Greek myth - the offspring of deities

Some brief thoughts when it comes to the offspring of gods in greek myth...

By all appearances not even two gods may necessarily make fully divine offspring every time; see Zeus and Themis, where one set of their triplets is three nymphs (I think they’re the “greater” sort who’re immortal, but they’re still named nymphs, not goddesses).
And, there’s even indications, depending on what variations you use, that gods can make what’s basically “just a human” - Orpheus and Linus, for example. They’re usually considered the child of a Muse and a mortal man, but there’s several versions where they’re the sons of a Muse and Apollo, but that doesn’t make either of them more divine.

Offspring of a deity and a mortal doesn’t seem to get much from the divinity of their parent aside from a fancier pedigree. At most there might be some passive power (Orpheus’ singing, prophetic powers if they’re granted, not sure if Amphion’s magical music is because Zeus is his father or because Hermes gave him a MAGICAL golden lyre haha), or in general some greater-than-mortal strength, perhaps speed, perhaps some extra durability. Or beauty, that one’s possible too (Helen, the Trojan royal family).
(They can on the other hand still be divine enough they get a free apotheosis, see Pollux.) In short, there doesn’t seem to be any fancy magic powers...

Unless you’re Dionysus. I imagine it’s because he’s a mary sue and the most special son ever~ he got some extra shot of divinity by an extra incubation in Zeus’ thigh (and/or, if you count the Orphic/Bacchic mysteries, he was originally born a god).

Greek myth - Ganymede and his family

I got an ask on Tumblr for Ganymede's relationship to his family, in general and individually, and I got to delightfully go on a self-indulgent ramble for this. :)

In general, I think they were a rather harmonious family and pretty close-knit? Not everyone to the same degree, but as a baseline background “feeling”, yes. For Ganymede’s place in that (and my interpretation of him), I’d say it definitely helped that Ganymede was the youngest son and not the oldest one. It means he’s got less pressure on him to be the perfect heir apparent, though there are other positions a younger son in that culture would be expecting to take to help their older brother. I lean more towards a Luwian/Hittite culture, if not actually that pantheon, for Troy/the greater Troad, so as a younger son Ganymede has at least one military-leaning position he could/should have taken up at some point...
But since he is the youngest son and very well-loved, his father isn’t particularly upset at Ganymede being unlikely to be suitable for such a position (I always interpret him as being flat out terrible at fighting. Not a pacifist or anything, just shitty at it even if he would try to fight if threatened/in combat) - there are other places he can do good work for Troy, after all.

( Individual connections and some more thoughts underneath )

Greek myth - fic chronology

Below is a list in chronological order (updated as I post fics here) of when the fics in my Greek myth verse happens. Not that any of them are necessarily needed to be read in order as long as you know the myth/epics' plot for any given fic that deals with an actual myth, but I do keep things consistent between all of these. They are absolutely intended to be a single coherent universe in general, and things may be referenced between one fic and the other.

(Go here if you'd like to read a rough timeline of overall myth events, arranged somewhat after my own liking but in general trying to make (a coherent) sense of when myths happen.)
( List below )