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Classical Myths updated for the 21st century
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A great collection of stories
The First Heroes
The First Heroes: New Tales of the Bronze Age. The stories are a mix of Historical Fiction, SF, Fantasy, and one of Altenate History. Fantasy comes from the myths of the era being incorporated in several of the stories. The Greek world is well represented, but China, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Egypt, Northern Europe and even Peru appear. Continue reading
Shape-shifting Blacksmiths
Modern Medusa
From Pearls Before Swine via RogueClassicism.
No surprise here :-)>
Greece Offers to Repay Loans with Giant Horse
Steed Wheeled Into Brussels at Night
In what many are hailing as a breakthrough solution to Greece’s crippling debt crisis, Greece today offered to repay loans from the European Union nations by giving them a gigantic horse.
Life in Late Bronze Age Greece
Notes on Mycenaeans, by Rodney Castleden
I have been interested in the Greek Bronze Age ever since I read Joseph Alsop’s From the Silent Earth back in High School (1964-1968). Mycenaeans is a very readable and recent survey (2005) and I was quite interested in seeing what is new. Quick summary: Some more sites have been excavated, there have been more digs at known sites, and more Linear B tablets have been
found and translated. So there are Lots of new details, but no revolutionary changes in what archeologists think and the big questions remain unanswered.
Oldest known written record in Europe discovered
A Linear B tablet from between 1450 and 1350 B.C.
Zeus complains…..
‘World of Chaos’
Astronomers name ‘world of chaos’, the discovery of which caused all the recent fuss about Pluto. Via mdlbear and Slashdot
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 