(urth) Hera and Sphinx / achilles

Stanislaus sbocian at poczta.fm
Fri Apr 7 09:35:15 PDT 2006


Hello Jeff,

Sunday, April 2, 2006, 11:40:40 PM, you wrote:

> aramini1 at cox.net wrote:

>> Your first argument, about the conventions of naming  someone as a
>> child of the gods, is cogent.  I don't feel that this one, about it
>> being inappropriate for Hercules to tutor a brain damaged Ares,
>> effectively weighs one way or the other about the possibility of
>> Latro being, in some way, divine.

> I'm not sure such frailty is in character for a Greek god. Perhaps it is
>   the damage that makes Latro subject to direct divine manipulation.


Some Titans once imprisoned Ares by cutting out his tendons, so that
he couldn't move and had to be rescued. It always seems to me that
Greeks really disliked Ares, I don't remember them saying one good
thing about him. Romans very much loved Mars, of course.

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Best regards,
 Stanislaus                           mailto:sbocian at poczta.fm


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