Classical Mythology/Fridge


 * Fridge Logic, Fridge Horror: The story of King Midas plays on this trope: "OK, yippee, everything you touch turns to gold. Now go try to eat your dinner."
 * Fridge Brilliance: The children of Ares (war, combat, bloodlust) and Aphrodite (beauty, sex) are: Eros (love), Anteros (requited love), Himeros (uncontrollable immediate desire), Pothos (longing desire), Harmonia (harmony), Phobos (fear), Deimos (horror/terror) and Adrestia (revenge); which are all of the emotions that can happen in a relationship between the foul-tempered abusive jock and the pretty girl. The ancient Greeks understood relationships.
 * Norse gods are almost always depicted as tall and Nordic looking, to the point where people actually had a fit when the movie version of Thor had a black Heimdall. So, how come the Greek gods are never depicted as short, dark, and hairy?
 * Because not all Greeks look like that.
 * According to Hesiod, the Golden Age ended when Prometheus gave fire to mankind. Afterwards was the Silver Age, followed by the Bronze Age, which ended with The Great Flood in the time of Deucalion and Pyrrha. Considering the Deucalion was Prometheus's son, and Pyrrha was the daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora, this means that the Silver and Bronze Ages combined lasted for only one generation.
 * Fridge Brilliance, Fridge Horror: Scylla, Charybdis and Medusa and the sisters all used to be women that were turned into monster. While unfair, why they might have been turned into monsters is linked to Pandora. The Gods created Pandora to bring evil upon men after Prometheus returned fire to them. As a result, the monstrous forms that they were turned into represented the "evil" in their hearts, as descendants of Pandora. - saiyan5ninetail
 * Fridge Logic: Both Semele and Psyche were forbidden to look upon the faces of the gods sharing their bed. When Zeus appeared to Semele, she burst into flames. When Psyche peeked at Eros, she ended up only chastised. Why did one manage to survive, but not both?
 * Semele asked Zeus to appear in front of her in his true divine form and her mortal body couldn't bear standing by such a power. Psyche looked at Eros in human form while he was sleeping,
 * How does anyone know about Medusa if everyone who looks at her in the eyes turn to stone?
 * Two people happen upon Medusa. One looks her in the eyes and turns to stone. The other sees her only from an angle, possibly from behind, but sees his friend turn to stone from looking her in the face. The second guy runs away before Medusa stares him in the face, and goes on to spread the story.