Aglaulus
Aglaulus
Mental characteristics
Personal history
When Zeus married Aphrodite off to Hephaestus, the Olympian of Love blessed Aglaulus with the charms which would keep Ares occupied. It was meant as a pacification, a method of keeping Ares away from Olympus, for a while. For Aglaulus, she got the honour of being bedded by a god, one she desired and laid offerings before Aphrodite's Temple to seek. She would mother divine children, and she would be blessed beyond her sisters.
It worked, for a while. Ares saw Aglaulus, and for a few months, he was relatively contented. Their daughter was born soon after. The child was given the name Alcippe Olympia, and once Alcippe came into Ares' life, the love he felt for Aglaulus dwindled.
Instead, Alcippe became the joy of Ares' eyes.
In compensation for Ares' disinterest, Aphrodite offered a dalliance with Hermes in exchange, and Aglaurus accepted. Her son Ceryx was born nine months later.
Yet, all was not perfect in Aglaurus' life. At the sight of the half-serpent half-human infant Erichthonius, given in a box to her and her sisters by Athene Minerva Olympia, Aglaurus and her sisters went insane. They threw themselves off the Acropolis.
"I told the humans not to open the box. It is not my responsibility to enforce their will beyond warning them against the course of action."
"Did you remember nothing from Pandora!?
"Eh! Benefit of the doubt... it didn't work, I grant you."
Athene & Caleb in Ginnungagap by Sapha Burnell
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