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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Daniel Butler: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [qb]It's been a while since I've read the Greek myths but I'm pretty sure there's some eye plucking and mother/son ickyness in there too.[/qb][/QUOTE]That's from the play "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles. Hence "Oedipus Complex" meaning a desire to take your father's place with your mother (as coined by Freud). In the play, though, neither Oedipus nor his mother knew they were mother and son; when they found out, the mother killed herself and Oedipus plucked out his own eyes. However, the myths of the Olympians and Titans are interlaced with incest; Zeus and Hera, for example, are both brother and sister and husband and wife. I think there's a lot more of those kinds of things that go on. It's like the Greek gods didn't have the same taboos as humans do. And neither do the Cylons...I wonder if the "Athena" callsign is [i]entirely[/i] arbitrary? (But then, what about "Apollo"...) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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