Aphrodite & Persephone
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I love how Diana doubt about the myth of Persephone and she tells to a Greek goddess! xD
You know... if some WW writer just ever wanted to pluck the version of Eris from Sinbad...
I'd be 100% on board with that...
~I just keep swimming through these threads~
That is some HAIR.. Id hope if we ever get an animated WW that they'd be as creative.
Man, that movie brings back some childhood memories.
To be fair, the Gods in religion is much different than how they are in the plays. Zeus may have been a philanderer, but he is still the God of law, order, and justice. I took this from Britannica, about Aphrodite: Aphrodite was, in fact, widely worshipped as a goddess of the sea and of seafaring; she was also honoured as a goddess of war, especially at Sparta, Thebes, Cyprus, and other places.. I'm not claiming it's fact, but the Greeks had a much more diverse view of their Gods than we do in modern times.
As for Marston, he didn't follow the myths when it came to Aphrodite. She was kinda just the Goddess, with Athena at her side.
Yeah, gods had multiple roles than the more singular focuses they get when they pop up in modern pop-culture depictions.
Aphrodite as War-Goddess is also seen in the Romans when they began encountering Greek culture and equated their own native gods with the Greeks.
Last edited by DABellWrites; 07-31-2021 at 07:10 PM.
I think just reducing the 'Goddess of Love' to a vixen who uses lust to seduce men and into the path of infidelity has it's own problematic ideals.
Marston was ahead of his time when he made his incarnation of Aphrodite a Goddess of all encompassing love; love between a mother and daughter, love between friends, love between family members, sisters, brothers, humanity as a whole and being the literal anti thesis of aggression and war. I still think taking a page out of Greek myths and having two separate Aphrodites is the way to go.