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Do Hera, Athena, Aphrodite, Hestia and Demeter represent different aspects of female life ? Also I wonder if Hera came south with the Olympians when the early Greek speaking tribes migrated down - they didn't just have male gods - I think they had both.

An interesting idea. You can live forever - like a god - if you don't know yourself. That un- self consciousness is way on the other side of Socrates and "know thyself" Narcissism gets lost in himself, separates from nature. Early people - the Minoans come to mind were in love with nature in a...

I like The Muse that sings through Homer. But they are all lovely. I saw a list once with attributes assigned to the "the delighter" is one I remember. I also heard a line "when the muses appeared you had a good time."

Fun drawings ! Nice color scheme. I've heard Perseus and Andromeda eventually found Mycenae

Just saw an exhibit of artifacts from Pompeii in the Boston Science Museum. I have been to Pompeii and this stuff was top shelf. I think it was from the museum in Naples where all thebest stuff was taken early on in the excavations. http://eyeofzeus.com/

I feel a bit bad for the Minotaur. Medusa I like for the sheer terror. Pegasus and the Centaurs are beautiful

Plato called Sappho the tenth muse

But Helen holds a knife too although it looks like Helen and Paris to me too. I have heard there is a on line tool that lets you search for images you imput, but I don't know.

Pandora and the story of the Ages are different. The Greeks even had other ones. They were either told in different locations or taken from other people and adapted.

Check out the Homeric Hymn to Demeter written down around 600 -500 BC I think. Its the first telling we have, although the story has to be much older. There are a bunch of Hymns and fragments to different gods, but they are not by Homer - were just tagged with the title.

Have you checked out the story of Heinrich Schliemann ? Its a great tale about the discovery of the Ancient Site - full of intrigue, smuggling etc. He and Sophia were quite a pair. There are famous pictures of her wearing a diadem, what Schielmann called Helen's gold. It was far older than what...

I like the Cyclops. He is such an uncivilized brute and yet there is this little tenderness I feel a bit sorry for. Asking the sheep where nobody is hiding for instance. Maybe its just the vividness of the description in Homer that grabs me. Dashing out the men's brains like puppies, overcome...

Hi, I tell stories from Ancient Greece - both Mythological and Historical - to school age kids. I love the Myths but I especially love Homer. It all seems so real and I love the reactions and the insight that kids, mostly 12 and 13 bring to the stories. Its very satisfying introducing them to...

Hi, I'm new here. It looks really fun and very interesting. I wonder. What are people's favorite descriptions of the gods in myths and poems or in your personal imagination? One of mine is of Athena from the Iliad "She leaped from the craggy heights and fell through the sky like a shooting star...

The Greeks invented theatre, critical history and the dialectic style of philosophy. They also started the Olympics (organized sports in front of crowds) the scientific method and greatly expanded the flexibility of the Phonecian alphabet by introducing vowels. Maybe its because they are the...

I agree the golden apple is great. I'm actually telling the story of Perseus to a bunch of 7th grade kids tomorrow. Its amazing what insight they bring to myths sometimes

I agree Hermes is pretty cool. I like Odysseus too - So human

What are you looking at? The myth and ways to think about it The historic background (The Minoans on Crete and the palace of Knossos) Comparing different tellings The way the Ancients might have thought about it (the Greeks who fought the battle of Marathon thought that the spirit of Theseus...

The Iliad and the Odyssey are so different in some ways. The Iliad has such rich language and visual imagery - the similes are fantastic. The description of the Trojan camp fires on the Plain of Troy is absolutely beautiful. The whole shape of the story and the tender moments mixed between the...