Hello and welcome to 2020! This year I’m going to use my site a bit more to collate bits and pieces I have done on various subjects. Who better then than to start with the Spartans. Podcasts. In 2019 I recorded two podcasts on Spartan women. The first deals with what it might be like …
Lefkada (or to use its earlier name Leucas) is located in the Ionian Sea. It was here that Aphrodite grieved for the loss of her lover Adonis and where she found a cure for her heartbreak. Apollo suggested that she should leap from the White Rock into the sea. This did the trick and whether …
Falling for you. The dangers of unrequited love in Ancient Greece. Read More »
The Iliad is full of characters, some of them less well known than others and Sarpedon is a really crucial part of the Homer’s tale. Through him a number of themes and motifs are examined and codes reinforced. He isn’t a frontrunner in the fame stakes and probably known more for the representation of his …
