The Greeks chose, as their founding story, not triumph but rupture. The Iliad opens with epic anger: leaders divided, an army stalled, a coalition nearly undone before it reaches the walls of Troy. The ancient Greeks did not ground their civilization in harmony, but in the conditions that make order fragile; pride, rivalry, misjudgment, theContinue reading “The Illiad”
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Why Return to the Greek Myths
This project begins from a simple premise: human nature has not changed. The technologies surrounding us have transformed almost beyond recognition, but the underlying motives that drive human action remain stubbornly familiar. Ambition, envy, loyalty, desire, the longing for recognition, the dread of mortality: these appear in every age, already fully visible in the earliestContinue reading “Why Return to the Greek Myths”
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”
Protective Arts 