ancient greece

Greek Mythology Monsters Map!

Came across this poster which features Greek mythical monsters by their rumoured location. It’s by Neil Parkinson and you can get a copy on his etsy shop. I’ve already ordered mine, as I work from home it’ll sit above my desk and give me something different to look at. Excellent work!        

Falling for you. The dangers of unrequited love in Ancient Greece.

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 …

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Between the rockery and a hard place. Priapus and the garden gnome.

From Germany to the UK. In 1847 Sir Charles Isham journeyed back from Germany and returned with 21 smaller friends. These were small figures which themselves had evolved from what the Italians had called Gobbi. The garden gnome had arrived. It wasn’t until the 1930s that the term ‘gnome’ entered usage in England and after the …

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Bees in Antiquity Part Two: Greece and Rome

As we have seen in the previous article, apiculture had become a sophisticated industry by the time Homer was composing epithets and gruesome deaths. The Mediterranean and its trade routes facilitated an easy exchange of ideas and technologies. One civilisation, the Minoan  may well have passed on technologies or offered alternatives to those already used …

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