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Tales from Olympus
THE ARCHIVE
Every reading, newest first
Persephone | The Transformation the Myth Was Actually About
The name Kore means simply the maiden. It is not a personal name the way…
Cassandra | The Gift Apollo Could Not Revoke and the Truth No One Would Hear
Apollo gave Cassandra the gift of prophecy and then ensured that no one would ever…
Aphrodite | Eros, the Judgment That Burned Troy, and the Two Goddesses in One
Plato understood that Aphrodite was not one goddess but two, and that the difference between…
Thetis | The Prophecy That Shaped Olympus and the Mother Who Could Not Save Her Son
The most politically consequential decision in the history of the Olympian order was not a…
The Entropy Engine of Lerna | Why the Second Labor Was Never Truly Won
The Hydra haunted the swamps of Lerna. For each of her heads that Heracles decapitated,…
The Five Ages of Hesiod | Why the Heroic Age Does Not Fit and What That Means
Hesiod interrupted his own argument. The Works and Days develops a cosmological scheme of human…