Plato’s Statesman contains one of the most mysterious and beautiful myths in ancient philosophy—the story of the two cosmic cycles and the reign of Cronus, the Titan king. Though the myth appears late in the dialogue, it carries a...
When scientists of the International Commission on Stratigraphy describe the Hadean Eon, the earliest age of our planet, what strikes us is how familiar this chaos feels when compared to Greek mythology. The ICS, a global body of geologists,...
Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet whose epic work Theogony has elevated him to the status of Homer and "a major source on Greek mythology," according to modern scholars.
Theogony (Birth of the gods in Greek) is a monumental work...
The Bible's story of Adam and Eve serves to explain how death and suffering entered the world. The ancient Greeks also had stories about this same issue. However, beyond just having stories about the same general idea, can we...
Greek mythology features many strange and fantastical locations. One such location was a group of islands known as the Isles of the Blessed. They feature in many ancient Greek records. What do these records tell us? And were the...
The rise of rational, scientific thought in Ancient Greece transformed the way people understood the world, marking a decisive break from explanations rooted in myth and divine intervention and laying the foundational stones of Western civilization.
Scholars refer to this...
Greek mythology is absolutely filled with interactions between the gods and humans. The gods regularly intervened in human affairs. They got involved in battles, spoke to people, and even had children with humans. Obviously, real Greek history was quite...
Homer is widely recognised as Greece's oldest and most important poet. He was the composer of the Iliad and the Odyssey. However, the poet Hesiod is also extremely famous and important to Greek epic tradition. Is Homer generally regarded as the...
The Fourth Eclogue of the Roman poet Virgil stands out among his pastoral poems as a piece charged with a mysterious and powerful prophecy. Written around 40 BC, during the turbulent era following Julius Caesar’s assassination, this poem envisions...
When the Ancient Greeks used divine names, it was not merely an act of worship but a subtle form of communication with the gods. The divine names they invoked revealed the essence of each deity and indicated which aspect...
