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I’d Idle On with an Eidolon

Posted on November 27, 2022 by Nathan

I’d been interested in the origin of the term “eidolon” after hearing the Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby episodes on Euripides’ Helen, and remembering that the term had been used in the Final Fantasy series. It’s basically a phantom, a … Continue reading →

Posted in Final Fantasy, Greek Mythology, History, Magic, Mythology, Names, Plays, Relationships, Religion, Video Games | Tagged achilles, aphrodite, castor, centaurs, clouds, dioscuri, eidolons, euripides, exodus, ghosts, helen, helen dendritis, helen of troy, hera, hermes, herodotus, ixion, menelaus, nemesis, paris, pausanias, podcasts, polydeuces, polyxo, priam of troy, proteus, ramesses ii of egypt, stesichorus, the ten commandments, theoclymenos, trees, trojan war, troy, zeus | Leave a comment

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

Don’t Be a Heel, Achilles

Posted on February 28, 2019 by Nathan

Glory of Heracles – Released for the DS in 2010 (2008 in Japan), this is actually the fifth game in a Japanese series (sixth counting a spin-off), but so far the only one to be translated into English. And I … Continue reading →

Posted in Greek Mythology, Humor, Magic, Mythology, Video Games | Tagged axios, daedalus, eris, ether, glory of heracles, heracles, hercules, leucos, oceanus, role-playing, trojan horse, troy, zeus | 1 Comment

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

Troy Story

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Nathan

Age of Bronze: Betrayal, Part Two, by Eric Shanower – It seems like forever since the last volume of this series was released, but Eric has been doing other things. This chapter of the retelling of the Trojan War focuses … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Bronze Age, Comics, Eric Shanower, Greek Mythology, History, Mythology | Tagged age of bronze, betrayal part two, cassandra, cressida, kalchas, troilus, trojan war, troy | Leave a comment

Amazon Primer

Posted on November 8, 2014 by Nathan

While warfare has traditionally been considered a masculine pursuit, Greek legend contains accounts of the Amazons, an all-female tribe of powerful warriors. While they were often said to live in Asia Minor, they were sometimes located in Africa or the … Continue reading →

Posted in Age of Exploration, Authors, Comics, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Gender, Greek Mythology, Heroes of Olympus, History, Mythology, Oz, Rick Riordan, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged achilles, alexander the great, amazons, bellerophon, dc comics, dragon quest iv, femiscyra, final fantasy iv, francisco de orellano, gargareans, gerudo, hercules, herodotus, hippolyte, penthesileia, priam, thalestris, themiscyra, theseus, troia, trojan war, troy, wonder woman | 3 Comments

Britain’s Brutal Beginning

Posted on August 31, 2013 by Nathan

At one point in history, every nation apparently wanted to have origins tied to Troy. I suppose they wanted to have a link to the classics, but for some reason preferred the defeated Trojans to the victorious Greeks. Hey, I … Continue reading →

Posted in British, Bronze Age, England, Greek Mythology, History, Mythology, Roman | Tagged aeneas, albion, brutus, brutus of britain, brutus stone, diana, eli, geoffrey of monmouth, giants, hercules, historia britonum, historia regum britanniae, imogen, julius caesar, king arthur, king pandrasus, london stone, lucius junius brutus, nennius, neptune, reverend richard williams morgan, stonehenge, trojan war, troy, urnfield culture | 6 Comments

Merely a Man

Posted on August 28, 2013 by Nathan

I wrote about demonization last week, but there’s another way people dealt with gods they didn’t believe in, which is claiming that they’re simply people who came to be worshipped. Of course this kind of thing actually happened, both with … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Greek Mythology, Greek Philosophy, Judaism, Mormonism, Mythology, Norse, Philosophy, Religion | Tagged aeneid, crete, euhemerism, euhemerus, europa, hercules, jesus, joseph smith, minos, nimrod, odin, priam, samson, snorri sturluson, troy, virgil, zeus | 7 Comments

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

All Gods Are Our Gods

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Nathan

The ancient Greeks had a tendency of associating the gods of foreign pantheons with their own. This was something I noticed when I read Herodotus back in college, and came across a reference to Ahura Mazda as “the Persian Zeus.” … Continue reading →

Posted in Egyptian, Greek Mythology, Mythology, Norse, Religion, Roman, Zoroastrianism | Tagged ahura mazda, demeter, etruscans, hermes, herodotus, interpetatio graeca, isis, mercury, mithra, odin, phrygians, set, tacitus, thoth, troy, typhon, zeus | 4 Comments

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I’d Idle On with an Eidolon

You Can’t Sit at Our Table

Don’t Be a Heel, Achilles

Give Me Your Tyred, Your Punic

Troy Story

Amazon Primer

Britain’s Brutal Beginning

Merely a Man

A Trojan in Italy

All Gods Are Our Gods

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