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Myth inherited

The gods and the islands, the festivals and the kitchen, read as one continuous inheritance.

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· The Attic year

Athens counted its months by the moon.

NEW WRITING

Latest Scrolls

New writing from the Estate, in the order it was published.

THE ATLAS

The Sacred Geography of Greece

Every place this archive has written about, from the oracle of the dead on the Acheron to the tomb of Homer on Ios. Choose a light to open its story.

The gazetteer
THE OLYMPIANS

The Twelve, and the Ones Below

Each of the Olympians has a long reading on the Estate. Walk along the colonnade and enter at whichever god you think you already know.

All mythic essays
BELOW THE EARTHAt the hearth and beneath the earthThe goddess who gave up her seat, and the rulers of the dead
HestiaThe hearth at the center of every houseThe Goddess Who Had No Mythology Because She Was the Condition for All of ItHadesThe kingdom of the deadThe God Who Was Never Evil and the Kingdom That Was Never HellPersephoneQueen below, the returning springThe Transformation the Myth Was Actually About
THE MYTHS

Mythic Essays

Long readings of the stories the Greeks never stopped telling.

More essays
THE EPIC CYCLE

From Chaos to Ithaca

The Greeks set their stories in the sky. Here the whole tradition is laid out the same way, one star for each reading, from the first powers of the cosmos to the last men home from Troy.

CosmosThe first powersThe Divine ConstellationTitans of Ancient GreecePrometheusThe Flood of DeucalionHeroesThe age before TroyPerseusHeraclesThe Myth of TheseusThe ArgonauticaThe Theban CycleTroyTen years at the wallsThe Trojan WarThe IliadThe Shield of AchillesAchillesThe PalladiumCassandraHomecomingsWho got home, and howThe House of AtreusThe OdysseyThe NekuiaChasing the OdysseyThe PoetAnd the man who sang itIos

Cosmos

The first powers
  1. The Divine ConstellationThe Greek Cosmological Tradition from Chaos to Troy
  2. Titans of Ancient GreeceThe Primal Gods Who Shaped the Cosmos
  3. PrometheusThe One Who Knew What Was Coming and Did It Anyway
  4. The Flood of DeucalionThe Myth in Which Humanity Was Made from Stone

Heroes

The age before Troy
  1. PerseusThe Child of Light in the Sealed Chamber
  2. HeraclesThe Civilizing Project That Nearly Killed Its Author
  3. The Myth of TheseusWhat It Really Reveals About Ancient Greece, Power, and Human Struggle
  4. The ArgonauticaThe First Great Journey and the Woman Who Made It Possible
  5. The Theban CycleThe Curse That Began Before Oedipus

Troy

Ten years at the walls
  1. The Trojan WarThe Story That Made Everything Else Possible
  2. The IliadA Complete and Captivating Summary of Homer's Epic Masterpiece
  3. The Shield of AchillesThe World That the War Was Destroying
  4. AchillesThe Man Who Chose the Poem Over the Life
  5. The PalladiumHow Odysseus and Diomedes Stole the Statue That Kept Troy Standing
  6. CassandraThe Gift Apollo Could Not Revoke and the Truth No One Would Hear

Homecomings

Who got home, and how
  1. The House of AtreusA Curse in Four Generations
  2. The OdysseyA Complete Summary of Homer's Epic
  3. The NekuiaHow the Greeks Called the Dead Without Going to Find Them
  4. Chasing the OdysseySailing to Ithaca’s Legendary Shores

The Poet

And the man who sang it

The tradition gave Homer a death as strange as any in his poems.

  1. IosThe Island Where Homer Was Defeated by Children
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THE ATTIC CALENDAR

The Greek Year

A bronze calendar dial in the spirit of the Antikythera mechanism. Athens counted twelve moons from the first new moon after the summer solstice. The hand points to today. Turn to any month to see what was kept in it, then and now.

THE HOUSEHOLD

Greek Living

The table, the house, the customs, and the seasons that set them.

Enter Greek Living
THE ROAD

Wanderlust Greece

Islands, mountains, and the sacred roads still walked today.

Enter Wanderlust Greece
THE CHRONICLES

Cultural Chronicles

Rituals, ruins, symbols, and the lines of descent that carry them.

Enter Cultural Chronicles
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OLYMPUS ESTATE

Myth inherited.

Olympus Estate reads Greece as one continuous inheritance, the gods and the islands, the festivals and the kitchen, the ruins and the houses people still live in. It is a Mythnyx house.