Classical Mythology/Fridge

Fridge Brilliance

• The children of Ares (war, combat, bloodlust) and Aphrodite (beauty, sex) are: Eros (love), Anteros (requited love), Himeros (uncontrollable immediate desire), Pothos (longing desire), Harmonia (harmony), Phobos (fear), Deimos (horror/terror) and Adrestia (revenge); which are all of the emotions that can happen in a relationship between the foul-tempered abusive jock and the pretty girl. The ancient Greeks understood relationships.
  • Norse gods are almost always depicted as tall and Nordic looking, to the point where people actually had a fit when the movie version of Thor had a black Heimdall. So, how come the Greek gods are never depicted as short, dark, and hairy?
    • Because not all Greeks look like that.
  • According to Hesiod, the Golden Age ended when Prometheus gave fire to mankind. Afterwards was the Silver Age, followed by the Bronze Age, which ended with The Great Flood in the time of Deucalion and Pyrrha. Considering the Deucalion was Prometheus's son, and Pyrrha was the daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora, this means that the Silver and Bronze Ages combined lasted for only one generation.
• I don't know where else to put this other than here, so... In the legend of Pandora's box, Pandora's curiosity got the better of her and she opened said aforementioned box, and in doing so let out all of the evils in the world. She managed to get the lid shut again just in time to trap one last thing; hope. So... the things in the box to start weren't a part of the world right? So, what, we have no hope because she closed the box? Or it's the other way around and we have hope but no evil?
  • The version that I heard most was that hope came out with all of the evils. Before evil, hope wasn't necessary. After she releases the evil, she also releases hope, so humans don't all kill themselves in despair. The world is bad, ys, but we can always hope for something better.
  • The version I read goes: she didn't trap a creature called Hope in the box, or release a creature called Hope along with all the other evils. She trapped a creature that would tell everyone exactly what evils would befall them and what horrors lay in their future. By trapping this creature, she gave the world the gift of hope (figuratively more than literally).

Fridge Horror

• The story of King Midas plays on this trope: "OK, yippee, everything you touch turns to gold. Now go try to eat your dinner."
• Scylla, Charybdis and Medusa and the sisters all used to be women that were turned into monster. While unfair, why they might have been turned into monsters is linked to Pandora. The Gods created Pandora to bring evil upon men after Prometheus returned fire to them. As a result, the monstrous forms that they were turned into represented the "evil" in their hearts, as descendants of Pandora. - saiyan5ninetail

Fridge Logic

• Both Semele and Psyche were forbidden to look upon the faces of the gods sharing their bed. When Zeus appeared to Semele, she burst into flames. When Psyche peeked at Eros, she ended up only chastised. Why did one manage to survive, but not both?
  • Semele asked Zeus to appear in front of her in his true divine form and her mortal body couldn't bear standing by such a power. Psyche looked at Eros in human form while he was sleeping,
  • How does anyone know about Medusa if everyone who looks at her in the eyes turn to stone?
    • Two people happen upon Medusa. One looks her in the eyes and turns to stone. The other sees her only from an angle, possibly from behind, but sees his friend turn to stone from looking her in the face. The second guy runs away before Medusa stares him in the face, and goes on to spread the story.

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