History WMG / Classicalmythology

--> '''Athena''': But father, she broke her vow of chastity! Besides, it wasn't even my fault, it wss Poseidon's!

** Some myths involve Hephaestus [[AttemptedRape attempting to rape Athena]], but her managing to evade him. Unless Hephaestus is [[DepravedBisexual as undescriminating as]] [[AnythingThatMoves the rest of the gods]], realizing that the woman he's attempting to rape is actually a man would be [[UnsettlingGenderReveal quite a surprise]].

After Athena, their unnamed male second child was prophesied to overthrow him, but only Athena is recorded to have made it out of Zeus alive (he swallowed Metis alive after she turned into a fly). While in his stomach, Metis fashioned armor and weapons for Athena, so that when she escaped it was fully armed and armored. If Metis was that skilled at crafting and shapeshifting, it seems likely that she had the means to escape while Zeus was distracted at some point, such as when his head was being split open to let out the adult-at-birth Athena. Who would notice a little fly escaping as well? Zeus was also the sort to screw AnythingThatMoves, so Metis would have had plenty of opportunities to disguise herself later if she sought to fulfill the prophecy.\\

Twice there were Roman empires who attempted to push for a solar deity to have prominence. Wanting to take power over his fellow gods, Helios/Sol used Elagabalus to promote him in the form of El-Gabal and replace [[TopGod Jupiter]] as the main god. However he was too forceful and this, combined with Elagabalus banging AnythingThatMoves, made him unstable and led to his assassination. Learning his lesson, he later tried again with Aurelian and his Sol Invictus cult, being less forceful. Aurelian was so successful due to having Helios/Sol' backing, so Zeus/Jove requested Eris/Discordia to throw a bit of chaos into the mix by having him assassinated. She was no doubt having a lot of fun with the Crisis of the Third Century and given Aurelian would've ended it had he not been killed, she was on board. Before Helios had another opportunity his plans were foiled in advanced with Christianity taking over, so he instead decide to bum around in the Americas were more people recognized the sun as a TopGod.

It was said that the Titans lorded over a golden age of human civilization, which probably meant Atlantis, which was an [[AdvancedAncientHumans advanced utopia]]. During the Golden Age, humanity never had to work for food, because the earth ([[ClarkesThirdLaw a metaphor for technology]]) provided everything for them. But because of their hubris, Atlantis was destroyed by the "Gods", and so were the Titans. The "Gods" referred here might as well be Zeus and his siblings, who led a rebellion against his father, Cronus, who in his {{hubris}} tried to [[OedipusComplex kill off his children]] and rule forever. However, the destruction of Atlantis meant the end of the Golden Age, and now humanity had to scavenge [[FullCircleRevolution under the tyranny of the Olympians]] [[JerkassGods who are still too immature and childish to lord another golden age]], paving the way for Prometheus giving humanity fire to restore their LostTechnology ([[VideoGame/GodOfWar and perhaps allowing humanity to rebel against the Olympians]] just like how they rebelled against the Titans).

Depending on the myth, Hephaestus may not have a father. [[OedipusComplex Father-son competition]] and [[YouCantFightFate the prophecy]] would prevent Athena from overthrowing Zeus. This leaves Ares, however he wasn't the brains behind the operation. Athena wanted the position of TopGod, but [[ValuesDissonance because of Greek opinion]] couldn't directly become one. Hepaestus wanted to get back at his KarmaHoudini of a father. They teamed up to train Ares to assasinate his father, which Athena planned to use as a puppet ruler. Mars is the chief god of Rome because its Ares, who has ascended to that role. Athena is either subtly manipulating Ares/Mars, or Ares/Mars got smart and removed her. His PapaBear tendencies is him being prepared to prevent what happened to his male ancestry happening to him again.

[[WMG: LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya is the last descendant of the Greek Gods.]]

** There's even a version of the Hephaestus-marrying-Aphrodite myth, where he traps Hera on a magic throne and demanded the hand of Aphrodite in exchange for Hera's release. Later {{Top God}}s are famous for having a [[CoolChair throne of power]] as part of their shtick, something a {{disabled deity}} like Hephaestus would benefit from and know how to make. And where else has a flying wheeled throne ([[http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5070/5673353509_2f015984e5.jpg like Hephaestus's]]) shown up in [[Literature/TheBible literature]][[labelnote:note]]Ezekiel I[[/labelnote]]?

This also gives the hilarious mental image of her father Zeus scolding her afterwards for targeting an innocent mortal like regulaer mortal familis.
--> '''Zeus''': Young lady, you do not curse a mortal human like that!

** Athena didn't have a successor. That's why we don't see Greek gods [[OhCrap any-morrr... God is a woman.]] YouCanPanicNow.

** Eh, Zeus's child, Zeus's grandchild, [[IncestIsRelative it's all the same]] in Greek Mythology.

Given how benevolent and level-headed she she compared to her fellow Olympians, her cursing Medusa for something not of the latter's fault seems incredibly hypocritical - unless the incident happened early chronologically, when mentally she was effectively s teenager and more prone to self-righteous judgments and lashing out.

This also gives the hilarious mental image of her father Zeus scolding her afterwards for targeting an innocent mortal.

--> '''Athena''': But father, she broke her vow of chastity!

Despite being seen as the HateSink of the Olympians by most of the Ancient Greeks, Ares [[EqualOpportunityEvil is remarkably accepting]] for a patriarchal age: he's almost never show as treating women as lesser or being a sex pest [[DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal like his dad]], [[PapaWolf and is protective of his daughters]]. While Aphrodites ReallyGetsAround with more likable gods like Dionysus and Hermes, Ares is clearly her favorite consort. Perhaps it's not just the bad boy allure, but actually being a considerate lover and respectful of the fairer sex. Related, Spartan women had a more important role than in other Greek city states, so Aphrodite might have seen this [[EvilVirtues as a virtue of Ares]].

[[WMG: Ouranos's later actions in ''Literature/TheTheogony'' are a case of RevengeByProxy.]]
In earlier retellings Gaea wasn't the only one who helped Rhea hide the baby Zeus from Cronus, but her father Ouranos too. Given his prior characterization as an EvilOverlord and Gaea orchestrating his castration, Ouranos' sudden HeelFaceTurn seems somewhat out of character. However what if it's more selfishly motivated? As Cronus was the one who physically and metaphorically emasculated him and took his throne, [[EnemyMine he decided working with Gaea was worth it]] [[ArchnemesisDad to get back at his usurper son]]. So by making sure Zeus doesn't get swallowed and is protected by Gaea he can eventually give Cronus a taste of his own medicine even if he could no longer personally get involved.

[[WMG: Aphrodite's love for Ares runs deeper than just AllGirlsWanBadBoys.]]

--> '''Athena''': But father, she broke her vow of chasity!

--> '''YHVH:''' 1:1 [[TheSimpsons Hi-diddly-ho there, neighbor-ino!]]

[[WMG:[[VideoGame/Splatoon Inklings]] worshipped Poseidon.]]

[[WMG: [[VideoGame/Splatoon Inklings]] worshipped Poseidon.]]

Possibly even Kahn and his friends: it would certainly explain their megalomania. Their divine powers are the results of technology. Omnicience, weather control, and Lightning? Drones with lasers to trigger lightning bolts and carrying cloud seeding chemicals, [[SigilSpam decorated to look like Eagles]]. Shaking the earth and tsunamis? Nuclear weaponry. Spawning monsters? Genetic engineering, cybernetics and simple access to animals from the entire world. Realm of the dead and elysium people could visit? Labor camp for mining using enemies of the 'gods' as slave labor and a resort island with modern luxuries, respectively. Magically fertile crops? Modern knowledge of plant breeding and pesticides. The list goes on.

The pre-Socratic Greek philosophers were the first to propose that all matter is made from atoms, but the similarity to modern atomic theory is InNameOnly. Meanwhile Greek mythology starts with Chaos existing from eternity, but one day spontaneously creates the Protogenoi which give rise to all the gods, at which point Chaos just disappears. Lucretius says that Chaos was just atoms going every which way and never staying in one place long enough to make anything, but over infinite time the atoms should start to stick together through pure chance. Since Chaos disappears after Gaia is made, the logical conclusion is that the atoms of Chaos all arranged themselves into something stable leaving nothing left over. Gaia gives rise to the Titans who give rise to the Olympians, so even the gods are made of purely physical matter, which implies that [[AllYourPowersCombined Chaos is the most powerful being in mythology by far]], even though it’s not even sentient. But since the gods directly descend from Chaos, they retain the entropy-defying ability to rearrange atoms however they want, explaining their power over the forces of nature and the physical world, and [[Literature/{{Metamorphoses}} their ability to turn anything into anything else]]. But they still cannot fight fate, because Fate is not a being: in the Orphic cosmology the three uncreated things at the beginning were Chaos, Time, and Fate. The latter is just how the other two interact. The Moirai and Apollo are able to reconstruct how atoms will interact ahead of time, but can’t stop it.

Going from the two above WMG's, ''[[TheBlacksmith Hephaestus]]'' overthrew Zeus with Athena providing strategy as his wife and Ares/Mars and the [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire]] being the front cover of the coup.with him now on the throne he pays Ares back by letting him and the romans conquer the world while spreading technology and science to the world.Now in the modern world he and Athena have brought western civilization to maturity while also rapidly improving technology and meanwhile Ares has benefited by causing two world wars and receiving upgrades to his weapons(thermonuclear weapons and the like).