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Jun 20, 2022

La casa de Asterión, by Jorge Luis Borges

Theseus and the Minotaur, mosaic In 1949, the Argentinian short-story writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges wrote a short story, La casa de...

May 10, 2022

The myth of Hermes

Apollo and Hermes, Francesco Albani, 1635, oil on copper, Musée national du Château de Fontainebleau‎, France Hermes was the God of...

Feb 14, 2022

Orpheus and Euridice

Orpheus and Eurydice, by Sir. Edward John Poynter, 1862, private collection Son of Calliope, the muse of Poetry, Orpheus bought music on...

Aug 30, 2021

Apollo

Apollo Sauroktonos, (detail) After Praxiteles CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons The cult of Apollo was imported directly from ancient...

Jun 30, 2021

Theseus and the Minotaur

Theseus, Ariadne and the Minotaur intertwine their adventures in a maze of betrayals, bestial appetites and human sacrifices. One of the...

Apr 30, 2021

The Myth of Prometeus

Who was the father of Men, Zeus or Prometheus? Eh, hard to say, really. The myths, on this issue, often get confused and confuse our...

Mar 30, 2021

The Myth of Arachne

Today’s myth brings us to Colophon, in the region of Lydia, where a young and talented weaver, who went by the name of Arachne, lived....

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