CLASS 310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Actaeon, Cronus, Pediment
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****each deity needed to create something to woo the athenians enough to induce them to earn their patron deity. Sprang up from foam in the sea is accompanied by eros cupid. Eros has a dynamic persona, but his cosmic counterpart has no personality at all temple of prostitution is married to hephaestus, whom she constantly cheats on bc of how ugly he is frequently cheats with ares. Hephaestus craftsman god is so ugly that he was kicked out of olympus by his mother, hera. Helios sun sees all and informs hephaestus of ares & aphrodite"s affair. Hephaestus then builds a trick bed that traps the two in it and all the olympians surround them & laugh. Sister & wife of zeus, mother of hephaestus & ares. Dumb, smelly brute of the olympian gods. Athena goddess of war & wisdom, patron goddess. Associates with the strategic aspects of war, unlike ares who simply enjoys killing, as well as athens.
