Hera And Zeus Research Paper

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Zeus didn’t have a such a good temper so if you irritated him once you may as will be dead. When Zeus found out that Prometheus gave humanity fire he chained him to a rock and had an eagle feasting on Prometheus’ liver every day for eternity. The result for being nice human. Zeus fathered a ridiculous amount of children he was so aggressive that if he wanted a relationship with you there was nothing you could do to stop it. In ancient Greece there was a 30% chance that Zeus was a father of yours. If he decided that he didn’t like you, he’d punish you in worst way possible. Why would you ever want a leader that wanted a relationship with most of the females he saw?

Hera wasn’t any better than Zeus she turned a woman into a tortoise for refusing to go to her wedding. You can imagine what she did to those women and children of Zeus.
Hera couldn’t do any to Zeus so …show more content…

Athena was usually the most sensible and wise of all the gods, but when it comes to her anger she’s totally nuts. She’s the reason why Medusa had snake hair, when Poseidon raped the beautiful priestess Medusa in one of Athena’s temples. When Athena found out she didn’t take it out on Poseidon but turned Medusa into a monster with snakes for hair and helped Perseus kill her. Athena was one of the goddesses who assisted to start the Trojan war, because she was infuriated when Paris awarded Aphrodite first prize in an goddess beauty contest. Not only that, when she heard about a woman named Arachne, who she took the courage to say that she was better at weaving than the goddess herself, she challenged the mortal and lost. With the last few examples you can predict that things didn’t go well for Arachne, indeed it didn’t, she first destroys Arachne’s work and sent Arachne into a depression which cause Archanne to eventually she hanged herself. Athena obviously didn’t think that was a bad enough punishment and decides to bring her back to