ASOIAF & ze Greek pantheon

[misstopia]

Okay, so I'm a little silly, and I was thinking about ASOIAF and Greek(/Roman) mythology, trying to match people up, because this is the silly kind of thing I think about.

Zeus/Jupiter = Robert Baratheon. King, smiter, womanizer.
Hera/Juno = Cersei Lannister. Queen, hard, vindictive.
     Caveat: Hera championed marriage and didn't use sex
Ares/Mars = Jaime Lannister. Rwwaaarr carnage! Boo consequences! I am the hawt!
Apollo = Rhaegar Targaryen. Ideal, learned, righteous warrior.
Demeter/Ceres = Catelyn. Earthy, nurturing, grieving mother.
Persephone/Proserpina = Sansa. Innocent, youthful, captive.
Hermes/Mercury Pan = Tyrion. Cunning, witty, irreverent.
Artemis/Diana = Asha. Warrior, willful, voluntary bachelorette.
     Caveat: Artemis is associated with childbirth and virgins
Nemesis/Invidia = Arya. Vengeful, vengeful, vengeful.
Dionysus/Bacchus = Renly. Theatrical, good-timing, bon vivant. (Kinda weak huh?)
Hades/Pluto = Sandor. Dark, brooding, deathly.

Aphrodite/Venus bonked brother Ares/Mars even though she was married to someone else, so Cersei could be part Aphrodite. However Aphrodite was also genuinely loving, if vain. I almost put Margaery as Aphrodite because they're both beautiful, and come off as the popular pretty confident girl. Aphrodite slept around and there's speculation about Margaery's sexual activities. That's all I got.
Littlefinger might work for Hermes/Mercury, but Hermes is not evil. Clearly Littlefinger = Loki from Norse myth.
Bran is crippled like Hephaesteus/Vulcan and just may turn out to be something of a smith according to fan theory, but Bran is more inquisitive and there are no correlates for the green dreams, nor for Hephaesteus being cheated on by Aphrodite in the other direction. Tyrion is also deformed like Hephaesteus.
Weak correspondence between Dany vs Stannis and Athena vs Poseiden/Neptune. Athena's the most revered female deity and Dany's the seeming main heroine. GRRM might be giving Dany some Targ genius and Athena was wise. Both led armies and were judiciously fierce. Stannis and Poseidon are both overlooked resentful second brothers. Stannis and Dany might clash over the throne, and Poseidon and Athena both fought over who got the city now known as Athens named after them. Dany is probably anticipated to beat Stannis just like Athena beat Poseidon.
Brienne is a virginal warrior like Artemis/Diana ... but she seems way nicer. I mean I liked Artemis but she was a little mean. Lyanna also has an Artemisian vibe, athletic and resisting marriage, but also part Helen of Troy.
Wiki says: "The central myth of Demeter, which is at the heart of the Eleusinian Mysteries, is her relationship with Persephone, her daughter and own younger self." Eh, eh!

Thoughts?

Comments

[jesatria.livejournal.com]

I think Cersei is a good fit for Aphrodite. Although I can see how you went with Hera for her.

[misstopia.livejournal.com]

Your icon is awesome! XD

Really I guess it is her marriage that made me go with Hera, otherwise Aphrodite sticks out a lot (I'm sure everyone sees Aphrodite as a blonde!). Hera was known for being vain as her pet peacocks, but really all the gods were pretty full of themselves eh?

[cloud-wolf.livejournal.com]

I actually always picture Aphrodite with dark brown hair. Just seems more classy with pink/red.
The only Greek Gods I picture with blond hair are Apollo and Athena. Oh, and Ganymede. The rest of them have hair colours ranging from light brown to dark brown to black.

[redcandle17.livejournal.com]

I don't remember how I pictured the Greek mythology characters as a kid, but since Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess, I've been picturing Alexandra Tydings as Aphrodite. :P

[misstopia.livejournal.com]

Ahah, I loved Alexandra Tydings on those shows, she was a hoot. But I kind of stopped watching along the way, did they ever state that Ares was Cupid's father? 'Cause I remember them showing her as a generally sincere wife to "Heffy" which was not like the myths.

[redcandle17.livejournal.com]

There was never any Ares/Aphrodite on those shows. They were written as siblings and the show avoided mentioning that Zeus and Hera were siblings so I think they were ignoring the incest.

[misstopia.livejournal.com]

Gotcha. Too much time with ASOIAF has made me forget that most people actually avoid the subject of incest. (I suppose they never mentioned that Hephaesteus and Aphrodite were at lest half siblings as well!)

[redcandle17.livejournal.com]

I suppose they never mentioned that Hephaesteus and Aphrodite were at lest half siblings as well!

Nope.

[misstopia.livejournal.com]

My first exposure to mythology was D'Aulaires (http://www.amazon.com/DAulaires-Greek-Myths-Ingri-DAulaire/dp/0440406943/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207417441&sr=8-1) and in there I think she was a blonde, but I also read that she had dark brown hair in some books also, especially when it was emphasized that she was Cytheran in origin. Apollo's totally a blond, I saw Athena more with light sandy brown hair but I can see blonde too.

[cloud-wolf.livejournal.com]

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.