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Tales from Olympus
THE ARCHIVE
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When the Gods Flew | Aeschylus, the Mechane, and the Theology of Flight in Greek Tragedy
Somewhere in the Theatre of Dionysus on the southern slope of the Acropolis in Athens,…
The Flood of Deucalion | The Myth in Which Humanity Was Made from Stone
When Deucalion and Pyrrha needed to repopulate the earth, they were told to throw their…
The Sphinx | The Monster Whose Weapon Was a Question
The Sphinx is the only monster in the Greek mythological tradition whose weapon is a…
The Kouretes and the Idaean Dactyls | The Armed Dancers Who Saved the King of the Gods
The Kouretes were dancing when Zeus was born. Not dancing for pleasure, not dancing for…
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.…
Lucian’s True History | The Second-Century Sci-Fi Odyssey That Invented a Genre
The first science fiction novel was written in the second century CE by a Syrian.…