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Is the Bible Believable?

michellespagefornonni wrote 5 days ago: Its a miracle the ancient scriptures were preserved so well and faithfully.  No other culture has su … more →

Tags: Books, Christianity, God, History, Jesus, Writers, Bible, Faith, Jesus and The Bible

The Last Laugh of King Gilgamesh

Nathan Velasquez wrote 1 month ago: Contributing Authors: Christopher, Catherine and Nathan Velasquez, and Grace Brewer Mars Hill Classi … more →

Tags: Subjects, Book Reviews, gilgamesh

The Epic of Gilgamesh: The Story of the Story is an Epic All Its Own2 comments

rosejudson wrote 3 months ago: The Lion Hunt, bas-relief from the North Palace of Nineveh. Currently at the British Museum. “ … more →

Tags: Early/Pre-Christian Lit, Epics, archaeology, sumer, Translations, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Book Clubs, gilgamesh, ancient epics

Videogames: Lit Undercover

jenecrit wrote 3 months ago: Who wants to study mythology anymore? Ancient literature? Who cares? Well, as it turns out, videogam … more →

Tags: ProfoundNet, New Media, Fantasy, Tolkien, ign, The Influence of Literature and Myth in Videogames, Douglass Perry, Lovecraft, Heinlein

bdsm in ancient greece

playswithbarbie wrote 4 months ago: Evidence of (non-consensual) bdsm fantasies in ancient Rome is provided by the “Satyricon … more →

Tags: Ancient Roots of BDSM, bdsm, history of bdsm, history of sex, sex, sex in Ancient Greece, Social History, Sexual History, Aphrodisiac

Of Men and Muses

Tom Verenna wrote 6 months ago: Well Book 1 is here!  It’s not my monograph, however.  Two more yet to go this year! … more →

Tags: ancient Israel, Ancient Near East, Belief, classical history, Early Christianity, Genre, Ghosts, Hebrew Bible, imitatio

Passion Is Missing but Not Absent

Matilda Beupine wrote 6 months ago: A midterm essay from my senior year in high school, for a Latin class, about the poet Catullus. Even … more →

Tags: All posts, Art & Writing, Poetry, Music, secrets, Passion, History, Society, Random

Inside the Box

Yann wrote 7 months ago: This is an essay a long time in the coming. It gestated somewhere in the 2nd Century AD, was spurred … more →

Tags: essays, Responses and Counter-points, mirror's edge, history of criticism, game journalism, keith stuart, mainstream criticism and conservatism vs inevitable pro, Indie Games, on criticism

Dionysius of Halicarnassus writes...

Tom Verenna wrote 11 months ago: – Epistula ad Pompeium … more →

Tags: Quotes

Jason and the Argonauts - Skeleton Fight

Tom Verenna wrote 1 year ago: This is one of my favorite scenes from any 1960’s movie dealing with mythology.  The scene her … more →

Tags: classical history, Humor

James McGrath and Gethsemane2 comments

Tom Verenna wrote 1 year ago: Once more James would rather ignore the point at hand and complain about it rather than make a speci … more →

Tags: Jesus, paul, New Testament, Early Christianity

Gilgamesh: A literary Pompeii

santitafarella wrote 1 year ago: When we talk about reading the Epic of Gilgamesh today, we are talking about a version of the story … more →

Tags: Religion, God, pompeii, Greece, Literature, Christianity, Bible, nineveh, Jonah


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