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Malikhi t1_je6np6g wrote

Reply to comment by Korberos in eli5 why ancient historical buildings haven’t been kept up? Why are buildings like the Parthenon and the Colosseum in such disrepair? Greece and Rome/Italy have existed the entire time? by PickledSpace56

Thank you for crediting Athena as a war god. So many people only think of her the god of wisdom not realizing that her birth was literally due to the need for a wartime strategist. She could also throw down. I won't site anything for that one because it's just me liking to picture her putting Ares into a chokehold 😂

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Hisei_nc17 t1_je6wr5b wrote

Wasn't she born because Zeus ate some lady he got pregnant, causing him a severe migraine and she just popped out from his head after Hephaestus lobotomized him to stop the migraine? Was there more to that story than the usual self fulfilling prophecy?

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dfreshv t1_je7b54b wrote

Man, people say drugs have only gotten stronger over time, but the ancient Greeks were on some shit.

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Pays_in_snakes t1_je7k8if wrote

This is why Norse mythology is so wild, it's the cosmology of a people that spent every winter doing mushrooms in the dark

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Gwendolyn7777 t1_je8ma71 wrote

geezzz....them ancient Greeks could write some smokin fan fiction, huh?

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