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The Name Game
A commenter at The Wild Hunt asked the insightful question: Could I ask a stupid question here? I’ve been reading this blog for a few weeks and have noticed that some people don’t like the term...
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bigger better faster new
Athenaios, Deipnosophistai 14.31a Aristoxenos, in his book entitled Promiscuous Banquets, says we behave like the Poseidonians in the Tyrrhenian Gulf, who although of Greek origin, became barbarized...
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The position of women in Greco-Roman Egypt
Although there are a number of reasons why I find the Hellenistic era to be superior to the Classical period in Greek history, perhaps one of the most important has to do with the role of women in...
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And yet they’re the branch of Greeks most famed for their fair treatment of...
Do you know what the common thread among the Greek populations (Spartans, Tarentines, Locrians and Makedonians) that I’ve been discussing in my posts on the status of women (here and here and here) is?...
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Let’s connect
For those who are planning to attend the Polytheist Leadership Conference and are interested in carpooling or sharing a room, I’ve made a post over at the conference blog to help facilitate that:...
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the good cup
Then Metaneira offered her a cup filled with honeyed wine but she refused it, for she said it was not lawful for her to drink red wine, but bade them to mix some barley and water and give her the...
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Sundry matters pertaining to the thiasos of the Starry Bull
To all the Starry Bull folks who were expecting a guided chat yesterday on Euripides’ Bakchai I am absolutely mortified and profoundly apologetic that I crapped out without notice. My barbarian consort...
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consecratio
Once the collaborative hymns have been fully compiled, edited and posted tomorrow I’m going to print them off and read them to our gods and spirits, consigning them to the flames to consecrate these...
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How variously, and how meaningfully, the notion of death could present itself...
Some excerpts from Günther Zuntz’s Persephone: Three Essays on Religion and Thought in Magna Graecia, Oxford 1970: The visitor will at once observe that these slabs are decorated, in the main, by two...
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Persephone at Locri
Selections from Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood’s Persephone and Aphrodite at Locri: A Model for Personality Definitions in Greek Religion The first series of scenes indisputably belonging to Persephone-a...
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Hence the study of Greek divinities must not be based on the assumption that...
Selections from Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood’s Persephone and Aphrodite at Locri: A Model for Personality Definitions in Greek Religion The first determining factor is clearly the worshipping group and...
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the intersection of death and sexuality
According to Diodorus Siculus (27.4.2), Persephone’s sanctuary was considered “the most renowned temple in Italy, preserved as holy for all time by the inhabitants.” Livy (29.18.3) reports that in 204...
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Some videos to watch for Anthesphoria
Orphic Hymn 29. Hymn to Persephone Persephone, blessed daughter of great Zeus, sole offspring of Demeter, Come and accept this gracious sacrifice. Much-honored spouse of Plouton, discreet and...
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How to use the Sortes Empedocleae
Empedokles of Akragas has a ton of associations with Persephone (indeed, a third of Günther Zuntz’s monumental tome is devoted tracing out some of these threads) so on this, the beginning of her South...
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Klymenia
Dialectal variants of her name: Periphona Πηριφόνα Persephassa Περσεφάσσα Persephatta Περσεφάττα Persephone Περσεφόνη Persephoneie Περσεφονειη Persephoneia Περσεφονεία Pherekratte Φερεκράττη Pherepapha...
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Look at what you made!
Here are the communal prayers for each day of the week. Dionysos – on Sunday Dionysos, god of all things wild and free, I call out to you this day. Dionysos Lysios, the Liberator, deliver me from...
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Tune in this Wednesday
Our guest on Wyrd Ways Radio on Wednesday April 16th is going to be Edward Butler who has been been a practicing devotional polytheist for something like 25 years now. He got his doctorate in...
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This is a clear collocation of the chthonic and the playful.
Each day of Anthesphoria (which will be going on until the 18th of April on the model of the Roman Cerealia) I’m setting aside an hour, at the least, where my thoughts are fully turned towards...
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