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Blood of Zeus would have been a decent adaption of greek mythology if they didnt make Demeter a terrible person, make Hades a misunterstood emo bad boy meow meow and make Persephone want to be with Hades

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Demeter is the best mother in all of greek mythology and you cant change my mind because when she found out her daughter was kindapped she wandered and looked everywhere to find Persephone with torches and when she found out it was Hades she stopped the harvest and caused a famine for her daughter.

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So its confirmed that Hades knew about Adonis but never punished his wife🧐

Aphrodite mourned him and was seized by unctrollable grief. Not being able to bear her love, she descends to Hades to seek for her beloved. She besought Pluton to honour her with him, but his wife Persephone hindered this request, being much taken by Adonis. But, Aphrodite persisting in her request, it was settled that between the two of them his company should be divided, and with the one he should be during a year above on earth, but with the other during a year in Hades. (Five unedited Greek Scholia of Ps.-Nonnos, 38)

I guess Plouton was once again moved by love rather than having a problem with his wife owning a dead man. Think of Persephone getting very angry and announcing that she won't help Hades take away any more dead and asks Dionysus or Herakles to take her property back. Just my headcanon.🤣Anyway, we do have a textual record of Plouton's intervening in arbitration of Aphrodite and Persephone from the 6th century.

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Obriomo and Obriomo is Persephone because she was angry with Hermes when he tried to force her in a hunt and so he stopped his attempt (Tzetzes, Ad Lycophronem, 698 - ca. 1100 CE )

Hades the next time Hermes goes to the underworld:

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Zeus: Im so hungry i could eat a—

Poseidon:

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Me going into my final form after hearing about this brainrot fanfiction:

Have you heard of @imcastingspellz, supposedly they are going to make a “feminist” retelling webcomic of Persephone and Minthe because they see Hades as a evil rapist instead of a god that was a part of a whole religion hundreds of years in the past and they are going non stop how saphic and femenist it is going to be. What are your thoughts?

I’m not a fan of this kind of retelling. It simplifies everything to “all men are evil” and forces ships that were never canon to begin with. Hades cheated on Persephone with her, and Persephone, in her jealousy, turned Minthe into a plant. That’s already an interesting, messy dynamic without needing to make Hades into some pure villain.

And then there’s Persephone’s thing with Adonis, she literally fought Aphrodite over him because she had a huge crush on him. These myths are way more complex than just “bad men, good women.” They’re full of jealousy, passion, mistakes, and power struggles, and flattening them into a modern moral lens just makes them less interesting. If you’re going to do a retelling, at least make it well-written and respect the original dynamics.

Again this isn't an attack on the artist but a general observation that people can be better and there's a need to respect the source material.

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Hades talking to Zeus about the Melinoe incident:

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Average discussion between Zeus and Hades:

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Lycaon: Hesiod, Astronomica Fragment 3 (from Comm. Supplem. on Aratus) (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or 7th B.C.) : "After Zeus had seduced Kallisto (Callisto), [her father] Lykaon (Lycaon), pretending not to know of the matter, entertained Zeus, as Hesiod says, and set before him on the table the babe which he had cut up."

Tantalus: "His grandfather": Tantalus, having invited the gods to a feast, sacrificed his son Pelops, so that they might eat, showing his hospitality (Tzetzes, Ad Lycophronem, 152 - ca. 1100 CE )

Zeus when he finds out that he was served a human being as food a second time thanks to Tantalus:

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I dont know if you all know this but in the stories from styx animatic section of the song titanomachy it is shown that the cronides do all the work in fighting Kronus while Zeus deals the final blow and my reaction to this is just pure incoprehensible hate because it is said that Zeus fought Kronus alone in olympia…

Pausanias, Description of Greece 5. 7. 10 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) : "Now some say that Zeus wrestled here [at Olympia, Elis] with Kronos (Cronus) himself for the throne, while others say that he held the games in honour of his victory over Kronos. The record of victors include Apollon, who outran Hermes and beat Ares at boxing."

Pausanias, Description of Greece 8. 2. 2 : "The Olympic games . . . are traced back to a time earlier than the human race, the story being that Kronos (Cronus) and Zeus wrestled there, and that the Kouretes were the first to race at Olympia."

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ca. 1 BCE] § 30  GEMINUS: The hand of Thasian Polygnotus made me, and I am that Salmoneus who madly imitated the thunder of Zeus, Zeus who in Hades again destroys me and strikes me with his bolts, hating even my mute presentment (Greek Anthology Book 16 Planudean, 30 - ca. 500 CE )

Zeus will never get over it.

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My live reaction after seeing a musical adaptation of Hades and Persephone that makes the relationship consensual:

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”Persephone chose to be with Hades!”

“Persephone was trying to run away from her mother Demeter!”

“Hades x Persephone is true love!”

What actually happened:

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I get that people started to glaze Hades because it was to subvert the trope that Hades was the devil but now i want to make Hades complex and make him a little sadistic, generous, grim, transparent on his true self, egotistical, a party animal and resort to trickery.

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There are so many things wrong with your statement here but i will make a list

Medusa comes from ovid who is a roman.

Ares CAUSES and INSTAGATES wars with the help of Eris so much so that people only worshipped him for he can not cause a war in there city

He is associated with the sacking of cities and the violation of the slave woman of those sacked cities

Athena avanged Cassandra when she was raped near her statue by Ajax the lesser in her temple by demanding his death and later killing him with a storm

There are only a few points i can come up with right now.

Ares and Athena

It really bothers me how often Ares is treated badly but Athena is blindly hoisted up on a golden pedestal and treated like she's the Goddess who does no wrong "She's a God of war, but she is the SmArT GoD oF wAr So ShE's BeTtEr ThAn ArEs WhO's jUsT a BrUtE" I was watching a playthrough of Hades last night and one of the let's players was crying about how terrible Ares is, but simping for Athena like she could do no wrong.m

Athena is just as bad as the other Olympian but with a superiority complex cause she's the patron of the self proclaimed "Greatest City-State in Greece" Athens. Athens was also horrible to Women and that was reflected in their myths. In one Myth explaining the Athenian Legal system, Queen Clytemnestra's ghosts sics the Furies on her Son for Murdering her, and her son runs to Athena for protection. Athena arranges a proper trial and agrees with Apollo's Argument acting as the defence attorney that "Women don't actually have any rights to their children as a parent. Fathers are exclusively the TRUE Parent." Athena was also responsible for the punishments of Medusa and Arachne. Some people claim that Athena turning Medusa into a Gorgon was actually a cool feminist thing, giving her the power to never be hurt by a man again, but that entire argument falls apart completley when Athena helps aid Perseus in killing Medusa while she was pregnant with Twins! Poseidon Raped Medusa and then got punished for being raped by being turned into a monster by her goddess and hunted. Arachne made the mistake of disrespecting and calling out the gods on their bullshit as a character in Greek mythology, but for sake of argument all of her points are 100% right! She claims her skill in weaving is better than Athena and in a Weaving Contest with the Goddess of Weaving herself the two are pretty evenly matched, and in her weaving she depicts various moments in mythology where Zeus and Poseidon like the animals they are, constantly rape women in the form of Animals! I think this paints a clear picture that in a lot of depictions of Athena, she disproportionately punishes Women and sees herself as above them. Meanwhile even in Greek mythology Ares gets shat on constantly. Zeus doesn't particularly like Ares, nobody cared that much the time he got kidnapped by a pair of Giants and stuffed in a jar, and in the Trojan War he gets humiliated. The guy can't catch a break, and to an extent it makes sense, people don't like War. Ares embodies War and all of the terrible things that come from it, but if humans want to have a war, you gotta accept that Ares will be there, War is his Job and there Will be loses and death. Ares is not perfect, but he's not pretending to be perfect. He is what he is. In contrast with Athena, Ares had respect for Women. He had multiple lovers like most Greek gods including his affair with Aphrodite behind his Brother's back, but as the Goddess of Love, Aphrodite was the one who was entirely in control in their relationship. Ares is also the Father and Patron of the Amazons, who loves his Badass Warrior Daughters. In one myth Ares killed a demigod son of Poseidon for trying to rape one of his daughter and was put on trial for Murder. Zeus was all in favor for punishing Ares but several of the Goddesses came to Ares' defense and he was ultimately acquitted

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How modern media see’s Hades:

How i see Hades:

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Medusa stans, come at my comment section so i can block you and your brainrot. I AM READY!