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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
“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 …
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 …
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 …