““And the naked lovers looked for a place where they could lay together & Aphrodite suggested that her bed was as good as any. And thus, Ares & Aphrodite, dropped their war games in favour of love games, to make love, not war. And as they kissed & coupled again & again in Aphrodite's bed, the Goddess of Love was impregnated with the lovely Harmonia since Harmony & Peace prevailed when people made love, not war. And that was also the time when Chaos fell on the lovers as the invisible netting rigged by Hephaestus over his wife's bed caught the lovers in its trap.””
![“The urge to fall [in love] was utterly new and made her [Athena] dizzy. He [Odysseus] could catch her and hold her up. She knew he could. If this is how Aphrodite feels every day, it's no wonder she's such an idiot .” quote by Kendare Blake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/117/kendare-blake-1667_every-day_the-urge-to-fall-in-love-was-utterly-new_2022806.jpg)
![“Nobody knew how it all began, neither Homer nor Hesiod. Nor Ovid nor Vergil. But it was said that at the beginning, there was Chaos, which meant confusion & disorder, & there was Eros, which meant love. And confusion & disorder were what all those who were smitten by love [Eros] felt at the…” quote by Nicholas Chong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8c6/nicholas-chong-4441_inspiration_nobody-knew-how-it-all-began-neither-hom_47453.jpg)
![“And during times such as those, when people wanted to get on with life, the Battle of the Sexes turned into all-out war. In the Battle of the Sexes fought by the Milesians, the men won.Whilst in the battle fought by the Malesians, the men lost.[INTRO]” quote by Nicholas Chong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2ee/nicholas-chong-4441_battle-of-the-sexes_and-during-times-such-as-those-when-peop_128723.jpg)
![“Sorry!I just couldn't control myself!" would be the excuse any virile man would offer to a girl he had just deflowered- after the event. He would offer the same excuse to Jupiter Foo. The King of the Gods would surely blow his top- like Vulcan, the Volcano God!Yak! Yak! Yak![MMT]” quote by Nicholas Chong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/812/nicholas-chong-4441_control-myself_sorry-i-just-couldn-t-control-myself-wou_216250.jpg)
![“It was told that during the wedding feast, Eris [Discordia], a daughter of Nyx, threw a golden apple into their midst, intended as a prize for the most beautiful amongst the three Goddesses at the table: Athena, Hera & Aphrodite, the daughter, wife & clandestine lover of Zeus, respectively. And…” quote by Nicholas Chong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e51/nicholas-chong-4441_children_it-was-told-that-during-the-wedding-feas_247774.jpg)
![“The natural mates of men were the Meliads[Ash Nymphs], who were Demi-Goddesses, & the Goddesses.Whilst it was believed that women could mate with animals & produce offspring, as Pasiphae did with a bull & begot the Minotaur & Theophane did with Poseidon in the form of a ram, & begot the Ram with…” quote by Nicholas Chong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5c8/nicholas-chong-4441_classical-mythology_the-natural-mates-of-men-were-the-meliad_1077643.jpg)
![“And thus, the Titans & titanesses made love without passion And so did the Gods & Goddesses. They only had Longing[Pothos], Love[Eros] & Reciprocal Love[Anteros] between them, but no Passion. And this fact accounted for the unimaginative number of offspring that some of them had. And the…” quote by Nicholas Chong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a3c/nicholas-chong-4441_classical-mythology_and-thus-the-titans-titanesses-made-love_1768220.jpg)