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Sunset at Sounon and Poseidon (Cardaf/Adobe Stock) (Adobe Stock) — 17 Mar 2023

Greece’s East Attica In Antiquity: Playground Of Gods, Heroes And Heroines

By micki pistorius

Archaeology & Science

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The seductive scenery along the east coast of Attica in Greece overlooking the Aegean Sea, easily lures one back to an era when mythical gods and goddesses still claimed the land and implored their heroes to build temples for them and their...
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Sunset at Sounon and Poseidon (Cardaf/Adobe Stock) (Adobe Stock) — 17 Mar 2023

Greece’s East Attica In Antiquity: Playground Of Gods, Heroes And Heroines

By micki pistorius

Archaeology & Science

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The seductive scenery along the east coast of Attica in Greece overlooking the Aegean Sea, easily lures one back to an era when mythical gods and goddesses still claimed the land and implored their heroes to build temples for them and their...
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Mosaic of Thetis dipping baby Achilles in the Styx – Haleplibache Excavation, Amazon Villa, Sanliurfa Mosaic Museum (Image: Courtesy Micki Pistorius) — 02 Dec 2022

Mother and Child Reunion Of Thetis And Achilles

By Dr Kenneth C Gutwein

Mythology & Mystery

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The Iliad can provide new insights on the role of motherhood among the ancient Greek gods, and by extension, amongst ancient mortal Greek women themselves. Very much like the lyrics of the famous Paul Simon song, Mother and Child Reunion (1972),...
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Mosaic of Thetis dipping baby Achilles in the Styx – Haleplibache Excavation, Amazon Villa, Sanliurfa Mosaic Museum (Image: Courtesy Micki Pistorius) — 02 Dec 2022

Mother and Child Reunion Of Thetis And Achilles

By Dr Kenneth C Gutwein

Mythology & Mystery

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The Iliad can provide new insights on the role of motherhood among the ancient Greek gods, and by extension, amongst ancient mortal Greek women themselves. Very much like the lyrics of the famous Paul Simon song, Mother and Child Reunion (1972),...
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Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs' by Luca Giordano, The Hermitage (Public Domain) — 27 May 2019

Half-Human Half-Beasts Love and Lust in Mythology

By MartiniF

Mythology & Mystery

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Half-human half-beast creatures are found loving and lusting, warring and whoring in myths and legends of nearly every, if not all, cultures in the world. Although many of them made their debut in stories from ancient Greece, Mesopotamia and Egypt,...
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Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs' by Luca Giordano, The Hermitage (Public Domain) — 27 May 2019

Half-Human Half-Beasts Love and Lust in Mythology

By MartiniF

Mythology & Mystery

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Half-human half-beast creatures are found loving and lusting, warring and whoring in myths and legends of nearly every, if not all, cultures in the world. Although many of them made their debut in stories from ancient Greece, Mesopotamia and Egypt,...
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Tiresias transformed into a woman by Pietro della Vecchia (1626 – 1678) — 03 Dec 2018

Tiresias, Blinded by the Gods and Blessed with Second Sight

By MartiniF

Mythology & Mystery

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According to Greek mythology, Tiresias, the blind prophet of Apollo, was well-known as much for his clairvoyance as for being transformed into a woman for seven years. He was present for seven generations in Thebes - beginning as advisor...
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Tiresias transformed into a woman by Pietro della Vecchia (1626 – 1678) — 03 Dec 2018

Tiresias, Blinded by the Gods and Blessed with Second Sight

By MartiniF

Mythology & Mystery

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According to Greek mythology, Tiresias, the blind prophet of Apollo, was well-known as much for his clairvoyance as for being transformed into a woman for seven years. He was present for seven generations in Thebes - beginning as advisor...
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Fry in Eleusis, painting by Henryk Siemiradzki (1889). — 19 Oct 2018

Baubo, Great Goddess and Demeter’s Female Fool in the Eleusinian Mysteries

By MartiniF

Mythology & Mystery

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In 1898, a group of German archaeologists working in the Demeter sanctuary at Priene unearthed a peculiar set of Hellenistic female figurines. The head of each of these figurines sits directly on her legs. Each figure also has long hair that drapes...
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Fry in Eleusis, painting by Henryk Siemiradzki (1889). — 19 Oct 2018

Baubo, Great Goddess and Demeter’s Female Fool in the Eleusinian Mysteries

By MartiniF

Mythology & Mystery

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In 1898, a group of German archaeologists working in the Demeter sanctuary at Priene unearthed a peculiar set of Hellenistic female figurines. The head of each of these figurines sits directly on her legs. Each figure also has long hair that drapes...
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Sirens And The Night by William Edward Frost (1810–1877) — 08 Oct 2018

Identity Crises of the Sirens: Wise Women, Murderesses or Singing Prostitutes?

By MartiniF

Mythology & Mystery

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Ancient cultures around the world saw the sea as a dangerous place, filled with beings who preyed upon people - especially men. The Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder, whose Natural History would serve as scientific gospel for centuries to follow,...
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Sirens And The Night by William Edward Frost (1810–1877) — 08 Oct 2018

Identity Crises of the Sirens: Wise Women, Murderesses or Singing Prostitutes?

By MartiniF

Mythology & Mystery

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Ancient cultures around the world saw the sea as a dangerous place, filled with beings who preyed upon people - especially men. The Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder, whose Natural History would serve as scientific gospel for centuries to follow,...
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