Zeus: King of the Gods (theos_hypsistos) wrote in history_dot_com, @ 2012-04-08 19:52:00 |
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Entry tags: | ~deimos, ~zeus |
Using Your Talents Wisely - around 1400 BCE [tag: Deimos]
There were many things one might say of Zeus. Some would say he was wise. Some would say that he was foolhardy and ruled by his loins. Some would call him a tyrant while others would claim he was a good and just king. There were some that would call him patient and understanding and then some that would claim that his patience was thin and that he was thunderbolt happy. Some of his children might question his parenting techniques, but those children were few and far between. At least as far as he knew.
Unfortunately, one of his more difficult children had managed to produce some of Zeus' most difficult grandchildren. It wasn't that Ares and his more warlike children weren't skilled at what they did. It was just that, and Enyo had a similar problem, he had hoped they would branch out more. Use their talents to the benefit of others and the pantheon, not just for bloodshed.
It wasn't even that Zeus had an overall problem with the Achaeans invading Crete. But the destruction of the palace at Phaistos and the one at Knossos was a bit more irritating. There had been honor and symbols to the immortal gods in those sites, gods such as himself. The Minoans of Crete may not have shared the same ideals as the mainland Achaeans, Mycenaeans and the Dorians, but they were still under the same scope of worship. And they weren't a particularly violent people.
Knowing his grandson had been part of the siege, how could he not -who but Ares would devise such a plan, it was time for Zeus to try to educate the boy on where his talents could be utilized best. Something other than sacking a land that had no formalized military.
He wasn't going to go searching for Deimos, or his brother of whom Zeus had next on his list to discuss things with. Not only was that beneath his position -the boy should come to him, but it was likely to make Ares both suspicious and unnecessarily prickly. And when Ares was feeling particularly prickly, swords and spears came out. Zeus was hardly in the mood to deal with that particular unfortunate bit of offspring. No, Deimos would come to him.
It would be foolish for the child to refuse a summons from his King, but if he was as headstrong and defiant as his father, anything was possible. Zeus stood in the main receiving hall of his great palace on Olympus, waiting. He rather disliked being made to wait, but that would be something he would have to bring up with the boy depending on how delayed he was.