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A place where ancient myths and religions live in a new light. "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious." A. Einstein
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Dionysus, It Is Time... (opens the original)
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Lord, it is time! The summer was so great.Let your shadow lengthen on the sundialsand let your winds loose upon the fields.Coax the final fruits to fullness.Grant them two more days of southern lighturge them onward to their term, and press the last few drops of sweetness in the wine.Whoever has no house, now will build none.Who is alone now will long remain so,will wake and read and write long letters,and wander the streets to and frorestless, while the leaves are driven. —Rainer Maria Rilke, A
Sailing the Stars on Homer’s Winged Words: Jan Křesadlo’s Astronautilia (1995) (opens the original)
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Guest article on a fascinating sci-fi epic in ancient Greek by Ben Broadbent, a PhD student at the University of Michigan. Ben has translated the entire poem in English and is looking for a publisher. People never stopped reading Homer. Though his personhood may be as fictional as his epics, this matterless phantom has cast the longest of shadows over his flesh-and-blood posterity. We will likely never stop reading the Iliad and Odyssey. We will also never stop writing in its tradition. That is
Ancient Weeds (opens the original)
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A man goes to the toilet and finds himself in the company of a demon. The creature has taken the appearance of a pagan warrior and moves along the seats, coming closer and closer to its intended victim. Just before it can reach him, a church bell rings and the demon plunges down the toilet. Christianity has won another victory but the setting is unlikely to feature in the church. This Old Norse story is among the pleasures of Ancient Weeds, a volume edited by Sylva Fischerová and Jiří Starý on p
The Living Streams and Worshipping the Machine (opens the original)
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The drought was taken to be an omen by the less discerning soldiers: as if the rivers, the ancient defences of the empire, were now deserting us. What was called chance or nature in peace was called fate and anger of the gods in war. —Tacitus, Historia 4.26In 69 CE, a year of civil wars, the Roman Empire faced an unprecedented crisis: several generals declared themselves emperors and marched on Rome. Four different leaders were installed as leaders in quick succession. To make things worse, on t
What the Thunder Said (opens the original)
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Datta: what have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment’s surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed Which is not to be found in our obituaries Or in memories draped by the beneficent spider Or under seals broken by the lean solicitor In our empty roomsI spent the better half of this month teaching mythology at a summer school at the University of Oxford, my alma mater (I studied back in the days when they offere
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