Giants in Ancient Warfare
Adrienne Mayor considers a time when giants, long creatures of myth, did walk the land.
Spartacus Mythistoricus: Winning Spartacus into the Mythical
The Spartacus represented in these media is not the same Spartacus that the ancient sources wrote about. The representation of Spartacus’ history has changed dramatically over the course of time and has, in fact,
The Iliad: Myth-Making Inside and Out
The Iliad and the Odyssey are the oldest surviving works of Greek poetry, indeed of the whole of Western literature, and they deal with certain events in the lives of two Greek heroes involved in the Trojan War: Achilleus and Odysseus.
The Sunrise As The Birth Of A Baby: The Prenatal Key to Egyptian Mythology
In Egyptian mythology, the Sun God Ra stands at the center. There are many volumes written about the netherworld, the Amduat, such as The Book of the Gate of Heaven, The Book of the Cave, or The Book of the Earth, just to mention the most important ones. In these books of the netherworld, you can read what the dead king, the Pharaoh, can expect to encounter in that world.
Got Druids? Ghastly reads on Halloween and the Ancients!
Got Druids? Ghastly reads on Halloween and the Ancients!
Athena in the Twenty-first Century
Like many contemporary women, Athena moves in what is primarily a man
Maya Ritual and Myth: Human Sacrifice in the Context of the Ballgame and the Relationship to the Popol Vuh
What this paper intends to establish is the exploration of the role of ritual human sacrifice among the Maya with particular reference that this ritual possessed in the context of the ballgame.
An Early Irish Visitor to the Island of Crete: The journey of Symon Semeonis from Ireland to the Holy Land
The project of the Irish translator of the Aeneid was strikingly different from that of a modern translator, of Virgil or of any other author: Whereas the modern translator will strive to convey in a different language both the substance and the form of his source (although there are always problems with metrical texts), the medieval translator, particularly of secular narratives, was primarily interested in
Francis Bacon's use of ancient myths in Novum Organum
In this paper, I will show how the ancient myths of Pan, Perseus, Dionysius, and Prometheus have an impact on Book I of Francis Bacon’s Novum Organum.
Genealogical Myth and Political Propaganda in Antiquity: the Re-Use of Greek Myths from Dionysius to Augustus
The tight relationship between religion and politics in ancient times are fully witnessed by the role of Myth, used for purposes of legitimization and celebration of the reigning power.