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[3treekisser]

If I've been pretty quiet, it's because I spent the last week travelling alone...in Greece! Apparently I couldn't stand feeling like I was going nowhere, so of course I went far back into the past...

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[disordersarefun]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

my jealousy knows no bounds. you are now added to my list of mean people who go on euro holidays while i am mired in readings, joining zach.

but the post made me laugh. (: i am secretly quite glad you didnt just dump the photos on facebook and made a very good post on livejournal.

[3treekisser]

heh thanks, glad to know my facebook snubbing paid off. :)

and hello, at least you have internships lined up! reason i jetted off suddenly was to make myself feel better at the lack of career options this summer. phooey.

sigh. i wish i could take a year out of law school.

[labrys6]

Splendid vacation! Like you, I think the remains of the second temple to Athena is nicer than the one in Athens. But I think the analysis of her alleged "Daddy's girl" status is a bit shallow. Yes, that is indeed how the stories portray her ---and taking the side of men in trials because she had 'no mother' is all well documented.

But there are some series suggestions that she actually predates the Indo-European Greeks who brought Zeus and his pals into the spotlight of Greece; that she was a pre-eminent mother goddess who simply changed roles. That said, she does remind me more of grouchy old maids. I'm not too sure she really likes Zeus or men at all!

It is a pity you didn't get to other places. I bet one could vacation in Greece for years without getting bored.

[3treekisser]

+++But there are some series suggestions that she actually predates the Indo-European Greeks+++

Funny you mention this, because one of the essays I read alluded to the same thing (it noted that 'A-tha-na' doesn't have Greek linguistic roots and probably predates hellenistic culture).

I do think the Greeks cut her down to size (she always seems so powerful but she never plays the lead), but I also think you're onto something in her being pre-eminent before them. I remember liking her as a kid for being goddess of wisdom, but as I've grown whenever I think of her I get this insistent feeling that she's FIERCE and that I'm not macho enough for her!

+++It is a pity you didn't get to other places. I bet one could vacation in Greece for years without getting bored.+++

Oh definitely! There's just so many things to do and places to see though. Sometimes I don't know if I'm exasperated with all the stuff to do in the world or in love with it.

[labrys6]

Fierce she is; I sometimes think I am not macho enough. I sometimes think she actually hates the modern world---she probably thinks wisdom has been discounted down to nothing, she hates modern warfare with its random slaughter, and nobody wants to be domestic anymore. People forget she was worshiped in the home as a goddess of domesticity (another sign of her predating the Zeus-headache-labor story).

She is not tender, like Hekate. But she is tough and enduring.

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I LOVE GREEK YOGURT AND HONEY!

[3treekisser]

Meh. For 5 Euros it was disappointing. But def something I'd consider making myself...

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You probably paid too much :x