zeus was such a sex addict that most of greece believed they were related to him

Its funny because the gods were as inbred as the Spanish monarchy :D

 

I'm taking a mythology class next semester and I just can't wait to get into the fucked ancestry (more like incestry am I rite).

 

Greek Pantheon: Arkansas before Arkansas

 

That's something I never learned in primary school. Dang, my knowledge is incomplete.

 

After four years of studying Greek & Roman mythology I am totally uninterested by it.

 

An all too common thing back in those days. You became that much cooler if you could claim kinship with the god of your choosing. And it wasn't just the Greeks.

 

Ghenghis Khan was such a sex addict that one out of every two hundred men today are direct descendants of him.

 

Prometheus was punished by the gods for giving the gift of knowledge to man, he was cast into the bowels of the earth and pecked by birds.

 

Prometheus = GLaDOS
punished = put into a potato
gods = Chell
gift of knowledge = the chassis/control of Aperture
man = Wheatley
bowels of the earth = Old Aperture
pecked by birds = self explanatory.

Except Prometheus was punished by having his liver eaten everyday by an eagle. Being a god/immortal being, it would regenerate every night after the eagle had flown away. PotaDOS does say that the bird did partially eat her. And this being when she doesn't have the literal energy to lie.

 

also i'm pretty sure he was punished for bestowing the gift of fire... x:

a year or so ago i was obsessed with greek mythology, hehe. i mean, i still enjoy it but like i'm not as bad.

literally i would stay up all night just to read wikipedia and learn everything the gods.

i'd even create little tests for myself, like multiple choice and open-ended questions and junk.

oh oh, and i specifically remember creating one of those match-up things ( like where you need to draw a line from one column to the other ) and i'd put like what each god is most known for and who their parents were and who their lovers were and it was all just... actually kind of crazy haha!

i enjoyed myself, nonetheless, but i'm glad i'm sort of done with that phase in my life lol

 

I studied the actual Hercules story in high school...let's just say there are some slightly major differences between that and the Disney version o.O

Also, I'm Greek, so I'm not exactly sure how I should feel about this

 

...Uh. So in this analogy, the gods ripped the gift of knowledge from Prometheus, passing it over to man, who rewarded them by casting them and Prometheus into the bowels of the earth. Then the gods cooperated with Prometheus to return from the bowels and wrest control of the gift of knowledge from man, restoring it to Prometheus, who as a matter of grace and a severe lack of giving a shit anymore commanded the gods to leave.

????

 

Yes, Prometheus got so fed up with everything that he first cast Man into space and then told the gods to get the hell out of dodge. Then he created a new race of people to fight against the birds. All while he's having PTSD concerning having his liver ripped out and eaten daily.

 

...I like your version better