Tales of Times Forgotten

If you live in the northern hemisphere in an area with relatively little light pollution, and you look up at the sky on a clear night sometime between November and February, you will see three prominent constellations overhead.

Three and a half millennia ago, the people of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization revered the double-headed ax, which is conventionally known today as a labrys (plural form: labryes), as a religious symbol associated with powerful goddesses.

Most people who know about Greek myth think that Hades is the ruler of the underworld.

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is perhaps the most highly anticipated new film of the 2020s.

Because generative AI is in everything now, a shockingly high number of other blogs have adopted it, and, on Reddit, other people have occasionally accused my comments on that platform of being AI-generated, I’ve decided to make this short post clarifying…

The new season of HBO’s epic fantasy series House of the Dragon is about to release its fourth episode.

If I told you to imagine what the Devil looks like, you would probably have a very clear image in your head: a man with horns, red skin, a goatee, cloven hooves, and a tail with a point on the end, holding a pitchfork.

Even if you know nothing else about the historiography of the late Roman Empire, there is one work of scholarship on the subject that you’ve probably heard of: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, which was originally published in six

It is a fact of life that, for as long as people have been making laws, there have been people who have tried to break those laws and get away with it.

In the Iliad, Pandaros, son of Lykaon, is a Lykian archer who is allied with the Trojans.

No one can deny that Death of a Unicorn, released in March of this year, is a very strange film.