Category Archives: Greek Mythology
Artemis
“…careful to preserve the young…protectress of youth….Nevertheless with one of those startling contradictions so common in mythology, she kept the Greek fleet from sailing to Troy until they sacrificed a maiden to her…” p. 31
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Tagged Agamemnon, Artemis, Clytemestra, Iphegenia
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Narcissus
Hera, raging wife of philandering Zeus, finds in the lovely nymph Echo yet another target for her jealousy and punishes her by taking away her capacity to speak except to copy the last words of others. Echo falls in love … Continue reading
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Tagged Echo, goddess, Hera, Narcissus, Nemesis, nymph, reflection, Sigmund Freud, Zeus
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“And Mary took all these things and pondered them in her heart.”
In the Julie and Julia blog, Julie cooked everyone of Julia Child’s recipes and gave us the report. Edith Hamilton’s Mythology (first published 1942; Back Bay Books, 1998) is going to be my spirit cookbook. In one swoosh of a … Continue reading
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Tagged Blogging, Edith Hamilton, Greek Mythology, Julie and Julia, Mythology
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