Tag: Greek Gods

Myth – A world of the imagination

Dec 12, 2025

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Mark

in Everything Latin, Greek and Roman Mythology, Greek Gods, Greek Mythology, Roman mythology, zeus

“Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?”– Aeschylus, Agamemnon The Greek gods were not local in their interests or powers: they held sway over the whole world. Ancient Greeks had access to a huge reserve of fabulous tales about these gods’ about a very different universe, one full of not…
The Argonautica

Oct 4, 2025

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Mark

in Ancient Rome, Everything Latin, Greek and Roman Mythology, Greek history, Greek Mythology, Mediterranean

The Argo, by Constantine Volanakis, c. 1800 One of the oldest sources for the story of Jason and the Argonauts is the Argonautica, an epic poem in the same vein as Homer’s Iliad and the Odyssey, written by Apollonius of Rhodes. Apollonius was an inspiration to the Latin poets Virgil and Flaccus when they wrote their own epic poems, and he was both innovative and…