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Palisades are loosing anyway, now you can choose between getting the lumber for making a better one next turn, or wasting material on a temple.
 
Kalrotix said:
Also, have we a better idea of where de are ? I read that is was somewhere in africa, latter spain and after south of France. All this options a good but i would have an idea.
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What you know so far:
- you are on a western coast
- the climate and vegetation is comparable to Greece
- you are on a major river, though it's not that well suited for shipping when not swelled by rain
- you are west of Greece and nobody knows these lands, though that's not saying much as the city-states trade mostly with the middle-east and the barbarois from the north-west maintain the routes there
 
Azel said:
What you know so far:
- you are on a western coast
- the climate and vegetation is comparable to Greece
- you are on a major river, though it's not that well suited for shipping when not swelled by rain
- you are west of Greece and nobody knows these lands, though that's not saying much as the city-states trade mostly with the middle-east and the barbarois from the north-west maintain the routes there
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Thanks. Well so i suppose that we aren't in africa. More in Spain or France.
 
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Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Nov 27, 2018 at 11:57 AM, finished with 232 posts and 27 votes.
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FortTell said:
Then they weaved tapestries. Athena approved of Arachne's skill, but disapproved of the content of the tapestry (it was disrespectful to Olympian gods). So she tore the tapestry and hit Arachne with a stick.
Then Arachne weaved a rope and tried to suicide. Athena took her out and said: "Nope, you will live and you will weave." And then Arachne was a spider.
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How on earth is judging a weaving competition, in a biased manner, on the basis of subjective content, in your own favour at all considered reasonable?
 
Deliste said:
How on earth is judging a weaving competition, in a biased manner, on the basis of subjective content, in your own favour at all considered reasonable?
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It's fun? At least if you are a Greek god(dess) and bored.
Edit: Also, it teaches a lesson - don't piss of those mightier than you, even when they are dicks. Now try and imagine how that translates to nobility and !nobility. If you feel inclined, you may replace 'nobility' with 'powerful'.
 
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Deliste said:
How on earth is judging a weaving competition, in a biased manner, on the basis of subjective content, in your own favour at all considered reasonable?
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How on earth could you be stupid enough to piss entities who can destroy you with just with just a thouht ? Greek gods are feared and it's for a good resaons, they can help us you and grant you success but also doom you. You don't search problems with peoples so powerfuls. Greek gods are like humanity they are reasonnales when it convice them or when they are between egals.
 
When I think of Athena I also think of how she cursed Medusa for being raped by Poseidon in her temple.

I'm hard-pressed to think of a greek deity that isn't petty and spiteful when it suits them.
 
Duesal said:
When I think of Athena I also think of how she cursed Medusa for being raped by Poseidon in her temple.

I'm hard-pressed to think of a greek deity that isn't petty and spiteful when it suits them.
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To be fair that is from Ovid. The original mythos had Medusa having consensual sex with Poseidon (hey look divinity is beautiful) in her temple and Athena was not having it. Poseidon and Athena really don't like each other all things considered
 
Wasn't there a saying of a woman spurned and hell? I guess that goes also for a wife made a laughingstock ...
 
MTB said:
It's fun? At least if you are a Greek god(dess) and bored.
Edit: Also, it teaches a lesson - don't piss of those mightier than you, even when they are dicks. Now try and imagine how that translates to nobility and !nobility. If you feel inclined, you may replace 'nobility' with 'powerful'.
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Kalrotix said:
How on earth could you be stupid enough to piss entities who can destroy you with just with just a thouht ? Greek gods are feared and it's for a good resaons, they can help us you and grant you success but also doom you. You don't search problems with peoples so powerfuls. Greek gods are like humanity they are reasonnales when it convice them or when they are between egals.
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Neither of these responses explain how this makes Athena reasonable, it just reinforces that she's a bitch like the rest of them, something I'm certainly not disputing.
It might be smart of me not to argue with a known petty asshole, but that doesn't make assholish behaviour reasonable.
 
Deliste said:
How on earth is judging a weaving competition, in a biased manner, on the basis of subjective content, in your own favour at all considered reasonable?
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Athena gave Arachne ample warnings that such situations usually end badly for mortals. Then she commended Arachne's work, and did not actually judge the contest as a win for herself. Tearing the work may have been petty, but honestly showing somebody a work depicting the affairs of their father, uncle and half-brother (Zeus, Poseidon and Dyonises respectively) is not really civil.

Edit: Compare to Artemis. Hunter Aktheon saw Artemis and her nymphs swimming naked. He got turned into a deer and Artemis made his own hunting dogs kill him.
Tiresias saw Athena swimming naked. She blinded him but gave him a prophetic gift and the ability to keep his sentience intact even after death, wihch Tiresias used to help a couple of Greek heroes (Odysseus and somebody else).

EditEdit: Athena is also the patron god of various craftsmen and is friends with Hephaestus. Honoring her plays to our colony's strength - skilled craftsmen.
 
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Now, among venting anger it might have been intended as deterrence - for the mortal to say 'no' to Zeus1​. Or kill herself after immediately? Beg Hera for forgiveness?
1​that would work splendidly.
 
Vote closed. Tame the Land has it.
Adhoc vote count started by Azel on Nov 27, 2018 at 3:25 PM, finished with 249 posts and 27 votes.
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