Hera: Queen & goddess of the sky, women & marriage (hera_teleia) wrote in history_dot_com, @ 2013-05-28 20:46:00 |
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Entry tags: | ~aphrodite, ~hera |
All's Fair [during the Trojan War] (tag: Aphrodite)
Trust Zeus to have his resolve bent because of a woman. It didn't matter to Hera if the woman in question was Briseis or Thetis, though truthfully she was more bitter about Thetis' involvement. The end result was still the same: Zeus was allowing Greeks, his own people, to be defeated. Not only was he favoring the Trojans, he'd threatened her when she'd asked him about it, then forbidden anyone else on Olympus from “interfering” in the war. He was interfering! For the wrong side!
Really, she was disgusted with the lot of them. Agamemnon, forced to return Khyseis to end the plague inflicted by Apollo, turned around and took a slave girl belonging to Achilles. In response, Greece's best warrior had taken to his tent, refusing to fight, if Briseis wasn't returned to him. Like children fighting over toys, rather than soldiers and leaders with others depending on them. Ridiculous. And if that weren't enough, Achilles had asked his mother for help.
Oh, Hera hadn't heard the conversation, but she wasn't stupid. She could easily extrapolate what had been said by what had occurred after. Thetis, that silver-footed slut, had sat at Zeus' knee, whispering. And he'd bent his head to listen, to be closer to her pretty little whore face. And then he'd turned around and banned them from helping in the war while suddenly the Trojans began to win? Achilles wasn't so very good that an entire army would collapse without his aid. No. He'd asked his mother to intervene for him, and Zeus had given in. Against his own people. For a woman.
Well. If a woman could bend his resolve, a woman could set it right again. She had inflamed his passions beyond reason before. She would do so again. But in order to be absolutely certain, as he had been very angry with her for questioning him about his talk with Thetis, Hera had a plan. She just needed to borrow something.
In preparation, Hera took a bath in the spring called Kanathos, then used her best cosmetics and her loveliest silks. And when she was certain that she was as beautiful as she could be, Hera went to find Aphrodite. Though they'd quarreled over the apple, and the Love goddess still favored Paris and his Trojans, the queen was certain that Aphrodite would help her. She knew her story would be impossible to resist.
Because she was going to lie.