Part one of term paper
In Hesiod’s Theogony, female divinities and their positions in the universe are presented through stories of great length. The effects of the female powers are abundant and critical. Even moreso, their origin and characteristics have great connotation reflecting the Olympian kingdom and its relations. Two female divinities in particular , ...

Part two of term paper
... between their traits. They were both “born” from a male figure being gods in particular. The father of Aphrodite is Uranus and the father of Athena is the omnipotent Zeus. Not only were they both brought into existence from the males but specifically and indirectly through male body parts. Cronus, son of Gaia and Uranus, despised his father to a vast degree that “with his right (hand) he swung/the fiendishly long and jagged sickle, pruning the genitals/of his own father with one swoop ...