Some of you may recall the old Chiffon margarine commercial’s warning that “It is not nice to fool Mother Nature.” Mother Nature had nothing on the Goddess Circe who was the original liberated woman.

A Greek coin showing Pegasus and the goddess, Athena ... dreadful moment Perseus was tempted to look up at her to meet her eyes but with all his strength he kept his head turned away as Athena ...

Nothing more to do than close your eyes and wait for the wind to sweep ... that the purpose of the Ganymede story as a piece of mythology was to give a sort of divine legitimacy to the ancient Greek ...