Tag: Greek and Roman Mythology

Actaeon

Mar 3, 2025

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Mark

in Ancient Rome, Everything Latin, Greek and Roman Mythology, Greek Mythology, Poetry, Roman Empire, Roman Republic, Ted Hughes

Praise for Tales from Ovid: ‘A breathtaking book…To compare his versions with the Latin is to be awestruck again and again by the range and ingenuity of his poetic intelligence…He rescues the old gods and goddesses from the classical dictionaries and gives them back their terror. There should be a copy of his book in…
Hades: The Mythological Underworld

Sep 20, 2024

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Mark

in Everything Latin, Greek and Roman Mythology, Greek history, Greek Mythology

Cerberus who guarded Hades To tell the story of the beginning of the universe, the time of Chaos (literally ‘Yawning Gap’ – the infinite space between heaven and earth), and the gods that followed it in Greek mythology, is no straightforward affair. There are a multitude of characters, all with different roles to play, but…