Aphrodite Versus Athena
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In Hesiod’s Theogony, female divinities and their positions in the
universe are presented through stories of great length. The effects of the
female powers are abundant and critical. Even moreso, their origin and
characteristics have great connotation reflecting the Olympian kingdom and
its rela ....
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.... son of Gaia and Uranus, despised his father to a vast
degree that “with his right (hand) he swung/the fiendishly long and jagged
sickle, pruning the genitals/of his own father with one swoop and tossing
them” without hesitation in anger(Hesiod, 66). the genitals were throw “
into the restless, white-capped sea/ Where they floated a long time. A
white foam from the god-flesh/Collected around them, and in that foam a
maiden developed/And grew(Hesiod, 66).” This maiden is Aphrodite. T ....
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Page count: 4 (approximately 250 words per page)
