1
Aristides continues with Hephaistos, Hermes, Asklepios, Ares, Dionysos, and Herakles.
2
Hephaistos is described as lame and dependent upon craft for provision; Aristides asks why a self-sufficient divine being would be represented as needy.
3
Hermes is remembered through myths of theft, gain, magic, athletic cunning, and bodily limitation.
4
Asklepios, though a healer, is said to be struck by lightning and killed; Aristides asks how one unable to preserve himself becomes ultimate healer of others.
5
Ares is a warrior, jealous, desirous of what belongs to others, and caught in adultery.
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Dionysos is associated with intoxication, madness, seizure of women, wilderness frenzy, and death.
7
Herakles, though praised for defeating evildoers, is also said to fall into madness, kill his own children, and perish in fire.
8
Aristides' method is repetitive by design: every figure is tested against the attributes of the incorruptible Creator established at the beginning.
9
Whatever is needy, defeated, morally disordered, or mortal fails the test.