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Beautiful Men And Women In Greco-Greek Mythology

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Throughout mythology, there are various stories of infidelity, sexual assault, sexual orientation, and other forms of deviance. However, this was never questioned throughout the literature, a character was never discriminated for cheating on his/her spouse, being with the same sex, or for taking advantage of another individual. In this paper, I plan to discuss certain examples where these incidents took place and why was it okay for the incidents to occur. Beautiful men and women are described in great detail throughout Greco-Roman mythology. Women were typically depicted as having a tiny waist, full breasts, long hair and full hips. While men are seen as tall, lean, muscular, with a great head of hair and often a thick beard. Genders were either very feminized or masculinized, and gender roles were very prominent during this time as well. Zeus is one of the primary examples of adultery in mythology. He is married to Hera, Queen of the gods and goddess of marriage. Despite of Zeus’s marriage, he had multiple other relationships with various characters. It was very common for Zeus to transform into an eagle, bull, or another creature and then capture his young prey. Zeus’s sexual orientation is very versatile throughout mythology, however he showed preference to female sexuality. Zeus raped Leda, daughter of the Aetolian king, Thestius, in the guise of a swan; raped Danae, a princess of Argos, disguised as the rain, and raped Ganymede, a male mortal. Adultery is also a

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