We call them ‘Olympians’ because they inhabit Mount Olympus in northern Greece. Like the current members of the House of Windsor, they constitute a dynasty.
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Achilles, the greatest warrior fighting on the Greek side in the Trojan War. Achilles’ father, Peleus, was mortal and his mother, Thetis, was a sea nymph.
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Aeneas, the founder of the Roman race. His father was a mortal called Anchises and his mother was Aphrodite.
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Fate operates independently of the gods. It’s an objective entity without any personality and, seemingly, without any agenda. It certainly acts without explanation.
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”. It was at a children’s home – for
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German: My name is Jean-Jacques
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” people who couldn’t stand you being free and running your life, and especially those who took you away from me. Thirty-five years later I still wonder if, secretly, y