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Wasn't Hades's kidnapping of Persephone some kind of marriage ceremony at the time? Also, I distinctly remember Persephone actually being in love with her gloomy husband, though considering the variance in retellings this isn't really saying much. But yeah, on the whole Hades was a lot nicer than most of the Greek pantheon.
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TheCog posted:I mean there's the bit in the odessy where he locks a few score men in his ballroom and almost singlehandedly slaughters them if memory serves. Although I think they were unarmed? To be fair those were a bunch of noble slobs looking to stick their dicks in his wife, not battle-hardened Trojans, and IIRC Odysseus was getting help from his son.
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Jan 19, 2017 08:41
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Wasn't there some special trick to the bow stringing (suitors hate it)? I seem to remember something along those lines.
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Jan 20, 2017 00:31
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I never even noticed any clicking 
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Feb 27, 2017 17:15
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Melth posted:I dunno. Zeus is a horrible husband, but Hera is just a horrible person in every way to everyone all the time. And I can't think of a single redeeming feature she has, whereas Zeus does show that when the chips are down he actually has the guts to face giant monsters like Typhon while all the other gods chicken out and run away. Or punish various wrongdoers and so forth. To be fair, that's just because the Greeks were horrible misogynists- hell, wasn't Medusa punished for the crime of being pretty enough to rape? I'm sure that if there were any myths that portrayed Hera in a good light, the vast majority of them would've been stamped out.
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Jun 29, 2017 08:27
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What about the Egyptian pantheon? From my limited knowledge, only Set was an rear end in a top hat.
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Jun 30, 2017 13:03
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Melth posted:Which just goes to show he really is both the nicest and the most reasonable god. He really is, on both counts. Seriously read the myth of Orpheus- despite all the tragedy and angst of the whole situation, it's clear that Hades is both deeply in love with his wife, and doing his best to help a dude with a bad situation.
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The one I heard has Hades not wanting to let Eurydice out at all, because what kind of God of the Underworld would he be if people could just walk in or out. However, Persephone wasn't having any of that, and asked Hades to consider what if he was in Orpheus's position, and Persephone was in Eurydice's, which was when Hades had a change of heart, and gave Orpheus the simplest trial he could think of, and that he could legally give. Unfortunately Orpheus was too suspicious at how simple the trial was, and too horny to not want to see Eurydice's tits, so of course he looks behind, fails the test, and has to wait until he dies before he can be reunited once more. With all that being said though, Greek myth is a mess, and it's quite possible all the versions of the myth being discussed here were told somewhere and somewhen in the Hellenic area.
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