Chapter 74

• Aphrodite begins to speak.
• " Athena became pregnant by Apollo. They fell in love in secret and carried on their romance in silence so that Zeus wouldn't find out. Athena is the Greek goddess of wisdom, strategy, arts, justice, and skill. I can say that she is one of the main divinities of the Greek pantheon, also being one of the twelve Olympian gods. She is the daughter of Zeus and Metis."
• » Athena, who had decided to remain perpetually a virgin, is tempted by the beauty of Apollo and they break that virginity, resulting in her becoming pregnant immediately. When Athena finds out about her pregnancy, she turns to me " Aphrodite points to herself with great sorrow. When the first seed of Hades, my first son, is born, he is stillborn on the same day that Athena gives birth to her child. We had agreed that I would adopt him, but I never imagined that my first child would be born lifeless."