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The King, the Wild Man and Sacred Nature
This semester I am teaching a course on ancient mythology and the natural world. Every week I will publish an article about the topics discussed in class to help my students digest the weekly readings and follow up on the week’s lecture. Th...
One Hidden Mythic Word. Six Clues. Can You Solve It?
Etymon has created a puzzle for Myth and Mystery readers. One word hidden behind six clues drawn from its etymological history.
Each of the clues narrows the field, moving from era and origin through linguistic path, literal meaning...
Fortune from the River...
Last night I dreamt that I was crying,
Heavy drops falling in rings upon the earth,
Then flowing in long and winding rivers—
And finally I realized it was rain.
It rained the day I raised my hands to heaven,
Calling on the wide sky...
Dionysus, It Is Time...
Rilke’s Autumnal Hymn and The God of the Seasons
Lord, it is time! The summer was so great.
Sailing the Stars on Homer’s Winged Words: Jan Křesadlo’s Astronautilia (1995)
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. T...
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Historian, teacher and author writing about ancient myth, mystery, religion and re-enchantment. Orphic seer seeking the divine in all traditions, I hold a doctorate in Classics from the University of Oxford.
I'm an American writer living in Central Bohemia, Czechia. All of my work focuses on people's relationships with the land and on communities that seek a degree of separation from oppressive civilizational structures.
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