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An old drawing of Zeus and Hera, their poses taken from this ancient relief. Even if muscular men aren’t exactly my type, I thought it was kind of fun that the man was half naked while the woman was fully dressed (in contrast to modern depictions of men and women where women more often than men are sexualized). But the reason is of course that all respectable women were depicted fully dressed back then.

When women seduce men in the ancient Greek literature (like when Hera seduces Zeus in the Iliad and Aphrodite seduces Anchises in The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite), they usually don’t do it by dressing less and showing their body. Rather, they dress up. They put on their finest clothes and jewelry and the man becomes totally overwhelmed by their dazzling appearance. 

#zeus x hera #ooooof

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Cow-eyed Hera, golden queen, and thundering Zeus, beloved king

Happy Theogamia <3

#zeus x hera #No stop Im cryiNG

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really getting the urge to write some big six content this morning but ... what?

#MDKDKD HELP HEAD EMPTY ONLY BIG SIX #i have other projects to work on but shhhh i want. Those six goobers

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Heraion of Perachora — sanctuary of Hera Akraia

#hera #i swam here! very cool

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Kid Eileithyia, kid Ares and very concerned Zeus & Hera

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Eileithyia (still little) goddess of childbirth & midwifery: *retelling in great details the most horrible, bloody childbirth she assisted, when Ares was away from home* Ares (still little) god of war: SO COOL!

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Concerned Zeus and pregnant Hera: ...

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Zeus (to still unborn Hebe): Hebe? It's me, Zeus, your father - please, don't be like your siblings! You hear me? BE NORMAL! Hera (to still unborn Hebe): Yes baby, listen to your father!

#ares #eileithyia #hera #zeus #NDKDMDKDKDKDKLSKDKDKS #BE NORMAL

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Ares and his children as requested!

I love love love seeing Ares as a domestic and caring father to his children🥰🥰 God of war that he is, I imagine he would know best how to protect his kids from any kind of harm or danger :)

#ares #ohhh!!!!!!

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PSA: the Greek myths are not real. They are not real documentation of events. If you go into communication with deities only believing that they will be how they are in the mythology you're gonna be really surprised when Zeus shows up to tell you he's proud of you for graduating.

The myths were created to tell stories. You should take what happens in the myths with as much weight as you'd take what happened in Bible stories. These are myths that were never meant to be taken as the truth, written in a language that doesn't exist anymore, after being passed around orally in a language that doesn't exist anymore, in a time where words meant different things. The myths are not a good source for what a god is like or what they have done. Do not treat them like the Pinnacle of truth and do not belittle others for their preferred Greek myths.

#this is v v v important!!!! #psa

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anyone ask for a Zeus design? no just me??

#zeus #love that guy

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thriving on chaos: everybody loves ikea.

The Olympians were the most powerful gang in New Asphodel, until an old rival rose from the ashes to rip the earth from beneath their feet. Taking down their most fearsome adversary yet without their connections and resources would be hard enough -- but with a traitor in their midst, it seems the Olympians truly are seconds from fracturing beyond repair.

Chapter Summary: A rescue mission is imminent.

Trigger warning for brief mentions of suicide in this chapter.

POV: Hermes.

TLDR: Greek myth Heist AU with betrayal, guns, and a whole lot of drama.

#greek mythology #greek gods #zeus #hermes #apollo #artemis #dionysus #renee writes.

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Athena, the goddess of war, wisdom, and crafts.

#athena

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trials of fatherhood, chapter 4: hermes.

Hermes needs to take a break, but sometimes, it takes a push.

here's chapter 4!! I have quite a few more planned though, so stay tuned and enjoy!

#greek mythology #greek gods #hermes #zeus #apollo #ares #athena #artemis

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the violent urge to info dump about my writing, about my characters, about my world, to anyone and everyone even tho no one will get it is actually soul-crushing. It's one of the worst hyperfixations i've ever had in my life. AND i'm trying to juggle exams like DAMN!!

#if im not thinking about zeus lore something is wrong #its so time consuming ughhh

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#me

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Somebody : Hera needs more nuance portrayals

Me: let’s here it

Somebody: first we have to remember Hera never wanted to marry Zeus….

Me :

#ugh me #hera

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trials of fatherhood, chapter 3: artemis.

Artemis receives her father's help after a hunt and learns a few things about him.

tw: animal death and gore

zeus and artemis are interesting and I was excited to write this one!! enjoy :)))

#greek mythology #artemis #zeus #apollo #ares #athena #renee writes.

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A response to the “Athena is a victim blamer and hates women” crowd

The idea that Athena punishes victims of rape is very popular in today’s culture because of how famous Ovid’s retelling of the Medusa myth has gotten. It hurts me that people think that Athena hates assault victims because of 1 (one) story written by a man who hated authority figures and wanted to slander the gods.

Before Ovid’s Metamorphoses (which is part of Roman mythology, not Greek mythology fyi), all of the mythology regarding Medusa said that she was born a monster. She wasn’t a beautiful woman who was assaulted and no one transformed her. She was a sister of Echidna, a monster born from a family of monsters. Ovid’s tale of Medusa is a fictional story that has no basis on greek culture and that he wrote to push a political narrative. If you want to learn how Athena acted in actual greek mythology, here are some stories for you:

- When Ajax The Lesser raped Cassandra at a temple of Athena, Athena punished him and the greeks who failed to chastise him by sending a storm that sank their fleet. Ajax was shipwrecked and drowned, while his people, the (historical) Opuntians, were told by Apollo that to appease the goddess they would have to send maidens to the Trojan land for the next 1000 years, when the maidens arrived there they became priestesses of Athena.

- In Hyginus’ Fabulae, when the princess Nyctimene was found crying in the woods because her own father had raped her, Athena transformed her into her sacred owl and appointed her as her animal companion.

- In Ovid’s Metamorphoses (I’m only using this as a source to show how selective people are), Coroneis, princess of Phokis, was chased down by Poseidon. She cried out to Athena and the goddess transformed her into a crow to save her from the rape.

- For Hera’s sake, Athena IS a victim of attempted rape. In mythology, Hephaestus tried to force himself on her and she fought him off. The myth explicitly says that she felt disgusted by this.

Besides Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 4, in every other myth about Athena and rape she is completely against it, protects the woman in danger and punishes the rapist.

Also, let’s talk about how in ancient times the cult of Athena was a escapeway for women. “The cult of Athena provided women in ancient Greece not only with a purpose outside the home and childbearing but a significant role in the life of the city. In the Athenian culture, which regularly suppressed feminine energy, even while celebrating it through their patron deity, Athena’s cult was an opportunity for women to express themselves, be recognized, and contribute to the religious and cultural life of the city.” (World History Encyclopedia, Joshua J. Mark)

In the Parthenon, a famous temple of Athena, there was a statue of Pandora, the first of womankind, where she was honored. (Pausanias, Description of Greece 1. 24. 5)

It’s worth noting that 99% of the sources that we have about ancient greece were written by aristocratic men, we have little to no idea of how women viewed and worshipped the gods. To sum it up, before y’all call Athena an anti-feminist, a rape enabler, or a victim blamer PLEASE read actual mythology and put some respect on Athena Axiopoenus (the avenger against injustice)’s name <3

#athena #THATS MY GIRL!!!

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CHARACTER TRIVIA GAME !

instructions: describe 10 random headcanons about your muse of choice that will rarely ever have the chance to naturally come up in threads. Go wild, go random, go meta! repost, do not reblog!

1) hades is a film snob. he loves really old films, black and white ones, and will make everyone else around him suffer. but he likes newer things too, and he has a little notebook where he documents his thoughts and opinions on any new film he watches. this guy could be a film critic if he wanted to, but he just does it for fun.

2) hades was the one to defeat iapetus in combat (imo), and the wounds he suffered during the fight were pretty extreme.  he definitely didn’t think he was walking away from that one (but a series of fortunate and unfortunate events gave him the edge he needed). 

3) hades is disgustingly wealthy, not just as the god of gems, but as a really prolific businessman in the mortal realm. he’s old money rich, and has never had to bat an eye at the cost of anything, ever. he definitely has a skewed view of how money works and i won’t deny that. he’s extremely privileged in that way and it often shows. however, he’s also pretty generous with his wealth, and doesn’t hoard it (as best as he can). he donates extensively, because while he is rich, he’s also the god of the dead, and he sees so much pain and suffering enter his realm that could easily be fixed, and so he does what he can without completely upsetting the nature of the world humans created.

4) he and hera are extremely alike. despite how much he tried to be like zeus or poseidon or kratos in his youth, hera was easily the biggest influence on him. they took the twin thing a little too far and just became clones imo. he adores her completely and despite being the older one, looks up to her a lot.

5) i sorta have this headcanon that immortal bodies aren’t very easy to perform surgeries on / particularly the cosmetic kind, because their bodies heal so quickly.  and because hades wasn’t about to spend all his time and energy on consciously shapeshifting his body every day, his journey w/ top surgery was actually a long time coming / also kinda uncomfortable. now that he’s finally been able to achieve it though, he’s so much happier n he looks GREAT

6) the underworld takes a lot of large tolls on the body, and even though hades is its ruler and is better equipped than most, he still feels the affects.  living in a place of pretty constant darkness and no sun means he’s really sensitive to sunlight.  he needs sunglasses or its almost painful, and even his immortal skin will burn to a crisp if he’s out in the sun a second too long without copious amounts of sunscreen.  the underworld is also very cold, so hades does not handle heat well either, and he will become cranky if he gets too warm. he’s literally a vampire idk

7) hades is not a very athletic person.  he’s physically fit and is quite agile and fast, but he’s not the kind of person to just hop in and play a round of basketball or take a ski trip. the only sports he ever watches are the olympics, and that’s only out of nostalgia. if hades is getting physical, its only as a last resort, and its usually in a fight.

8) hades runs the underworld a little less like a kingdom and more like a business.  because his subjects are dead, there’s not really a lot of back and forth they can do, so he has tasks for them (which sometimes just means wander around) and he pays people well to keep them in check.  the various regions of the underworld are more like sectors of his operation, with different people delegated to remain in charge. the maintenance of the underworld is done for the few gods who do reside down there, and not for the dead. his real job is to intervene when those beneath him are unable to do the job on their own, and just making sure things run smoothly.  the product?  a world free of wandering souls and peace among the dead.

9) there are a number of things hades has discovered since getting sober, and all of them are part of what i’m referring to as his metamorphosis. he’s learning just how big his sweet tooth is (and also just how big his appetite is / how much better food is). he’s using his time to have more fun, with his appearance, with his hobbies, and with his family. his sex drive is higher and sex feels better.  he’s more physically fit because he spends more time taking care of his body.  he still has a long way to go, but he’s found a lot of little joys he’d long since lost sight of and its really good for him.

10) hades decided to fight in the gigantomachy of his own accord. i think he shocked a lot of people by showing up at all, but this was what he knew. no matter how estranged he might have become with his family, nor how great a mystery he was to the younger generation, fighting alongside his siblings was all he had known for most of his life and there was no way he was going to sit out another fight.

Tagged by: @seaprofound who enabled me into talking about hades again Tagging: all of you. tag me if you do it!

#renee's headcanons. #hades #love this nerd