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Aristides continues with Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Tammuz/Adonis, Rhea, Atys, and Kore.
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Apollo is represented as changeable, armed, musical, and giving oracles for reward; Aristides again asks why deity would need payment.
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Artemis is treated through her hunting mythology and independent mountain wandering.
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Aphrodite is represented through stories of adultery, Ares, Adonis/Tammuz, grief, and descent toward Hades.
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Tammuz is remembered as hunter, lover, and victim of violent death.
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Rhea is connected with Atys and lamentation over a mortal lover.
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Kore is carried away by Pluto and cannot rescue herself.
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Aristides' point is not to reconstruct these cults sympathetically; it is a polemical test of their own stories.
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Beings who must be rescued, mourn lovers they cannot restore, or suffer seizure cannot be identical with the unchanging Ruler over life.