9 month ago
deusx : Arete - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "In its earliest appearance in Greek this notion of excellence was bound up with the notion of the fulfillment of purpose or function; the act of living up to one's full potential."
# copy
20 month ago
deusx : drewspeak - like newspeak, but free » Blog Archive » The Internet Troll As The Trickster Archetype - "There are troublemakers in all sorts of settings, in all sorts of mythologies - a troll can be equated to Loki or Anansi just as easily as they could a vitriolic bigot. Who knows? All I understand is that the Internet troll exists by the grace of th
# copy28 month ago
plasticbag : Wikipedia's article on Peitho, goddess of persuasion - Funny goddess. Not enormously popular. Didn't get out much. Occasionally confused with Aphrodite.
# copy
31 month ago
plasticbag : The Beazley dictionary of Classical gods, cities and things - Lovely resource, with pictures and all kinds of neat stuff. Looks a bit crappy, but probably pretty easy for search engines to parse...
# copy
35 month ago
plasticbag : The Twelve Olympians on Flickr - This is a nice piece of work - the twelve Olympian gods of Greek mythology - as represented in Lego...
# copy
37 month ago
plasticbag : Wikipedia has an awesome article on Freyr full of enticingly obvious symbolism! - "The most important Freyr myth relates Freyr's falling in love with the giantess Gerðr. Eventually she becomes his wife but first Freyr has to give away his magical sword."
# copy
39 month ago
deusx : the little people (22 October 2005, Interconnected) - "What if the goblins were bands of teenage boys, and fairies and elves were groups of young children?"
# copy
42 month ago
plasticbag : "American researchers claim to have found convincing evidence that locates the site of the lost kingdom of Atlantis off the coast of Cyprus." - I used to teach myth at University and for the most part the academic approach to this is to say that the myth or idea of Atlantis is way more important than any real place - and to remind people that Plato used a lot of metaphors and fables and literary
# copy
44 month ago
plasticbag : The Mermaid by Heinz Insu Fenkl - An awesome piece of investigation into the figure of the mermaid, the siren and representations of female sexuality centred around the Starbucks logo
# copy
53 month ago
deusx : Godchecker - Your Guide To The Gods. Mythology with a twist!
# copy
