The Hero, The Princess, and the God of Ecstasy
“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.” …
“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.” …
“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 island of Crete is the birthplace of millennia of mythology. As the stepping stone between Africa and Europe, European civilization began on the narrow …
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 …
A Brief Disclaimer For the sake of literary analysis, I’m going to discuss Achilles here as if he is one single character. In reality, there …
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 …
What comes to mind when you think of prehistoric civilizations in North America? The Aztec pyramids in Mexico? Or maybe the cities carved into stone …
“‘Here I am,’ I thought, ‘climbing around in an ancient tomb in a country I have always dreamed of visiting. I know this tomb, and I know what I’m looking at. This is what I want to do. Everything in my life is coming together.'”
How do two of the most prominent medieval poets approach the fate of Greek heroes of old?
Fall ’23 class! Discover the art of the Mediterranean from the Cycladic culture into late antiquity and how visual art connects to culture and history.