{"id":1418283,"date":"2019-12-19T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1418283"},"modified":"2019-12-19T10:14:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T15:14:51","slug":"the-10-worst-punishments-in-greek-mythology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/the-10-worst-punishments-in-greek-mythology\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10 Most Brutal Punishments in Greek Mythology, Ranked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/62819greekmythologyrankedMAIN.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Greek mythology, the punishment hardly ever fit the crime. It would be like your mom punishing you for stealing a cookie from the cookie jar by chucking you into an active volcano. Not everyone in Greek mythology was innocent, of course, but a lot of them were guilty of nothing more than greed, hubris, and throwing up a middle finger in the general direction of the gods. You&#8217;d think a stern talking-to would be sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For me personally, the worst part of being punished by the gods would be the idea that Athena thinks less of me. But this isn&#8217;t about me or my compulsive need to be liked by virtually everyone. No, this is about the shockingly over-the-top punishments those wacky Greek gods were always dishing out. Here are ten of those punishments, ranked from \u201cnot so bad, comparatively\u201d to \u201cthe stuff of nightmares.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Greek mythology, the punishment hardly ever fit the crime. It would be like your mom punishing you for stealing a cookie from the cookie jar by chucking you into an active volcano. Not everyone   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[628,5161,1805,17432,25017,1764],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418283"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442052,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418283\/revisions\/1442052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}