Wax Wings
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 …
Ancient
The Starry One: A Modern Look at a Monster
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
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
“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
“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
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 …
The Bronze Age Pompeii
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 …
Poetry: Ashes and an Arrow
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 …
Tracing the Myth of Achilles
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 …
A Crash Course on Ancient Delaware
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 …