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Tales from Olympus
THE ARCHIVE
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Charon | The Ferryman Who Was Never in Homer
Charon is not in Homer. Read the eleventh book of the Odyssey and the dead…
The Soul That Remembers | Plato, Autumn and the Beauty That Was Always There
The soul knew everything before it was born. That is Plato's claim, or very nearly.…
Cerberus | The Hound Who Guarded the Way Out
Ask almost anyone what Cerberus does and the answer comes back at once. He guards…
Theophrastus and the Almond Tree | When Observation Defeated Theory
The almond tree gave Theophrastus a problem. Nothing about it was dramatic. No storm broke…
The Nekuia | How the Greeks Called the Dead Without Going to Find Them
Odysseus never entered the underworld. This is the most important and the least repeated fact…
Tantalus | The Mortal Who Served His Son to the Gods
Before the punishment, there was the privilege. That is the part most retellings hurry past…