At this point, I'm more interested on how their domestic life is especially when Arel comes to her teens where marriage talks begins. Oh dear, it will be hilarious.
I read the message of the artist I know they will never see this but I hope they get well soon. Focus more on recovery, we'll be here waiting
I need to rant
He is the most insufferable fool in this series. He made everyone suffer so much just because he was a fool who believed anyone and not to be skeptical about it. I know it's a royal family and they have a history of snake behavior but to hell with him, he made his brothers suffer because he was an insecure fool. Samuel and the mage master does not deserve to carry his mess.
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For anyone who cannot understand Apollo's attitude, you have to understand, in Greek mythology, all gods have their folly. Apollo's hubris is his pride and arrogance. He was once rejected by Cassandra an oracle and made her be rejected by her people as punishment. Zeus and his womanizing ways causing problems with everyone around him including humans who he messed around with. Poseidon is not any better as he had raped a Vestal virgin and caused her to be despised by Athena (her patron god) and became a Gorgon. Athena is not off the hook either as she once cursed a woman who criticise the gods and made her a spider.
Hey girly! Good morning. Please check your sources. Because, yes, you're totally right! This is based off of the myth of Daphne and Apollo, wherein Daphne was so repulsed by the god that she prayed to be turned to a tree instead! However, you're off by some points.
Hubris is specifically human (or mortal, to be precise) arrogance and pride, if I recall correctly (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong!). An example of a Greek hero with such fatal flaw is Odysseus, from Homer's Odyssey. Or, if you need more, Achilles, Niobe, Phaethon, Icarus, Bellerophon, Arachne, and even good ol' Oedipus the King. Gods do not have hubris, therefore, Apollo's fatal flaw isn't hubris.
For the story of Cassandra (a tale not included in the earliest recorded poem of the Trojan War, the Iliad by Homer), she wasn't already an oracle. I cannot remember for certain if they truly were lovers or if Apollo simply had taken to courting her, but it was he who granted the princess the gift of foresight. When she would not sleep with him or engage with him and he couldn't take the gift back, he instead cursed her so that no one shall believe her prophecies, dooming her to be mad upon knowing how her country and family will fall but helpless to do anything against it as no one believed her.
For Zeus, you're entirely correct. He once took on the form of Amphitryon and fooled his own great-granddaughter, Alcmene the wife of Amphitryon, to sleep with her. This resulted in the birth of the most well-known hero in Greek mythology, Heracles. He also has other cases of debauchery, like Leda, Danae, Ganymede, and others.
Poseidon never raped a Vestal virgin as, surprise, Vestal virgins are Roman priestesses. In Greek mythology, Medusa wasn't raped by Poseidon in the earliest known sources but was instead born as a Gorgon that had two sisters.
Once again, you have to understand that gods see themselves as above humans and mortals. Athena cursed Arachne because of, ding ding ding! Her hubris. Arachne, as to be read in Ovid's Metamorphoses (a clearly Roman source, but is controversially believed to have had prior Greek bases, so Arachne's myth is still inherently Greek mythology), boasted of her own talent and dared to say that she could weave better than even the goddess of weaving herself, Lady Athena. A competition then occurred, and Arachne was declared champion. Athena, enraged at the audacity of a mere mortal, cursed her to keep weaving for eternity if she so prided herself in her talent for weaving. Which is, again, another indication that gods are different from humans. Comparison is unfathomable between the two.
That said, have a great day!
In fact, even the very myth this manhwa was based on, the one of Apollo and Daphne, has no surviving Ancient Greek reference! It was largely popularized by Ovid, a Roman poet who wrote Metamorphoses.
Love your points and these are well noted. And the author have done a great job of making sure that Apollo is not likable in a human sense because, again, Greek gods are arrogant and selfish. And everything they have done is because of their wants and wiles.
This selfish shaiza. I know cassis is a pushover and allowed it to happened, but goodness me! Daniel didn't see the signs because he's thinking with his other head! Cassis saw through her earlier enough but can't do anything anymore. Now in the next chapter will Daniel be apologetic of ruining his brother's youth by marrying a psycho or just justify himself?. I'm thinking the latter.
Just because she was talented you abused her and drove a wedge to siblings. Useless father didn't paid any attention if what is happening in his house. Parents of the year am I right?
Wouldn't that also cause a international conflict? The cloth used was a gift from the foreign prince for a wedding as a symbol of friendship in two countries? Tsk tsk
It was her guilt that is why she kept protecting Alisha. But at this point I'm face palming because she does not set boundaries until it escalated at this point. Her siblings were victims of their father and somehow part complacency from Alisha herself. It's not fair for Alisha to say that their siblings died when she herself rode on favors given to her by the deadbeat on the backs of the ones who dies. Paula needs to have a backbone