Odysseus did not want to go to war. When the oath he had devised to bind the other kings was called due and the kings of Greece gathered for Troy, he attempted to escape it. He yoked an ox and a donkey to the same plow and drove them in erratic lines across the field,Continue reading “Odysseus”
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Prometheus
Before Zeus ruled, there were Titans. Prometheus belongs to that earlier generation, a survivor of the war that placed Zeus on the throne. When the Olympians overthrow Cronos and the Titans in the Titanomachy, Prometheus does something unusual: he aids Zeus (Hesiod, Theogony 617–720). At first glance the decision appears pragmatic. The new regime isContinue reading “Prometheus”
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 