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Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold

The most entertaining and enraging stories from mythology told casually, contemporarily, and (let's

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Pygmalion and Galatea, it's super weird and creepy but also the origin of My Fair Lady and, yes, She

Ixion... A bad dude who wanted what he couldn't have and was given something very different in it's

Things get dark for our beloved Greeks... *sigh* Patroclus.CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve a

Hector is using his god-power to break down the walls, and Poseidon decides he needs to insert himse

Eris gets involved in the war, it's a real thrill, and Achilles continues to be a jerk. Paris is a d

What would happen if all the women banded together to go on a sex strike? Would they be able to stop

The Trojan War wages on. The gods involve themselves in the action once more, and surprise surprise,

More of Diomedes' madness, and a day in the life of Hector, warrior prince of Troy,CW/TW: far too ma

The Orphic Tradition is a weird, weird thing that includes the god of Time himself, Chronos (not, yo

Flashback to the birth of Aeneas and the affair between his parents Anchises and Aphrodite. Plus, as

Arachne has the nerve to out-spin the goddess Athena, and Medusa, well Medusa's crime is simply bein

The wrath of Diomedes (he's something else), and his encounters with Aeneas, Aphrodite, Athena, and

Results of the oath sworn by Paris and Menelaus, some godly intervention and drama, and, finally, an

The Greeks go on and on planning their approach and the Trojans prepare for the Greek's attack.&nbsp

What makes Agamemnon and Menelaus tick? There's a curse on the House of Atreus: Pelops, Myrtilus, At

We're in it now. Achilles and Agamemnon have a major spat over a prize (read: a woman). The gods are

Aphrodite finds Adonis super hot, too. She's married to Hephaestus but she'd rather be chained to a

Pyramus and Thisbe, an Ovidian Shakespearean romance.   CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assa

The ancient Greeks weren't all gods and monsters. Herodotus was the world's first historian, he trav

Paris and Helen jet off to Troy leaving Helen's husband more than a little peeved. Agamemnon puts to