I would put this in the Aphrodite & Antheia post, but nah. I don't feel like it and I want to yap about her a little
So I fixed up her dress because she & Aphrodite were the first designs I did and didn't clean up the sketches. I still liked the outfit so I just cleaned it up. I changed the blue color to white and made her accent colors just gold because I couldn't find the place for the blue anywhere. Plus, she's associated with honey and myrrh plants (and roses & myrtle like the other Kharites). And I gave her little leaf antennae things for fun (like Aglaea's horns kinda. She was gonna have moth/butterfly wings in place of her ears but she already had a snake so it was getting confusing lol) The snake is a garden snake because she's a Goddess of flowers, swamps, gardens, & marshes. I just thought it'd be cute. I just gave her similar ears to Aglaea, but it may change idk.
Antheia is very close with Aphrodite and is her attendant, working together in the works of love. She'd also adorn Aphrodite in flowers to make her more irresistible. So she's associated with love as well as marriage, since her name is also an epitaph that Aphrodite and Hera have. Antheia is also close with Dionysus because she would follow him through vineyards as he worked, growing flowers.
I think she's underrated (I say as this is the second time I've drawn her-) and that her bonds with certain gods could be talked about more
I've said this before, but when I first got into mythology when younger, I only learned of Aphrodite. And I learned of Antheia, and thought that she was a lover of Aphrodite (because everyone she interacted with she got with, basically is the logic I had when younger). She obviously is not, but for my younger self's sake, I like to say they're best friends in a QPR, but I don't really take much thought into it so
Anyway, onto the hate with Aglaea because I'm tired. Basically, my idea was that Antheia is salty at Aglaea because she married Hephaestus. She's biased towards Aphrodite, and is bitter towards him since the divorce, and even more upset at Aglaea for marrying him after. It's nothing truly hateful, it's more for me cause I found it funny. I like to think they still bicker, even after Aphrodite & Hephaestus get over it.
