[DF] Clerics

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by HuManBing

That's strange, I thought he was. He's portrayed as cowardly, boastful, and incompetent, even as he leads thousands of men to their doom - quite different from portrayals of Athena the other deity of war in Greek mythology.

He's portrayed that way by Athenian poets and playwrights who flattered their own patron deity while denigrating the patron of the foes. But the Spartans and the Thebans had a very different perspective on the god. However if I was going to divvy up the Olympian gods into Good and Evil for DF yeah I'd probably go with Ares being an Evil Dood. Although there are other alternatives. For example Moloch was used by the Phoenicians as a title/name for Kronos, and they supposedly sacrificed children as part of their Kronos worship. Cybele was another foreign deity with an iffy reputation. Then there's Typhon... Medusa probably started out as a rival deity whose religion lost out to Athena...