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 …
Category: Greek Mythology
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 …
The First Wanderings of Odysseus
Following the sack of Troy, Odysseus sailed with twelve ships to the land of the Cicones. Here he sacked the city and enslaved its women, but, not for the …
Ephyra in History & Today
Pausanias identifies Ephyra as the inspiration for Homer’s Hades in the Odyssey. ‘Here’, he writes, ‘is the Acherousian Lake, the River Acheron and the noxious stream called the Cocytus. …
Troy: A City Contested by Gods & Men
And did you then turn traitor, Zeus, betray your temple here at Troy, your altar sweet with incense the wisps of myrrh that rose in fragrance to the sky, …
Odysseus’ Wandering Continues
The voyage became a nightmare of increasingly surreal encounters. Visiting Aeolus, King of the Winds, Odysseus was given a leather bag in which were confined every wind except the …
The Sack of Troy
The war might still have dragged on indefinitely had not Epeius conceived an ingenious plan: to build a massive fir-wood horse, conceal hand-picked Greeks inside it, and cause it …