I know, I know, this is nothing new to most of you guys, but I need to rant real quick.
So in God Games Athena asks Zeus for permission to help Odysseus get home and Zeus wants to make this all game. He is all cocky about it, too, of course.
So the game he decides on to make Athena fail is... A debate. And not just a debate with anyone either, it's a debate with THE OLYMPIANS! The people she knows best of all!
Let me make a few things clear. Athena, the Godess of WISDOM AND STRATEGY has to win A DEBATE in order to get what she wants.
And her strategic skills show off in this as well in EVERY SONG with every opponent.
For Apollo she knows that he only half cares about the whole thing. He isn't really involved, so he pulls an argument that Athena can easily override.
For Hephaestus she appeals to his sense of logic. He ist the only one who made a fair argument about not helping Odysseus, because of an actual choice he made.
For Aphrodite and Ares she is very passionate and argues with emotion, because love and anger are very strong emotions.
Lastly Hera, who is canonly a very prideful Godess. Athena wents along with Hera's pace and vibe, dropping the crucial argument of Odysseus never cheating on his wife at just the right time to convince.
OF COURSE SHE WOULD WIN! It's not even a surprise, yet Zeus has the audacity to be angry he lost a game he made way too easy to begin with.
If he really wanted to win he should have made her argue Poseidon or Helios.
