Feel Good About Your Relatives - A Glimpse at History's Most Dysfunctional Family

We mere mortals usually complain about our annoying relatives and our dysfunctional families. Our parents and grandparents would even go so far as to say that these kinds of problems never fight them in their time, according to them a lot more innocent and a lot easier. However, if your parents think that the past does not have its fair share of dysfunctional families and was a perfect picture, as it might be, they never read about Greek mythology.

Greek myth is filled with some of the weirdest, most controversial and oh-so-modern type of family that you always see in an episode of "The Simpsons" or "Party of Five." You have your Screwball, your children hot line, your promiscuous parents and what you have. Here are a few examples of signs that show that the past was not a whole lot different when it comes to situations at home:

- Hera, the fertile Mama: The Mother of the Gods, Hera, is often described as majestic, respectable and ultimately to Regal Olympus above her throne. However, this disguises the terrible state of their marriage with the daddy of all rock Zeus persecutors themselves. It is very often considered to torture their rivals lady with all her goddess powers could patterns. It is a miracle that Zeus ever cheats but see how she is so fertile that salad to eat and beat their hands on the ground can lead her to be pregnant. TSK, TSK. Men.

- Athena, The Daddy's Girl: Remember, your older sister, who act so high and mighty just because it was Dad's favorite? Well, that's exactly what Athena is like at times. She is Zeus's favorite daughter, mainly due to the fact that they jump out of his head at birth (ouch) after he swallowed, the Athena-wannabe mother, Metis, for fear they would be the birth of a child more than him. When she is not Bossy and a smart-aleck, but it is usually nice and really, really smart too.

- Poseidon, The Moody uncle: If you turn left into something as big as the sea, you must be a pretty powerful dude. And that is exactly what is Poseidon. He is so powerful in the fact that he sends earthquake to plague humanity, when he happier. Talk about a temper. Sailors victim made to him before they travel, which is probably a wise, what to do, taking into account what happened to Odysseus, when he on this God's bad side.

 

These are just a few of the colorful characters that litter the pages of Greek myth. So you see, you better not feel so bad about the situation at home seeing as how even gods and goddesses couldn't even get along with such colorful personalities most of the time. If you want the entire list of this dysfunctional family's members, just visit: http://crunkish.com/top-ten-greek-gods-and-goddesses

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