The House of Atreus | A Curse in Four Generations
The curse did not begin with a murder. It began with a dinner party where the meat was the host's own son. Four generations separate Tantalus from Orestes, and across…
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Echoes from the Acropolis
The Antikythera Mechanism | The Object That Changed What We Know About the Greeks
In 1900 a group of sponge divers sheltering from a storm near the small island…
Thasos | The Island That Threw Away Its Shield and Kept Its Gold
The first Greek poet whose personal voice survives in any complete form, rather than filtered…
Five Greek Landscapes Where the Stay Is the Archaeology
There is a quality of attention that arrives when the place you are sleeping in…
The Ultimate Guide to Greek Olive Varieties | Discovering Greece’s Green Gold
The olive tree does not produce fruit for human beings. It produces fruit for the…
When Olympus Spoke to Japan | Greek Mythology and Its Eastern Recognition
In the decades after the Meiji Restoration of 1868, something remarkable happened in Japanese intellectual…
The Abduction of Europa | Divine Love, Cultural Legacy, and the Naming of a Continent
The continent is named for a Phoenician princess who was carried off by a bull.…
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The Stars Hidden in Homer’s Iliad | Astronomy, Myth, and the Celestial World of the Ancient Greeks
The Iliad contains a star map. Not a hidden one requiring decades of unconventional research to decode, not a secret cipher embedded in the Catalogue of Ships, but an explicit,…
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Crete vs Rhodes | Which Greek Island Should You Choose?
The question is not which island is better. It is which island is yours. Crete and Rhodes are both extraordinary, and their extraordinary qualities are so different from each other…
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Patmos | The Island That Declared Itself Sacred and Meant It
The voice came through a crack in the rock. St. John, known in Christian tradition…
The Theban Cycle | The Curse That Began Before Oedipus
The curse did not begin with Oedipus. It began with a chariot lesson. This is…
Salamis | The Battle That Turned on One Sentence
The oracle at Delphi told Athens to trust its wooden walls, and for several tense…
Marathon | The Run That Never Happened
He never ran from Marathon to Athens. This is where the record and the legend…
Thermopylae | What Actually Happened at the Hot Gates
The pass no longer exists. This is the fact that has to come first, because…
Opora | The Foods and Rituals That Close Greek Summer
The Greeks had a word for this exact moment, and the word was not summer.…