{"id":577,"date":"2012-02-05T19:11:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T19:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/greek\/?p=577"},"modified":"2014-08-21T18:49:41","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T18:49:41","slug":"the-12-olympians-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/greek\/the-12-olympians-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The 12 Olympians (Part 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Three more Olympians are presented in this pre-last post of the series.<\/p>\n

Ares<\/strong> (\u0386\u03c1\u03b7\u03c2): God of war and lover of Venus. Son of Zeus and Hera. His obsession with war and fight has made him the most disliked god of the mountain. Only Venus and Hades liked him, for obvious reasons\u2026<\/p>\n

His passion, his strength and his tenderness, combined with his beauty, make him irresistible. He is not interested of the outcome of the battle; neither seems to be always the winner. His life is the war itself. He was defeated twice by Athena. Also Hercules has many victories against him. But his biggest defeat was from the sons of Aolea (\u0391\u03c9\u03bb\u03ad\u03b1) who imprisoned him in a jar and if it wasn\u2019t Hermes to release him, he would have been there forever.\u00a0 Ares knows how to win and certainly knows how to lose.<\/p>\n

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Venus<\/strong> (\u0391\u03c6\u03c1\u03bf\u03b4\u03af\u03c4\u03b7): Goddess\u00a0of love\u00a0and passion. She was\u00a0born\u00a0from the genitals\u00a0of Uranus,\u00a0which Cronus cut and threw\u00a0into the sea\u00a0when he\u00a0rebelled\u00a0against his father (Uranus).\u00a0Others say that she\u00a0was born\u00a0from the foam which formed\u00a0in the\u00a0sea when\u00a0Hera,\u00a0furious\u00a0with jealousy,\u00a0cut\u00a0the genitals\u00a0of Zeus and threw them there. Venus\u00a0emerged\u00a0naked\u00a0from the sea\u00a0on a\u00a0shell\u00a0outside\u00a0Kythera(\u039a\u03cd\u03b8\u03b7\u03c1\u03b1). But she found this\u00a0island\u00a0very small for her “majesty”. So, she left\u00a0and settled\u00a0in Cyprus(\u039a\u03cd\u03c0\u03c1\u03bf).\u00a0Pigeons\u00a0and sparrows are her symbols. They\u00a0fly and\u00a0stay with her wherever she is\u00a0located. Zeus forced her\u00a0to\u00a0marry\u00a0the lame\u00a0and ugly Hephaestus, but the real\u00a0father of her children was\u00a0the handsome and masculine\u00a0Ares. In general she made too\u00a0many\u00a0children\u00a0with too\u00a0many men, gods\u00a0and mortals.<\/p>\n

Apollo<\/strong>(\u0391\u03c0\u03cc\u03bb\u03bb\u03c9\u03bd). Most known as the god of light, harmony and music. His youth is characterized by immaturity and he was the trouble maker of the family. He is the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis.<\/p>\n

Hera, being really jealous of Zeus’ affair,was chasing Leto for months during her pregnancy. Fortunately, Poseidon took pity of Leto and gave her a refuge in the island of Delos(\u0394\u03ae\u03bb\u03bf\u03c2), where she gave birth to her twins. Even though Apollo is considered the most beautiful among the gods, he is not that good as a lover. Nonetheless, he has several children with mortal and immortal women; the best known of these is the Asklipios (\u0391\u03c3\u03ba\u03bb\u03b7\u03c0\u03b9\u03cc\u03c2).\u00a0 He is also known as the first god who fascinated people of the same gender!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Three more Olympians are presented in this pre-last post of the series. Ares (\u0386\u03c1\u03b7\u03c2): God of war and lover of Venus. Son of Zeus and Hera. His obsession with war and fight has made him the most disliked god of the mountain. Only Venus and Hades liked him, for obvious reasons\u2026 His passion, his…<\/p>\n

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