Johnlock (Sherlock BBC)

At the same time, in the land of the gods—if the concept of linear time can truly be said to apply—there came a night in which the nine Muses foregathered on Olympus from their mountains of Helicon and Parnassus, and stayed up late entertaining the gods with their sweet singing. The performance was, as always, of the very highest calibre; and the gods who heard it were moved to tears of joy and thoughts of love, as is normally the case on such occasions. And as chance would have it, after their performance Aphrodite sat down to socialize with grey-eyed Athene and several of the Muses—who were talking science at the time. But biology too is a science, and as the group became ever more giggly on the nectar of the gods, the conversation grew increasingly raunchy and explicit… and all the participants extremely, well, aroused. And before she went off to bed, so turned on was she by all the lovely braininess around her that great Aphrodite wound her warm and fragrant arms around every one of the Muses and the normally very virginal Athene, one after another, pressed her divine charms up against theirs, and kissed every single one of them on the mouth. With tongue.

Now, god or mortal, when one is on the receiving end of such shattering attention from the Goddess of Love herself, one must deal with the impact of such awful power somehow. This being the case, Athene and at least four of her half-sisters the Muses—maybe more—thereupon wound up becoming most profoundly intimate with one another (though later on they would claim that the discussion they were continuing was strictly intellectual in nature). And as a result, in the fullness of time, they bore a son.

The logistics of this parturition, while interesting, are not germane, and are in any case subject to EU privacy restrictions.

Aphrodite had declared in the wake of her confabulation with the Muses and grey-eyed Athene that brainy was the new sexy.