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To: apro
Don't you mean Athena instead of Persephone? She was the other who was offered The Golden Apple of The Sun.
99 posted on 10/21/2005 2:37:43 PM PDT by NathanR (Mexico: So far from God; So close to the USA.)
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To: NathanR

No, Athena was known for her wisdom, Penelope for her loyalty but the other three - Helen, Aphrodite and Persephone - were known as the most beautiful women in all Greek mythology.

Helen - well we know her story

Aphrodite - as well as her's

Persephone - also known as Kore, the Flower-Maid, the Mistress, the Iron Queen, the Pale Queen. Persephone was apparently very beautiful to the point that Aphrodite's daughter in-law, Psyche, fell into a coma when she opened the box which held the mystery and intrigue of the Queen’s beauty. Her beauty, while a testament to all that was good and pure, attracted the unwanted attentions of many men and one of them happened to be the Lord of the underworld, Hades, and with some help from Aphrodite, Persephone became unwillingly the Queen of the Underworld.


106 posted on 10/21/2005 6:17:24 PM PDT by apro
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