The Dioscuri | One Mortal, One Divine, Both Necessary
When the roof fell in at Scopas's banquet, Simonides the poet was the only person standing outside. He had been called out moments before by two young men who wanted…
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Echoes from the Acropolis
The Flood of Deucalion | The Myth in Which Humanity Was Made from Stone
When Deucalion and Pyrrha needed to repopulate the earth, they were told to throw their…
The Face Apollo Gave the Buddha | Greek Art and the Long Journey East
For five hundred years after Siddhartha Gautama achieved enlightenment under the Bodhi tree in the…
Hecate and the Greek Philosophy of the Threshold
Every god in the Greek pantheon owned something. Zeus owned the sky. Poseidon owned the…
Samos | The Island Where Mathematics Became the World
Two teams of workers entered a mountain on Samos from opposite sides in approximately 550…
Samothrace | The Island the Gods Chose Before Olympus
Ten million people a year walk past her at the top of the Daru staircase…
The Kabeiroi and the Unseen Forces of Samothraki
Samothraki is the island where the most beautiful object in the Louvre was found. The…
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Eros Before Cupid | What Desire Was Before It Became Small
In the beginning, before the gods were born, something emerged from Chaos that the Greeks called Eros. Hesiod names him fourth in the sequence of what came into being, after…
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Halkidiki | Where the Art of Relaxation Becomes a Way of Life
The three peninsulas of Halkidiki extend into the northern Aegean at intervals that make the region identifiable from the air as something and deliberate: Kassandra to the west, Sithonia in…
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When the Gods Grieve | Loss, Transformation, and the World It Made
We gave the Greek gods everything. Immortality. Strength beyond any mortal reckoning. The power to…
The Divine Constellation | The Greek Cosmological Tradition from Chaos to Troy
The Greeks did not believe the gods had always existed. This is the first and…
Lesbos | Beyond Sappho, Beyond the Headlines
Let's address it directly and then move on. Lesbos is the birthplace of Sappho, the…
Folegandros | The Island That Belongs to Neither
In the fourth century BCE, young men from across Greece made their way by boat…
Ten Ritual Drinks Inspired by the Gods of Greece
The Greek word for nectar, the drink of the immortals, means victory over death. Ambrosia,…
Nemesis | The Goddess Whose Name Means Distribution
The Persians brought their own marble. In 490 BCE, the Persian fleet that landed at…