by Ever | Jun 16, 2021 | Review, Uncategorized
This book begins with an enlightening discussion of what myth is exactly. Graf explains many opposing viewpoints of the myths throughout history and from an arrangement of scholars, from ancient times right up to the modern day. The author next goes into a...
by Ever | Jun 15, 2021 | Hermes, Hymn
I sing of Cyllenian Hermes, the Slayer of Argus, lord of Cyllene and Arcadia rich in flocks, luck-bringing messenger of the deathless gods. He was born of Maia, the daughter of Atlas, when she had made with Zeus, — a shy goddess she. Ever she avoided the throng...
by Ever | Jun 4, 2021 | Aphrodite, Hymn
I will sing of stately Aphrodite, gold-crowned and beautiful, whose dominion is the walled cities of all sea-set Cyprus. There the moist breath of the western wind wafted her over the waves of the loud-moaning sea in soft foam, and there the gold-filleted Hours...
by Ever | Jun 4, 2021 | Review
Before picking up this book, you should be prepared with the following knowledge: this book is lengthy and very dry. It is not a book that can be breezed through and probably would not appeal to everyone. Don’t let that scare you away though! It’s also an...
by Ever | May 27, 2021 | Hymn
For some say, at Dracanum; and some, on windy Icarus; and some, in Naxos, O Heaven-born, Insewn[1]; and others by the deep-eddying river Alpheus that pregnant Semele bare you to Zeus the thunder-lover. And others yet, lord, say you were born in Thebes; but all these...
