Contrast the relationships Aphrodite/Venus has with males, human or divine, with those that Athene has. Do you think Athene's approach was more "successful"?

The very nature of the birth of Athene and Aphrodite serves as a blueprint for their relationships with males. Athene is a parthenogenetic creation, emerging full-grown and fully-armoured from her father Zeus's head. She is of the mind, action that follows careful reflection of cause and effect. Aphrodite was born out of the semen that surrounded her father's severed genitals after Kronos had thrown them in the sea. She, in splendid nakedness, is "the ripe …

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