Ben Kane's The Forgotten Legion

How the G Got Its Tail

Which Greek Hero Are You?

Wordless Wednesday - Guess What
CC Flickr User Alun Salt. Extra credit: Where is it? Give up? Click the image for the answer. Then, look at the article's references for a link to a new article by the photographer, Alun Salt: The Astronomical Orientation of Ancient Greek Temples. Wordless Wednesda

Learn About the Cornucopia
The cornucopia, literally 'horn of plenty,' adorns the Thanksgiving table thanks to Greek mythology. The horn may originally have belonged to a goat, but Zeus used to drink from it as a baby. The story of Zeus' childhood says that his mother, Rhea, sent him to a cave on the island of Crete for safe-keeping in order to prevent his father,

Thesmophoria - Greek Thanksgiving
When the Underworld god Hades abducted the young maiden Persephone, her mother, Demeter, wouldn't feed the world, and so, winter came upon the land. When Persephone was restored, an elated Demeter gave the gift of agriculture to mankind. The goddess Demeter was called Thesmophoros because she gave certain thesmoi 'laws' to mankind, and the holiday of Themophoria honors her. Learn more about the unusual customs of the ancient Greek fall festival known as Thesmophoria.SeeThesmophoria -

Myth Monday - Medea, a Victim and Victimizer
When John Frobisher, the underling minister in the BBC science fiction Torchwood Children of Earth, takes a gun to his two daughters, and then his wife, and, after a pause, himself, in a scene set behind doors (rather like the offstage murders in Medea), the viewer's response contains pity rather than the outrage we all tend to feel at Medea's murderous action in Euripides' Medea. Frobisher is saving the children from what he considers a fate worth than death. Medea's motives are less pure, but maybe she is saving the children, too.

C.S. Lewis Died on This Historic Day
On Friday, November 22, 1963, C.S. Lewis died. While Lewis is known for his children's Narnia series and writings on Christianity, he was a scholar trained in the Classics. Among my favorite works by Lewis is Till We Have Faces, which is a retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche, which comes from