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just-1-scorpio · 13 days ago

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Strangely enough Hades 2 is not the only game where Aphrodite is lonely, or depressed.

There is a game called Time Princess, where multiple stories can be playd, and on of them is based on the Illiad, called Helen of Sparta.

So Aphrodite apears in the story, and she is all sad and stuff about love, and the absenc of it, and about loneliness in her life, if I remember well.

I don't get why is this so common.

Ok but why have I seen so many retellings where Ares and/or Hephaestus are the only ppl who like/understand Aphrodite? Sure she doesn’t get along with tons of ppl, but she still has tons of lovers, friends and children to hang out with, she’s not exactly an enigma they can’t connect to and she isn’t slut shamed and isolated by the other Olympians at all.

#Then agein Helen of Sparta is pretty bad #And a lot of things don't make sense #And as a bonus it's also unfinished #The main character is Helen and the love instrests are Achilles and Apollo #Where is Menelaus?#And in the story Helen is cursed by Aphrodite if I remember well #Or at least she is prophisised to cause a war #So she hunts the minotaur then she secrifices it to Aphrodite #Because according to Cassandra Aphrodite is the one who can undo her curse #Then the three have to bring her the Golden Apple #Or they have to go to the underworld to get True Love's Blessing from Persephone #And in the end Aphrodite doasn't even lifts the curse #Why?#time princess #greek mythology #ancient greek mythology #Aphrodite #helen of sparta

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