Blog posts tagged "Column"
Blog posts tagged "Column". Example: What each age was like, why humanity declined, and what Hesiod says of his own Iron Age: Works and Days 109–201 read from…
From the Golden Age to the Iron Age: Hesiod's Decline of Humanity
What each age was like, why humanity declined, and what Hesiod says of his own Iron Age: Works and Days 109–201 read from the Greek, with Ovid's version compared.
Athena in the Odyssey: How Do Homer and the Film Differ?
Why does the film's Athena neither save the hero nor blame him? Set her beside the goddess of the original, who shares her cunning with Odysseus and intervenes at every turn of his homecoming, and the film's design comes into focus.
Athena and Poseidon: The Two Gifts That Decided Athens
The salt spring, the olive tree, and the vote of the gods: how Athens got its name, told from the ancient sources (Apollodorus, Herodotus, Pausanias).
From the Golden Age to the Iron Age: Hesiod's Decline of Humanity
Athena in the Odyssey: How Do Homer and the Film Differ?
Athena and Poseidon: The Two Gifts That Decided Athens
How Rhea Saved Zeus from Cronus, Who Swallowed His Children
Artemidorus: How the Ancient Greeks Interpreted Dreams
Deucalion's Flood and the Humans Born from Stone
DH2026: AI Translation and the Work of Building Research Infrastructure
The Gigantomachy: The War the Gods Could Not Win Alone
King Midas and the Terror of the Golden Touch
Apollo and Hyacinthus: A Youth's Death and a Flower of Grief
Pygmalion's Beloved 'Galatea' Originally Had No Name
Why Was Asclepius Punished for Raising the Dead?
Apollo and Marsyas: The Price of Challenging a God
Arion, the Musician Whose Final Song Summoned a Dolphin
Narcissus and Echo: The End of Two Unrequited Loves
The God Who Makes Men Forget, the Man Who Will Not: The Ending of the Odyssey
The Odyssey: “Nostalgia” Was the Pain of Being Unable to Return
We Went to See The Odyssey
The Man Who Called Himself “Nobody”: A Trap of Words in Homer's Odyssey
An Oxford Visit: Where Classical Scholarship Meets Digital Technology
Why Was Hope Left in Pandora's Box?
Why Ancient Greeks Hated Philosophers: The Harshest Insults
After Chaos Came Gaia—and the Greek Cosmos Began
Why Did Prometheus Give Fire to Humanity—and Suffer Forever?
Otium: Pliny the Younger on Roman Villas and Leisure
Ask the Guest's Name After the Meal: The “Law of Zeus” in the Odyssey
Why Did Baucis and Philemon Become Two Trees?
Dreaming of Lightning: What the Ancient Greeks Believed It Meant
Why Did Callisto Become Ursa Major?
How Did Typhon Defeat Zeus—and Still Lose?
The Castration of Uranus: Cronus and the First Change of Power
The Titanomachy: How Zeus Defeated His Father Cronus