Hera and Sphinx / achilles

Jeff Wilson · 02 Apr 2006, 21:40 · from 2006-April.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 16:40:40 -0500
Subject: (urth) Hera and Sphinx / achilles
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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.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
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