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The Starry One: A Modern Look at a Monster

Wax Wings

May 3, 2024Ronan Thompson

Why Icarus? Written by Emily McCullough The first time I read the myth of Icarus, my heart broke. I love the story; I thought it …

The Starry One: A Modern Look at a Monster

May 3, 2024May 3, 2024Ronan Thompson

As with many monsters, the mythology surrounding the Minotaur goes far deeper than the hero’s quest to kill it. The story of Crete’s monstrous prince, …

The Inventor, the Prisoner, and the Wax Wings

May 2, 2024May 3, 2024Ronan Thompson

Hubris is one of many Greek words that have carried into common modern use, but to the Ancient world, the concept of hybris was more …

The Hero, The Princess, and the God of Ecstasy

May 1, 2024Ronan Thompson

“What marvel that the horns of a monster were betrayed by his sister, when the twisted path was revealed by the gathering of her thread.” …

The King, the Witch, and the Sacred Bull

April 30, 2024May 3, 2024Ronan Thompson

“Crete rising out of the waves; Pasiphaë, cruelly fated to lust after a bull, and privily covered; the hybrid fruit of that monstrous union—the Minotaur, …

The Birthplace of Legend

April 29, 2024Ronan Thompson

The island of Crete is the birthplace of millennia of mythology. As the stepping stone between Africa and Europe, European civilization began on the narrow …

Council of Nicaea, 2024

March 18, 2024May 2, 2024Ronan Thompson Comment

In 325, the Council of Nicaea met under the guiding hand of newly Christian Emperor Constantine I, and put together a Creed that would define …

The Bronze Age Pompeii

February 16, 2024March 18, 2024Ronan Thompson Comment

Situated squarely between mainland Greece, Turkey, and Crete, the Cycladic Islands sat at the heart of the Bronze Age Mediterranean world. The spiral-shaped volcanic island …

Humanities Alum Career Round-Table

January 26, 2024January 26, 2024Ronan Thompson

Tracing the Myth of Achilles

December 8, 2023February 25, 2024Ronan Thompson 1

Written by Carrinna Muncy “Goddess, sing of the cataclysmic wrath of great Achilles, son of Peleus.” This is the first line of Homer’s Iliad, which …

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