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 Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 8:20 pm
Who is your favorite Roman/Greek god or goddess, and why? If yours is a minor one, and not one of the twelve Olympians, that's fine, too.
Discuss!
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Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 8:26 pm
I can't remember them to well, but I liked Athena for some reason. She was the goddess of war, right?
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Hermonie Urameshi Captain
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Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 8:55 pm
Yes, and of wisdom and the loom. She is often called "grey-eyed," better translated as "sea-eyed," and she has the same name in Roman and Greek mythology. Called Pallas Athene/Athena (with spelling differentiations).
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Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 9:55 pm
Whenrever I see charts of the Greek and Roman gods and goddesses, Athena is always said to be the equivelent of Minerva. I had no clue why. And I din't know there was an Athene in Roman mythology.
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Hermonie Urameshi Captain
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 8:30 am
No, you're right, I'm sorry. My memory turns faulty late at night, but I am very dissappointed in myself nonetheless. redface She is Minerva. It's Apollo who has the same name in Greek and Roman mythology.
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:34 pm
The thing is, when I was learning, Minerva wasn't the goddess of war. It was a god of war and I can't remember who it was. I need to learn it all again.
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Hermonie Urameshi Captain
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 7:59 pm
Nah, Zeus was way better. He ******** everything that moved, and then he turned them into animals so Hera wouldn't find out. I mean, how cool is that?
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 3:31 pm
Mmmm...I have trouble choosing a favorite because there are ones I really like, and ones I really don't like. Since the gods are ultimately metaphors and characters that represent things we can conceive of, it all depends on whose writing you're looking at.
It also depends on whether or not you're going with the Greeks or the Romans. Like the Greeks, the people we call Romans were a conglomerate of various tribes living throughout Italy. In fact, the legend is that Romulus invited people outcast from every tribe to come live in his new city. Tnus, you get a melting pot of people with different beliefs and ideas until everyone just adopts everyone else's ideas. By that line of logic, it's not all that surprising that the Romans might look at Greek religion and say, "Wow, that really makes sense. Let's go with what they say."
One of my favorites would probably be Persephone/Proserpina, partially because I just like her name and the images she conjures up. Other favorites would be Hermes/Mercury, the Muses as a collective, and Monos, Greek god of sarcasm wink
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 8:31 pm
I'm fascinated by Hestia/Vesta and wonder why it is she never got a place in the canon of mythology; maybe she did have myths of her own and they were lost to us. Either way, it's all very mysterious, espeically seeing what an important role she played in everyday family life.
I think Athena is an amazingly strong female character in all the myths. Though in some she demonstrates the jealously of the other goddesses, her wisdom, courage, and capability are very attractive to me, when I feel like being a feminist. wink
Persephone's myth always fascinated me as well.
Hecate, the other mysterious one, whom Hesiod is so devoted to, strikes my interest. I like her as an independent goddess and not as an attatchment to Artemis and/or Selene.
Lastly, Dionysus absolutely fascinates me. I can never quite put my head around the gruesomeness and eeriness of the Bacchae.
I guess I like the mysterious gods, the ones who hide in the back of myths, or when they do emerge, keep much to themselves. 3nodding
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Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:31 pm
Mystery gods kick a**^.^ There were cults devoted to the mysteries of Persephone and Demeter. Supposedly, after going through the rites of Persephone, people declared that they no longer feared death. I'm a little afraid to imagine what that might've entailed^^;
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Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:50 pm
I am not really a fan of those gods... i like Ceres a lot ... amd I think Flora.....I could be wrong but of all those olypians i really Like Hera she is much like me .. jealous .... and venegeful ( i know not good) redface and I dont have the cheating husband because i am too young to marry XD
still Hera is awesome
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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:14 pm
i am a fan of hades/pluto, the reson being that i felt for him wheni read the rape of persohone, and the fact that lives in the under world, im always into the death aspect of all mythologies, and hades seems the best one. that and he never cheated on his wife, had many wifes, has any record of children, his name was not sopused to be said, and he has cerberus, adn the judges;minos, radhamanthus, and i forget the last one , i am sorry for my misspellings
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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:51 pm
Priapus.
Best. God. Ever.
I three favorite gods are Athena, Hermes and Artemis.
I never liked Aphrodite and Hestia just seemed...boring. Aphrodite always seemed flighty, stupid and...well, annoying.
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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:08 pm
Amadastor Priapus. Best. God. Ever. I three favorite gods are Athena, Hermes and Artemis. I never liked Aphrodite and Hestia just seemed...boring. Aphrodite always seemed flighty, stupid and...well, annoying.
Hestia I'm sure is boring to you because she is not mentioned in any myths.
But Athena, Hermes, and Artemis are totally fun!
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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:13 pm
Persephone13 Mystery gods kick a**^.^ There were cults devoted to the mysteries of Persephone and Demeter. Supposedly, after going through the rites of Persephone, people declared that they no longer feared death. I'm a little afraid to imagine what that might've entailed^^;
I've heard conjectures they had to do with reenacting the mysteries of descending to the underworld and ascending again. I have no idea what that would mean, though. And what were the mysteries? What secret could they communicate that would be guarded so that they passed out of written knowledge forever?
It could be something as gruesome as sacrifices (especially for Dionysus) or as unconsequential as walking around an alter and reciting promises. confused
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