Current mood:

curious

myth question
i asked this over on neokoroi but there are lots of faboo brains here who ain't there, so i'm asking again with apologies to those who are seeing it twice.
while working on class stuff, these questions come floating up. i don't think i'm going to include this in the lessons (i have to keep whacking myself over the head with reminders that these folks are here for classical mythology, not for theological minutiae) but the questions are insistent enough that for my ownself i'd like a little help.

i'm working to unpack a few different myths these days, and as usual my cumbersome brain doesn't seem agile enough for the task. i'd love to hear what others have to say on some of these.
the conflict between hera and artemis during the trojan war. they have quite a blowup over apollon declining to fight poseidon. what are some of the deeper resonances to this, beyond who's on troy's side and who on greece's?
next, in hero mythology we often find that the overtones to the tales are psychological. many heroes like herakles have big adventures and sorrows but grand apotheoses at the end, or theseus who dies old and respected even if he's not always an exemplary human. but how about the guys who end up dying terrible lonely sad deaths, bellerophon and jason? what is it that we can learn and glean from their sordid ends?
thanks in advance!
khairete
suz