Your favorite Greek deity

[brentspeak]

Aphrodite



Apollo



Ares



Athena



Artemis



Dionysus



Poseiden



Hephaestus



Zeus

[brendan120678]

1. Ares - because he's badass. (nt)

[Nuclear Unicorn]

3. I vote Athena

and she totally whipped Ares' butt!

[jus_the_facts]

2. Achilles ...

....if you haven't already...you should read Dan Simmons Illium and Olympos!! :)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x8480750

[surrealAmerican]

13. Oops.

Wrong place, sorry.

[MrSlayer]

18. Wrong spot.

[Sebastian Doyle]

4. Cygnus, the god of balance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaP77oKqfbE

[SidneyCarton]

5. Athena, with Artemis running a close second.

[TheMightyFavog]

6. Dionysus!

Everyone loves the god of booze and partying.

[Enrique]

7. look at the abs on Poseiden

must be all that swimming.

[brentspeak]

8. Zeus is probably angry he's getting no votes

He'll get Poseiden to launch a few mile-high tsunamis over the earth until he gets more support.

[david13]

9. Favorite god, or favorite statue of the god? I don't know, as I don't

know all of them. I haven't even ever finished my Bullfinch.
I'm working my way through Shakespeare at this time. It took me about 45 years to get to that. But I'm doing a real thorough job on it, including live plays.
Recently I liked tapping into the Prometheus story, bound, unbound, thwarting Zeus in his plot to destroy mankind, I don't know, knowing all about mankind, and being a man, I still am not so sure I should object to a plan to destroy mankind.
dc

[Bucky]

10. Xena

But this god is a close second...

[busybl]

34. this statue of George Washington

in ridiculous. What were they thinking?

[Bucky]

41. Neoclassicism

Before there was kitsch, there was romanticism and before that there was neoclassicism. Most of human history is fill with garishness. I mean, jeeze louise, have you ever read the Bible, or Homer, or Hindu mythology? What's all of that if not over the top, maudlin exaggeration?

[MilesColtrane]

43. "I cannot tell a lie."

"I use the Ab Blaster."

[sarge43]

11. Athena, defending warrior, patron of the civic virtues and guardian of Ulysses. n/t

[Gabi Hayes]

12. Echidna, of course. She was the Barbara Bush of the gods

check it out

[surrealAmerican]

14. We're doomed.

Your failure to include Hera will bring this forum down!

[Cant trust em]

15. Technically not a god, but I've always thought that Orion the Hunter is pretty cool.

Best constellation in the sky.

[Sebastian Doyle]

21. You mean the band Barry Goudreau was in after he left Boston?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USLAHPQ0-8g

[WinkyDink]

16. My "namesake", Dionysus.

[david13]

17. I have come to the bottom line. I have no favorite, I like them all,

mostly, at different times. Aphrodite and Athena, but also the gods of the seas, of motorcycles, of journeying, of good food, etc.
dc

[pokerfan]

19. Apollo

[MrSlayer]

20. Ares.

One bad motherfucker. I'm also a large fan of Dionysus.

[ccharles000]

22. Athena

[NNadir]

23. If you would just get the story right...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth-o-Mania

It's um, Hades.

[eppur_se_muova]

25. Are those as funny as "Fractured Fairy Tales"?

Mixing media, I know ... just curious ...

[NNadir]

31. They are hilarious. I can't recommend them enough, particularly for kids, since the

underlying message is the value of critical thinking, and the importance of not believing everything you hear.

Pure wit.

[eppur_se_muova]

32. Thanks. Will look for them, even though I have no kids but myself. ;) nt

[cemaphonic]

24. Athena and Apollo

[eppur_se_muova]

26. Athena, because anyone with an owl for a sidekick must be cool.

Also, nothing beats the Athenian Age for sheer enlightment.

(Well, OK, except maybe The Age of Enlightment.)

[vikegirl]

27. ARES! And never that bitch Athene(a)

...******...

***Shameless plug time***

See why at my website www.areopagus.net (Please excuse the pedestrian nature of the site...it was conceived when I was very young and not all into website design).

[TheKentuckian]

28. Aphrodite, cause she keeps the party poppin' (nt)

[BlooInBloo]

29. It's close, but Apollo > Athena

[proteus_lives]

30. Proteus of course!

Ever-changing Old Man of the Sea. ;-)

[Deja Q]

33. Ares must obviously take steroids...

:hide:

Hephaestus - now that cat knows how not to exude hubris...

:rofl:

[Fire Walk With Me]

35. Sterculius.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBHYM0SWxqc

[Kutjara]

36. Phoebus Apollo.

Mostly because of his sunny disposition.

[wickerwoman]

37. Hermes

nt

[quakerboy]

38. I dont want to play favorites

but Hephaestus seems the only one who is at all useful.

[Bucky]

42. He reminds me of Festus the semi crippled blacksmith from Gunsmoke.

You don't suppose... ?

Nah, couldn't be.

[frogmarch]

39. Pan

[Odin2005]

40. Hephaestus, the god of engineers!

:D

[MilesColtrane]

44. Eris

Hail Discordia!

[Brigid]

45. Athena.

Goddess of wisdom. :)

But a shoutout is due to Odysseus. Not a god, but endowed with so much cleverness and nerve that he gets his own two-hour episode on "Clash of the Gods." :)