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finelythreadedsky · 2 years ago

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obsessed with the idea that the phaeacians are the only ones who consider hephaestus the husband of aphrodite. it isn't even in the main narrative voice of the odyssey, it's just within demodocus' story. in the iliad hephaestus' wife is charis and i so want to say that in the odyssey hephaestus is actually still married to charis and it's only the phaeacians who think he's married to aphrodite and they're wrong.

#this passage of the odyssey is the only early greek source that pairs aphrodite and hephaestus #there are actual potential historical and comparative religion/syncretism related explanations but i operate on the narrative level #no idea why this somehow got picked up as the 'canonical' coupling in the modern imagination #wikipedia refers to hephaestus and aphrodite as 'divorced' btw #mine #odysseyblogging

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