If I was Paris, I would have picked her anytime. That was a lose-lose situation, anyway.
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Nov 17, 2017
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#67
Pulpofeira wrote:
Indeed! But not here.
No, there where you are. It's even more curious.
French, Spanish and Italian all derive the names of their day of the week from the Romans:
Monday from Dies Lunae
Tuesday from Dies Martis
Wednesday from Dies Mercurii
Thursday from Dies Jovis
Friday from Dies Veneris
Saturday from Dies Saturni (an odd exception is that the English name is derived from the Latin, but others are alters to the Sabbath)
Sunday from Dies Solis (an exception in which the English translated from the Latin and the others call it the Lord'd Day instead).
Nov 17, 2017
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#68
kingofshedinjas wrote:
If I were Paris, I would have eaten the apple.
Eating a golden apple seems a task more for Heracles than Paris.
Nov 17, 2017
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#69
Those crazy gabachos did a really good job at altering "Sabbath" and "Dominicus" to get "samedi" and "dimanche", respectively.
Nov 17, 2017
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#70
Pulpofeira wrote:
If I was Paris, I would have picked her anytime. That was a lose-lose situation, anyway.
I was reading that Hera was actually considered the most beautiful of the three, but her beauty was viewed a domestic and chaste. Hera was faithful to Zeus and the goddess of marriage. But Aphrodite, while extremely beautiful, of course, exuded sexuality, so her beauty, while less that that of Hera, was more appealing to Paris. Athena, apparently didn't stand a chance against such opposition.
Nov 17, 2017
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#71
kingofshedinjas wrote:
Those crazy gabachos did a really good job at altering "Sabbath" and "Dominicus" to get "samedi" and "dimanche".
I'm not even sure how accurate that is, it's just what I surmised.
Nov 17, 2017
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#72
batgirl escribió:
kingofshedinjas wrote:
Those crazy gabachos did a really good job at altering "Sabbath" and "Dominicus" to get "samedi" and "dimanche".
I'm not even sure how accurate that is, it's just what I surmised.
No need to worry, I checked it before posting that comment because I found it hard to believe.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/samedi
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dimanche
Nov 17, 2017
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#73
starboystellan wrote:
It is impossible to look for consistency in mythology...
That's one of the frustrating, and confusing, aspects, but it's also one of its appeals, I think. When I fist read the Iliad, maybe 25 years ago -I think it was the translation by Alexander Pope- I used a commentary to try to understand what was happening. The commentary proved to he actually more confusing than the poem, going into extreme details about the etymology, sources for references and the various interpretations. The complexity of Greek mythology is one of it's more appealing traits if also one of its most difficult ones.
batgirl wrote:
starboystellan wrote:
It is impossible to look for consistency in mythology...
That's one of the frustrating, and confusing, aspects, but it's also one of its appeals, I think. When I fist read the Iliad, maybe 25 years ago -I think it was the translation by Alexander Pope- I used a commentary to try to understand what was happening. The commentary proved to he actually more confusing than the poem, going into extreme details about the etymology, sources for references and the various interpretations. The complexity of Greek mythology is one of it's more appealing traits if also one of its most difficult ones.
Yes, I agree. I'm enjoying reading Homer and Hesiod; they go together reasonably well. It does get confusing!
A lot of our star constallations are named after Greek & Roman gods.
Nov 18, 2017
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#76
RonaldJosephCote wrote:
A lot of our star constallations are named after Greek & Roman gods.
Yes they are.
Nov 18, 2017
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#77
JunyJunebug wrote:
batgirl wrote:
Does anyone find it odd that out months are Roman but our days of the week are Norse?
Norse and Roman gods were also loosely connected.
Certainly not to the ancient Greeks and Norsemen?
haha
Nov 18, 2017
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#79
starboystellan wrote:
Yes, I agree. I'm enjoying reading Homer and Hesiod; they go together reasonably well. It does get confusing!
Hesiod is pretty interesting. I sort of remember his verses on the origins of the gods. Pythian odes of Pindar are pretty good to.
batgirl wrote:
starboystellan wrote:
Yes, I agree. I'm enjoying reading Homer and Hesiod; they go together reasonably well. It does get confusing!
Hesiod is pretty interesting. I sort of remember his verses on the origins of the gods. Pythian odes of Pindar are pretty good to.
He has pretty good histories of the gods and you can learn a lot about life then from his works too.
So are you saying that, according to the book, Athena had children with her mind? I don't remember reading that in the Percy Jackson book, it might not be said in the first one, which is the only one I have read.
Still, this sounds like a bad excuse by the author, or, as many people call it, artistic licence. Athena never had any natural children, she only adopted Erichtonius.