... , the god of war; Hebe, the goddess of youth; Hephaestus, the god of fire; and Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth. At the same time, Zeus is described as falling in love with one woman after another and resorting to all kinds of tricks to hide his infidelity from his wife. Stories of his escapades were numerous in ancient mythology, and many of his offspring were a result of his love ... affairs with both goddesses and mortal women. It is believed that, with the development of a sense of ethics in Greek life, the idea of a lecherous, sometimes ridiculous father god became distasteful,...

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... large number of the warriors that have died in the Trojan War.  The death of these warriors shows the mortality of human beings (Forman 2015).  Another unchangeable law is the period of limbo that is said to await the souls of the unburied after death. Homer indicates this law by writing of Patroclus' spirit's ... and childish scenes.  Hera challenges Zeus' decision to punish the Greeks in revenge for Achilles' dishonor, and later she directly intervenes in the midst of a successful Trojan onslaught, angry at their successes. "In these instances her anger is not described in conj...

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