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You Can’t Sit at Our Table

Posted on January 31, 2022 by Nathan

Today, I wanted to look at the Table of Nations from Genesis 10. The Hebrew word that’s usually translated “nations” is goyim, which became gentilis in the Latin Vulgate. Both words have come to mean non-Jewish people in general, and … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Christianity, Egyptian, Ethnicity, Etymology, Families, Greek Mythology, History, Judaism, Language, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Prejudice, Religion | Tagged abraham, aegyptus, agenor, andromeda, atlas, babylon, belus, bible, bosporus, canaan, carthage, cetus, crete, danaus, eber, egypt, esau, ethiopia, euripides, europa, flavius josephus, flood, genesis, good news bible, ham, hellen, hera, herodotus, heth, hittites, iapetus, inachus, incest, Iran, ishmael, isis, israel, jacob, japheth, jonah, king cepheus, king solomon, king xerxes i, libya, lydia, magog, mesopotamia, mizraim, moab, mycenae, nimrod, noah, ophir, paul of tarsus, perses, perseus, phoenicia, poseidon, prometheus, racism, scythia, sea monsters, shem, table of nations, tarshish, tartessos, the rose and the ring, titans, tros, troy, william makepeace thackeray, zeus | 1 Comment

Letting the New Year In

Posted on April 23, 2016 by Nathan

Perhaps it would have been more appropriate to have written about this post’s subject last month, but it makes more sense to me to cover her now instead of waiting until next March. Anna Perenna was the Roman goddess of … Continue reading →

Posted in Holidays, Mythology, New Year's Day, Poetry, Roman | Tagged aeneas, anna of carthage, anna perenna, bovillae, carthage, dido of carthage, fasti, ides of march, io, mars, minerva, ovid, river numicius, themis, virgil | 6 Comments

Give Me Your Tyred, Your Punic

Posted on April 16, 2016 by Nathan

Carthage is remembered these days as the main enemy of the ever-expanding Romans in the third and second centuries BC. The two burgeoning empires fought the three Punic Wars, the second of which was when Hannibal launched his unsuccessful campaign … Continue reading →

Posted in Greek Mythology, History, Middle East, Mythology, Roman, Roman Empire, Semitic | Tagged acerbas, aeneas, aeneid, africa proconsularis, anna perenna, baal, baal hammon, carthage, dido, flavius josephus, hannibal, iarbas, jezebel, juno, jupiter, mattan of tyre, melqart, menander of ephesus, mercury, ovid, phoenicia, punic wars, pygmalion, rome, trojan war, troy, tunisia, tyre, venus, virgil | 4 Comments

Turning to Tanit

Posted on January 23, 2016 by Nathan

Tanit was the chief goddess of Carthage, the one-time greatest rival of the Roman Empire. The city was founded by immigrants from Phoenicia, and was probably a Phoenician colony before turning to self-rule. While Tanit is mostly associated with Carthage, … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Greek Mythology, History, Middle East, Mythology, Religion, Roman, Roman Empire, Semitic | Tagged anath, astarte, baal hamon, carthage, emperor elegabalus, hera, human sacrifice, juno caelestis, phoenicia, sacrifice, tanit | Leave a comment

A Trojan in Italy

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Nathan

Does the Aeneid count as Homeric fanfiction? I mean, it pretty much follows up the Iliad and Odyssey exactly, using some of the same characters and situations. Like Odysseus, Aeneas encounters Polyphemus the Cyclops and visits the world of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Greek Mythology, History, Mythology, Roman, Roman Empire | Tagged aeneas, aeneid, caesar augustus, carthage, dido, rome, trojan war, troy, turnus, tyre, virgil | 11 Comments

Putting the Chemosh On

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Nathan

A little research into Biblical history reveals that, before becoming monotheistic, the worship of Yahweh that would eventually develop into Judaism was henotheistic. That is, while Yahweh was viewed as the main god and the national deity of Israel and … Continue reading →

Posted in Babylonian, Greek Mythology, Judaism, Mythology, Religion, Semitic | Tagged adad, ahab of israel, aphrodite, asherah, ashtoreth, astarte, baal, bible, bosheth, carthage, chemosh, constitution, el, elijah, hadad, hannibal, henotheism, jezebel, josiah, leviticus, melek, melqart, mesha of moab, moab, molech, moloch, mot, mount of olives, psalms, rabbi shlomo yitzhaki, rashi, solomon, tyre, yamm | 14 Comments

Tag Archives: carthage

You Can’t Sit at Our Table

Letting the New Year In

Give Me Your Tyred, Your Punic

Turning to Tanit

A Trojan in Italy

Putting the Chemosh On

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