'm slowly working my way through)

but i was so !!!!! drawn to a passage in this translation:

zeus, whose will has marked for man the sole way where wisdom lies; ordered one eternal plan: man must suffer to be wise.

i'm sure this is nothing new to most of my fellow enjoyers of myth, but it's given me so many thoughts about zeus (and how he's perceived) - and i'm really intrigued to see this concept play out through the rest of my read. i'll maybe give more detailed thoughts on this eventually but! i just wanted to share this bit that tickled me

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Digging through my gallery because I stock up on drawings like a squirrel

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top five most important things you can give a character. 1. bisexuality. 2. autism. 3. so much negative rizz it loops around into irresistibility. 4. so many bad events. 5. a coping mechanism that’s cute and silly provided you don’t think about it too hard

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Zeus being a good father for ONCE

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out of curiosity, does everyone have a certain type of character they get attached to or are urs random

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6: Siblings

Rheia succumbed to Kronos's love and bore him illustrious children, Hestia and Demeter and Hera, who walks in golden sandals, imperious Hades, whose heart knows no mercy in his subterranean dwelling, and the rumbling Earthshaker, and Zeus the counselor and father of gods and men, Zeus under whose thunder the wide earth quivers.

Hesiod, Theogony, translated by Apostolos N. Athanassakis.