Sparta in History & Today
Mythological Sparta is unlike the Sparta of Classical history. Early Sparta enjoyed a flourishing cultural and artistic life, but in the late seventh century bc this changed. Fearing defeat …
Category: Greek Mythology
Homeric Hades
In the Iliad, none of the action takes place in Hades, but we do learn about it. Sited beside the River Styx’s icy waterfall and protected by a grim …
Final Conditions Fulfilled
Four last conditions controlled Troy’s fate. The first was that Achilles son, Neoptolemus, a brave but brutal warrior, be summoned from Scyros. Neoptolemus helped in the fulfilment of the …
Ithaca in History & Today
There are two Ithacas – one the modern island of Ithaki, the other the Ithaca of the Odyssey. Many have tried to reconcile them, for, if Mycenae and Troy …
Haides & Persephone
Haides, Zeus and Poseidon, the mighty triad, ruled creation. In the Iliad, Poseidon outlines the arrangement: We are three brothers, born of Cronus and Rhea – Zeus, myself, and …
Mycenae & the Curse on Agamemnon’s Family
It never leaves this house, the chorus, chanting its cabbala in unison, cacophonous, words so diabolic – and they’ve drunk human blood. And so their power is growing and …
Apollo & Hyacinthus
In the Eurotas valley and its surrounding mountains the divine seems palpable. Mythology tells that at Amyclae god did once walk with human when Apollo fell in love with …
Sparta & the Haunts of Helen
The most beautiful of all Spartan woman had once been the most ugly. What happened was this: her parents considered her appearance a disaster, so, pondering her unappealing …