How the Greek Mythology can be Connected with Recent Studies?

Since 2015 I started reading Greek Philosophy and I visited many times the museum of Acropolis, Athens. I found really amazing the Myth of Greek God Hephaestus. His mother Hera when was infant, decided to throw it in the sea because he was ugly. This little kid raised by two other women. Hephaestus was married with the
Goodness of beauty, Aphrodite but his marriage was a disaster, because he was violent to his wife.