Tag Archives: Diomedes

Athena

I am suffering a sinus infection that is giving me a pounding headache. The phrase is overplayed but accurate. The pain behind my eyeballs is impossible to ignore; it pulses with a dull insistence. A steady, hammering rhythm. One imagines Zeus felt something like this. Zeus had taken Métis, the goddess of cunning intelligence, asContinue reading “Athena”

Aphrodite

Aphrodite born of inseminated sea foam. Her name evokes the froth (aphros) and hints at deep currents. Sailors would intuitively know how they are moved by the unseen. The Twelve Olympians that appear as the definitive powers holding dominion were not the first. Like all Greek myths, they hold power only after family drama andContinue reading “Aphrodite”

Theseus

Theseus enters the world where the gods themselves have failed to agree. Athens belongs to Athena by decree, but not by consent. She gives the city the olive; Poseidon strikes the rock and leaves salt, horses, and tremor behind. The contest is decided, yet unresolved. The city will bear Athena’s name, but Poseidon does notContinue reading “Theseus”