As I’m doing my annual Leafing Through Catalogs, I’m flipping through the Design Toscano one (“Historical European Reproductions for Home and Garden”) when I come across this: a “Gods of Greek Mythology” chess set.
Zeus is the King, of course.
And Aphrodite is the Queen.
Now, never mind that she’s his daughter (those sorts of things rarely mattered in Greek mythology), but don’t you think that, say, Hera would have something to say about this? And given her history for “getting even” at slights, and taken in the context of all those myths where mortals torque off one or another god to their everlasting unhappiness …
… well, I’m not sure that buying this particular chess set would be a real smart move.
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