In my imagination Ares and Aphrodite have the same hair colour. They are my white-trash-of-the-gods OTP. :D (they're always so rude! hee!)
d'aulaires looks like a book I'd totally love if I got it as a kid. Anyways, I got this really thick book with Greek and Roman myths when I was nine or something, I loved the stories but you could tell it was written by this old guy with no idea how to make a story exciting. THen I got this brilliant Dutch book "Waiting for Apollo" which rocked for, y'know, making an actual story out of five myths. The writer really showed the imperfections of the gods (eg, Athena and Arachne) and her version of Apollo and his young son who crashed the sunchariot was really awesome. And Apollo and Daphne was wonderful as well (especially because of Eros, he was such a cocky brat.)
Actually this reminds me what I don't like about the Greek myths, they're so rarely told as real stories, but more like some inscriptions read by some archeologist.
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Date: 2008-04-06 07:07 am (UTC)d'aulaires looks like a book I'd totally love if I got it as a kid. Anyways, I got this really thick book with Greek and Roman myths when I was nine or something, I loved the stories but you could tell it was written by this old guy with no idea how to make a story exciting. THen I got this brilliant Dutch book "Waiting for Apollo" which rocked for, y'know, making an actual story out of five myths. The writer really showed the imperfections of the gods (eg, Athena and Arachne) and her version of Apollo and his young son who crashed the sunchariot was really awesome. And Apollo and Daphne was wonderful as well (especially because of Eros, he was such a cocky brat.)
Actually this reminds me what I don't like about the Greek myths, they're so rarely told as real stories, but more like some inscriptions read by some archeologist.