I agree with most of that, except for this: Theseus clearly didn’t give a flying fuck about angering the gods, because right after kidnapping Helen, he went into the underworld to try to kidnap Persephone, the wife of the Lord of the Dead. You can’t expect me to acknowledge that Theseus was devout enough to think a fever dream was a sign to abandon Ariadne and that she’d be fine, but not afraid enough of the gods to try to kidnap a goddess out from under the nose of the lord of hell.
If he’s a demigod or otherwise high in the favour of some god or other, he might be less scared of particular gods. Hades wasn’t very popular among his brothers, so I could see Theseus being bolder with him.
More significant is the human factor of who made up the respective stories and how they wanted to frame him: one as brave against Hades, the other as devout towards the god of parties. His legend won’t have been written by a single author trying to create a consistent character.
I agree with most of that, except for this: Theseus clearly didn’t give a flying fuck about angering the gods, because right after kidnapping Helen, he went into the underworld to try to kidnap Persephone, the wife of the Lord of the Dead. You can’t expect me to acknowledge that Theseus was devout enough to think a fever dream was a sign to abandon Ariadne and that she’d be fine, but not afraid enough of the gods to try to kidnap a goddess out from under the nose of the lord of hell.
If he’s a demigod or otherwise high in the favour of some god or other, he might be less scared of particular gods. Hades wasn’t very popular among his brothers, so I could see Theseus being bolder with him.
More significant is the human factor of who made up the respective stories and how they wanted to frame him: one as brave against Hades, the other as devout towards the god of parties. His legend won’t have been written by a single author trying to create a consistent character.
Either way, he’s a cunt.