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Tales from Olympus
THE ARCHIVE
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A Sword’s Edge of Truth | The Amazons in Greek Myth, Scythian Archaeology, and Ancient Art
The Amazons fought Achilles and he wept over the body of the queen he had…
Orpheus | The Musician Who Moved the Dead and Why He Turned Back
His name, according to one reading of its ancient roots, means the bereft one. This…
Passionate and Tragic | The Unfulfilled Loves That Shaped Greek Mythology
The Greek mythological tradition understood desire as a force of transformation. This is the claim…
The Celestial Arch | Iris, the Rainbow, and the Path Between the Worlds
The word that the ancient Greeks used for the rainbow and for the divine messenger…
Ares | Unloved Son of Zeus, Most Fearsome Olympian
No Greek city built Ares a great temple. This is the fact that most completely…
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…