{"id":464,"date":"2023-07-09T03:49:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T03:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/?p=464"},"modified":"2023-07-09T03:49:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T03:49:19","slug":"queen-aphrodite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/09\/queen-aphrodite\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Aphrodite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/queen_dite1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/queen_dite1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-461\" width=\"375\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/queen_dite1.jpg 356w, https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/queen_dite1-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Queen Aphrodite <\/em>and the Sovereign <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My #Xena story covers not only events on Earth, but in Olympus as well. Aphrodite finds herself the queen of Olympus. This is not the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time! On #HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys Aphrodite\u2019s alternate self in Stranger in a Strange Land is not the goddess of love (that\u2019s Ares), but the queen of Olympus. Hercules\u2019 alt-self is The Sovereign. I love this concept because Earth\u2019s Herc is defined by friendship, but the Sovereign believes he needs no one (one of the meanings of the word \u201csovereign\u201d). Queen Aphrodite is being forced to wed him to\u00a0 save Zeus\u2019s life. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/queen_dite3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"355\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/queen_dite3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/queen_dite3.jpg 355w, https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/queen_dite3-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Xena and Queen Aphrodite <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Her wedding dress is black, as if she\u2019s in mourning. This is a nice coincidence, because the Queen Aphrodite in my post-Motherhood story is still dressed in her black mourning gown, in honor of the fallen Olympians killed by #Xena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Motherhood_dite.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"359\" height=\"269\" src=\"http:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Motherhood_dite.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Motherhood_dite.jpg 359w, https:\/\/typesandpatterns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Motherhood_dite-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Aphrodite in mourning, in Motherhood<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She\u2019s also mourning her old role as simply the goddess of Love. Running Olympus on your own is not all it\u2019s cracked up to be. We never actually get to see her in this role on the show because we don\u2019t see her again until The God You Know, in which it turns out she\u2019s under the thumb of up-and-coming god Caligula. So, in a way, the 2 queens have a lot in common! Aphrodite doesn\u2019t get her godhood back until You Are There, at the same time as Ares, &amp; when we see her next, in Many Happy Returns, she\u2019s back to her cheerful self,\u00a0 ruling Olympus with her brother Ares sharing the burden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My #Xena story covers not only events on Earth, but in Olympus as well. Aphrodite finds herself the queen of Olympus. This is not the 1st time! On #HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys Aphrodite\u2019s alternate self in Stranger in a Strange Land is not the goddess of love (that\u2019s Ares), but the queen of Olympus. 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