Cool infographic on Greek Gods

Aug 15, 2016 11:31 PM

nanotinker

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FP edit:

so i noticed that i was missing some, so i posted 
http://imgur.com/gallery/lqSPY

Also the source is @ http://olympiansrule.com

I like that Aphrodite has no subtitle. You already know what she's about, son. Sea foam and semen.

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@SerAs2017

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Missing Poseidon, Dionysus, Hestia, and Hera. And some minors like Pan and Nike

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Thursday was named after Thor, the Norse god of thunder. It was not named after Zeus... Also ?1

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Look at the French names of the days for hints :)

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Any Percy Jackson/Heroes Of Olympus fans in here???

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TIL strawberries grow on trees

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

This makes me want to read Percy Jackson again.

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Where's Poseidon?

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ty

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Part 2

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That's a pretty low key Hephaestus. In mythology he was literally thrown off a mountain by his mother and permanently disfigured

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Hestia....AKA "Loli Big Boobs"

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I expected more beard.

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By the beard of Ze--wait, where is Zeus' beard?

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

oh my god..s. I love stuff like this

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Why do the guys have on clothes? How ancient Greek can they be?

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I thought rosemary and pomegranates were also sacred plants of Aphrodite?

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Font color/size/contrast meh. Gave up trying to read these, and I love these posts.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Did sombody say HEAVENLY BODY!?

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What about Hera queen of the gods?

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Talos? o w8 hes not a divine you heretics

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Skyrim belongs to the Nords!

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Don't you see!? Elven supremacy is the ONLY TRUTH!

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Ares was in Roman armor, and Hephaestus was crippled and lame.

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Mars was the second most important God for the Romans after Jupiter, the Greeks disliked him, they preferred Athena over him.

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Hephaestus was crippled because his parents threw his fugly ass into the sea when he was born, if I remember correctly

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Lameness and smithing predate Hephaestus by quite a bit; as well as lameness and kingship for whatever reason.

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I like that Aphrodite has no subtitle. You already know what she's about, son. Sea foam and semen

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Aphrodite's day of the week is Wednesday.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

what day is it?!?

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athena is the god of nerds

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She's also the goddess of winning. Something me and Charlie Sheen can both appreciate

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"Tiger blood and Adonis DNA."

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Thats Nike, the goddesss of victory.

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"What if we promoted, like, Adidas shoes?"

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@h95herman

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Not all of these are gods

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Any Percy Jackson fans?

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

yo

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Yes. though a lot of info on this post is wrong, which irks me. (classics and ancient history major)

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Here

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Ay

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What? Where is the best god, Poseidon?!

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Mars > All

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Disappointed my boy dionysus didn't get one

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Party boy

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Or Poseidon

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Both are in the sequel.

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or Hestia

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These are from a comic/graphic novel series. They're probably out there.

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Or kratos

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The god of drunken lunatics?

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Or Prometheus

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Mr. D is currently to busy at camp half blood to make an appearance

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No one saw that Apollo was "God of young men"....were just gunna ignore that?

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That had... Ah... Different morals back then.

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It's exactly what you think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyacinth_(mythology)

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we'll talk about when you want to talk about it.

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Made it only 2 seconds into this educational post, stopped at the same words and vigorously scrolled down to the comments.

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Apollo is the god of males and male pestilence. Artemis is of females and of female pestilence.

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Oh ya.. Look up intercrural sex.

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Apollo was actually in love with a guy once, but he accidentally killed him when he hit him with a discuss in a contest.

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Also he once fell in love with this one girl but she wasn't in to him. Yet Apollo wouldn't stop bothering her.

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So she prayed to some god to turn into a tree to escape him. She literally turned into a plant to avoid talking to him.

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As a gay man , this intrigued me. Need more info !!!

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He had a bf named Hyacinth, whom he accidentally killed with a discus, so he turned the body into a hyacinth flower

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What am I missing?

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

And Artemis is the goddess of young women. Are you implying something? Am I missing it?

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Artemis is the patron goddess of virgins - "young women" is a bit of a misnomer here.

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Artemis is the PROTECTOR of young virgins.

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To be fair, Artemis didn't exactly lay with men, either, save maybe Orion (and that only from Hyginus). That implication cuts both ways.

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Um Orion had a crush on Artemis and attempted to get at her but Apollo intervenes to protect her.

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In most versions, yes. In Hyginus' Astronomica, he notes that in a tale by Istrus, she loved him and Apollo tricked her out of jealousy.

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What inplication, am I an idiot?

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Apollo liked young boys. Artemis liked young girls. For banging purposes.

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

To be fair, boys in golden armor flying golden chariots of fire across the sky is pretty fucking gay...

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It's not as simple as "The Roman name". The Italic tribes had their own branch of IE-descended myth, it's not a case of transposing names.

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1. rome was originally etruscan. 2. in the early days of rome, you would have a point, but the romans were hevily influenced by both the -

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greeks and the etruscans, who in turn were heavily influenced by the greeks. 3. yes the roman gods are slightly different, but the -

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-influences are so strong its not unfair to make that comparison.

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Roman gods existed apart from Greek gods, and the Etruscan gods do not correlate to Indo-European cosmology outside of the Greek gods the+

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+Etruscans themselves adopted. What you're doing is taking Interpetatio Romana and misunderstanding it to mean Roman and Greek gods were+

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Stop right there. Rome was founded by a union of Italic tribes, the Latini being the most powerful. Others included the Samnitics and the+

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+Sabellians. All of those groups were descendants of the Villanova culture, the proto-Italic branch of the Indo-Europeans. The Etruscans+

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+were definitively non-Indo-European, and were absorbed into the Roman Republic in the 4th century BCE following the Roman-Etruscan Wars.

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then how do you account for rome being located, built, fortified, and designed in the etruscan style? why s rome <12 miles from veii-

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While this is true, their mythos lined up so well with the greeks that they adopted some of theirs.

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No they didn't. The Italic branches had their own gods. You're mistaking Interpretatio Romana for somethinbn it's not. The Romans used it+

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+to help their own citizens understand the gods of other cultures better, not as a method of copying gods into their ranks. Iupiter Optimus+

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+Maximus exists independently from Zeus. Just like Woden exists independently from Mercury, even though Romans equated the two.

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1) Not as simple as THAT, either. The Latin people did have their own pantheon and mythos, and some of their gods had similar... domains as

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2) those the Greeks had - after all, some things (lightning, the sea, etc.) are going to get deified in just about any pantheistic culture.

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7) to the point where some other suitable god just picked up what they did. The gods are still Roman - and were Latin, Etruscan, etc. before

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3) When the early Romans made contact with the Greeks, there was a lot of cultural exchange. The Romans saw that the Greeks had some similar

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6) mythoi). This also bumped certain gods up or down in importance, and even led some to be conflated with others as their importance waned

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5) structuring, and put their own gods in its places (they didn't have an analogue to Apollo - this is why his name is still Apollo in both

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8) this - and they still had their own myths and legends... but they also borrowed a lot from the Greeks, over their centuries together.

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8 comments long is why I chose to oversimplify my response, but you are right.

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4) gods, but were more impressed with the level of organization to their mythology. So, as time went on, they incorporated this 'Olympian'

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Also their mythos lines up because they share a common ancestor in the Proto-Indo-Europeans. Go back far enough and they line up with the+

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+Indus, Iranian, Hittite, Celt, Slav, and Germanic myths as well.

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