Changing of the Seasons, Demeter and Persephone
Borrowed from mythphile.com As the weather is getting warmer (in my geographical location anyway), I thought I’d post today about the Greek myth of Hades and Persephone. Hades, the god of the...
View ArticleThe Canterbury Tales Remixed: Gilgamesh
I find it really cool that Baba Brinkman created a rap album of modernized descriptions of literary classics, though I can’t say I’m a fan of rap. The fact that I recognized some of these stories was...
View ArticleThalia’s Musings, Modern-ish Greek Mythology
Borrowed from farm2.staticflickr.com As the second volume of this very good web serial has just started postings this week, it’s a good time to talk about this Greek mythology based series. Therefore...
View ArticleBlack Ships, a retelling of the Aeneid
Borrowed from ebooks-imgs.connect.com This is the story of Gull, an oracle that sails with Aeneas and the refuges of the fallen city of Troy, to find a new homeland. It retells Virgil’s Aeneid–for...
View Article“Greek Mythology” (?) in The Immortals
Borrowed from moviefanatic.com I do have a soft spot for ancient mythological fiction, which is why I chose to see this movie. I’m not all that familiar with Theseus’ story, either, and I’m by no means...
View ArticleMerlin, my favorite five season long tease
With all of the final season aired in the UK and half of it in the US, the BBC’s Merlin is almost over (at this point, I’ve seen what’s aired in the US). It’s a little sad. I can’t in good conscience...
View ArticleNeurobiologist Comments on ‘Lucy’, and Volume Three of Thalia’s Musings is...
Ask and you shall receive? Remember when I was happy that an actual doctor commented on Game of Thrones? Now a neurobiologist has commented on the science in the movie Lucy. Here’s the article, up at...
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