Hera and Sphinx / achilles

Jeff Wilson · 08 Apr 2006, 07:25 · from 2006-April.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 02:25:26 -0500
Subject: (urth) Hera and Sphinx / achilles
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Stanislaus wrote:

> 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.


If you mean Ares could be injured by other exalted beings, that agrees
with the Illiad. But it raises the question, what other exalted being 
was present in the temple to strike the blow against Latro that wounded 
Ares?


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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
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