Blogs about: Herakles
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Dammit!
While mounting the plate for shelf display, I held both the wax and plate at exactly the best angle to create this photogenic crack. Dammit! The break goes through the plate completely, but the thick… more →
Pegma Press
Labour isn't working
wrote 5 days ago: Britain is becoming increasingly secular. Last year, a ComRes poll showed that the number of people … more →
Hide Your Wings, Red Boy
wrote 2 weeks ago: Becoming an artist was always my PLAN A, though I’ve spent a majority of my life executing PLA … more →
Aphrodite and Psykhe, Hera and Zeus' favored ones : ancient images of heroic quests and patronage
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wrote 1 month ago: Hera is the an hero-maker, although this is the face of Her modern pagans tend to remember less. She … more →
'Deforestation is dehumanization' says an Activator volunteering at Greenpeace Africa
wrote 1 month ago: Amir Bagheri, an Activator who joined the network last year and who is currently volunteering for Gr … more →
On Domestic Piety
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wrote 1 month ago: On Domestic Piety XXIII:MAR:MMXIII The home of the worshipper is the center of religious … more →
Admetus
wrote 2 months ago: Admetus was the son of Pheres king of Pherae and heir to the throne. He befriended the Greek gods an … more →
Poll: The Most Shocking
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wrote 3 months ago: The next round of our comic book battles is upon us. Black Lightning zaps in for DC Comics, Electro … more →
O.H. #XII to Herakles in New Translation
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wrote 3 months ago: 12. Of Herakles Incense: frankincense O Herakles the strong-spirited, powerful, brave Titan, Strong- … more →
Dame Irony's Armlock
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wrote 3 months ago: Handwriting day! HOORAH! The Augean-style heaps of workaday horror I was whining about on Monday ha … more →
Seducing Amazons: a how-to
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wrote 3 months ago: preying for a drink The night is still young as Herodotus gets going on Scythia and Libya. In Book F … more →
Notable Reads of 2012: Part 1
wrote 4 months ago: This was originally going to be one really long post, but it got, uh, too long. So here’s the … more →
Greek Mythology
wrote 5 months ago: 2008年在Sounion買的書，現在才把它看完，最近比較空閒呢。 =D 希臘神話的流傳除了依靠幾本史詩如荷馬(Homer)的《伊利亞德》《Iliad》與《奧德賽》《Odyssey》，赫西俄德(Hes … more →
A Paean to Amazon
wrote 6 months ago: In his ninth labor, Herakles was challenged to take the belt of the Amazon queen, Hippolyta. Which … more →
Looking at Peter Pan and the Wizard of Oz
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wrote 6 months ago: Pete Pan as J.M. Barrie envisaged him, and had this statue mounted in Kensington Gardens. Wikicommon … more →
Herakles (1962)
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wrote 7 months ago: Herzog began filmmaking at aged 20, with this perturbing 10 minute short. Set within a gym, it sees … more →
Take Not the Name in Vain
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wrote 7 months ago: Heresy matters. But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would b … more →
"Nobody's Princess" - Historical Mythology in Epic Form
wrote 7 months ago: Book Review : Nobody’s Princess by Esther Friesner Spoiler Alert! Clytemnestra weaves, embroid … more →
SİDE-ANTALYA
wrote 8 months ago: “Side” means pomegranate. This name stems Luvice which is language of Anatolian’s oldest community. … more →
Silver tetradrachm of Alexander The Great
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wrote 10 months ago: Silver tetradrachm of Alexander the Great, circa 310-275 BC. Alexander’s portrait in the guise … more →
