The Argonautica | The First Great Journey and the Woman Who Made It Possible
Homer called it "known to all." This single phrase, appearing in the Odyssey as a passing reference to the Argo as pasi melousa, known to everyone, celebrated by all, is…
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The Trojan War | The Story That Made Everything Else Possible
It is the myth that leads to the archaeology. This observation, made by the British…
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She was buried with three swords. The archaeologists who first excavated the shaft graves of…
Soutzoukakia Smyrneika | A Greek Poem on a Plate and the One Ingredient That Transforms the Flavor
Smyrna is now Izmir, and the people who cooked this dish in Smyrna are gone…
Paros | The Island the Parthenon Was Built From
The marble of Paros is not simply white. It is translucent. The optical property that…
Before the Olympians | Travelling the Sacred Geography of the Titans
The map of sacred Greece has two layers. The visible layer is the one that…
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The Sphinx | The Monster Whose Weapon Was a Question
The Sphinx is the only monster in the Greek mythological tradition whose weapon is a question. Not claws, though she had those. Not the serpent's venom or the Hydra's regenerating…
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The Argonautica | The First Great Journey and the Woman Who Made It Possible
Homer called it "known to all." This single phrase, appearing in the Odyssey as a passing reference to the Argo as pasi melousa, known to everyone, celebrated by all, is…
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The Zagori Villages of Epirus | Where Stone Bridges Lead to Another Century
There is a specific silence in the Pindus Mountains that exists nowhere else in Greece.…
Brauron and the Arkteia | The Girls Who Had to Be Bears Before They Could Be Wives
Every Athenian girl, before she was permitted to marry, had to become a bear. Not…
Hermes | The God Who Has No Territory Because His Territory Is Every Crossing
Every other Olympian has a fixed domain. Zeus governs the sky and the divine household.…
Aristotle | The Philosopher Who Thought Happiness Was the Wrong Word
The most important word in Aristotle's ethics has been mistranslated for two thousand years. Eudaimonia…
The Peloponnese | The Peninsula That Contains Five Thousand Years
The peninsula is named for a man whose flesh Tantalus served to the gods. Pelops,…
The Trojan War | The Story That Made Everything Else Possible
It is the myth that leads to the archaeology. This observation, made by the British…