Say Anything About Greek Myths

Yeah. O.K. Ummm, this is like a sort of say-anything post about Greek mythology. like what you like, fave. gods/goddesses, fave. myths, etc. I'm interested in hearing what others gotta say.

"Fortuna audaces javat"--so, how do you pronounce it, all you Latin scholars?, :-)

No it's not. The Aeneid was written by Virgil in the 1st century BC, in, you guessed it, LATIN.

only the god half of him went to mount olympus, part of heracles still went to the underworld

Well my favorite myth is that about Hercules, but in Greek mythology he is really know as Heracles. I have never actually understood this, the name of his stepmother is in there. She hated him, so much she did everything in her power to kill him. She eventually forgave him though. And when he died and went to Mt. Olympus she let him marry his half-sister, Hebe.

Well, the stepmother in question was HERA, Queen of the gods and wife to Zeus, Herc's "biological" father. Zeus had a bad habit of catting around, just because he could, and his catting with Alcmene, the MARRIED mortal queen of Tiryns with her husband Amphitryon, produced the hero. Zeus took on Amphitryon's likeness in order to sleep with Alcmene, even stopping the sun in its course for three days to take advantage of the real Amphitryon's absence.

And in her prototypical jealous wife/sister/goddess mode, Hera blamed, not Zeus, not even Alcmene, but the innocent offspring of Zeus' lust, Hercules. She started with sending two serpents to kill the infant Herc as he lay in his cradle with his mortal brother Iphicles - but while Iphicles lay there and screamed in fear, Herc, chuckling, reached up and strangled the serpents with his baby hands. Tough dude to kill.

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Can I just say I hate The Odyssey? I really really do.

Faves

Gods: Hypnos, Hades,
Goddesses: Artemis, Hecate, Persephone
Demigod: Hermes,
City: Thebes
Mortal: Ariadne
Muse: Urania, Melpomene
Others: Medusa, Pandora

My Favorite goddess was Hera, the goddess of marriage, and Athene (Athena), Warrior Goddess of Wisdom and Crafts.

My favorite gods are Ares, god of war, and Apollo, God of Healing, Prophecy, medicine, music, the sun...

My favorite myths deal with Hera, and (or) Athene, also myths about the gods and their troubles.
But i love to read all the myths, though there aren't many movies that deal with them :(

But I must admit I liked the Iliad (book) better than The Odyssey (book).
They should make a movie of it, that stays true to the Greek myths.