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    Gender Roles In The Iliad

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    fight it with jealousy and rage. She is also seen this way because of how this story began in the first place, with Paris choosing Aphrodite’s gift over herself and Athena’s, which caused her to be very hostile towards Aphrodite and the Trojan side because they both (Paris and Aphrodite) were cheering for them. This all lead up to the goddess being extremely vengeful towards all of Zeus’ lovers and children that were not hers, all the stress that Zeus puts on Hera by cheating gives her this…

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    trust and betrayed it while still maintaining his reputation. He is perceived as manipulative and deceiving. Iago might be used in literature to refer to a scheming villain who is still seen as honest and as someone who can be trusted. 6) Aphrodite- Aphrodite was the Goddess of Love, Desire, and Beauty. She had a magical girdle that compelled everyone desire to her. She represented the things that bind people together. She still does that by representing beauty, passion, and love in literature…

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    inventions and automatons to work for him. hephaestus's ugly appearance was the reason zeus chose him to marry aphrodite, but despite this she had many affairs with both gods and men. hepaestus was known as the god of fire. according to most myths, the reason hephaestus and aphrodite were married is because hephaestus asked zeus for her as a reward for reconciling his parents. aphrodite didn't refuse. some people think this marriage is appropriate because it is a union of inner and outer…

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    He was cast away from Olympus by Zeus and has to live inside a mountain by himself with his creations. He is married to Aphrodite, but knows she is seeing other people. He is makes all the weapons for Olympus and is looked on as their blacksmith. When a character is said to resemble Hephaestus, he or she is very comely and is not liked by many. However, everyone wants his…

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    Greek God Goddesses

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    The second goddess I’ll be talking about is Aphrodite , she is the goddess of love and beauty , she is older than other olympians , she was born of the sea foam , she is the wife of Hephaestus , it was a myth that she was cheating on him. The third goddess I’ll be talking about she is the Goddess of…

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    Greek God Research Paper

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    the god of warfare and bloodshed. He is the son of Zeus and Hera and the brother of Hephaestus, the god of fire and the forge. Though he was tall and handsome, his violence caused the other gods, even his parents, to hate him. One exception was Aphrodite, the god…

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    Hephaestus: A Short Story

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    It was around eleven-fifteen in the morning. Hephaestus, the god of work and blacksmithing, was fixing a large brass trombone in the band and chorus room. He sat in the far corner at a large wooden desk. He was hard at work that evidently he didn't notice when Peter, the head of a popular group of centaurs, swaggered into the room. After a few moments Peter slammed his left hand on Hephaestus’s table, Hephaestus slowly looked up from his mallet and trombone rolled his eyes and looked back down…

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    Athena, Goddess Of Wisdom

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    Athena, goddess of wisdom, was one of the only three Goddesses who would remain a virgin goddess, never marrying, nor falling to prey to love or the spells of Aphrodite, goddess of love. Romance is never featured in Athena’s mythology, and one could she say she’s the archetypal business woman. Now the way it all started for Athena, the manner in which she was born, was truly amazing. Zeus once laid with the woman Metis. However there was a prophecy that any child born from Metis would surpass…

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    Aphrodite is the goddess of beauty and love, she was very beautiful and lured the heart of many gods. Aphrodite loved Adonis, the god of beauty and desire. He too was very beautiful and captured the attention of many goddesses. Adonis was the mortal son of the goddess Myrrha and Cinyras, but he was adopted by the gods. He loved to hunt and spent as much of his time in the forest as he could. The myth of “Aphrodite and Adonis” or “Venus and Adonis” is the most epic love story of all love…

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    Dionysus In The Bacchae

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    In The Bacchae many of the things said and done by Dionysus are similar to Jesus in The Bible. Proof of this is seen in the human way they live on Earth, the unusual ways they were born and conceived, both gods are called twice born, their want of people to believe that they are gods, their ability to turn people and objects into different items, the fear for their lives they had as infants, the lack of struggle when they are arrested, and finally their persecution. Therefore if Dionysus is like…

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