Posts
On the Shield out of Heracles, an earlier poem blamed (albeit wrongly) to Hesiod, Zeus seduces Alcmene as the the guy would like to make a kid—Heracles—that will “prevent depletion gods and men which consume money.” Zeus in addition to got of several mortal partners—generally girls, whether or not Ganymede, a good-looking prince out of Troy and the cupbearer of one’s gods, are one greatest male exception.

