A who’s-who on all females in Greek mythology, with a section on Greek Men, a collection of myths, and a lot of beautiful images.

Jupiter and Callisto, by Jean-Honore Fragonard. Read more re: Callisto

N.S. Gill’s Ancient History Blog does Wordless Wednesday, and I think that actually might be something I can maintain. So, from now on, I’ll post images with a link to their Gallery page and a link to read more about…

Today’s post has been brought to you by Erika Meriaux, one of my favorite  artists, who has a really spectacular collection of paintings of Greek Myths (among other subjects). The first painting is of Nana*, the daughter of the River Sangarios,…

So last year Breakfast With Pandora cast the Aeneid with the help of commenters. This seemed like a good idea to me, especially now that Clash of the Titans came out, and the Percy Jackson movies cast the characters without even needing…

It was Mark Alford who first made me really bother looking a second time at Rick Riordan’s uber-popular Greek myth inspired Percy Jackson series. After I read it and started getting inundated with emails from kids hoping they were really…

I’ve been working up to writing this post for over a month, ever since Wendy responded to The Dangers of de-Mystification. I can’t address the whole thing in one post, so this will have to be a series. But by…

I loved this book, but it’s taken me a year to figure out why. Sure, the writing was good – a more lit-y than the genre fic I usually read, something I had to chew and savor instead of swallowing…

Hey guys, have you heard? There’s been a shift in Amazon Rank and stories like the ones you come to Women in Greek Myths to enjoy are in danger. That’s right, in the name of protecting kids from “adult” material,…

I loved Greek myths when I was little. I loved that Athena trounced Ares on the regular and that she cared about the same kind of book-learning wisdom that I, and my privileged family, loved. I loved that Hera, for…

The truth is, even though there is SO much more to be said about the Greek goddesses, I’m just not spending much time thinking about them anymore. In fact, other than slowly reading Kirk Ormand’s book Controlling Desires: Sexuality in…

I know people don’t come here for the book reviews, but IF you are interested in awesome children’s books like me, you should go get Lugalbanda: The Boy Who Got Caught Up in a War: An Epic Tale From Ancient…

Well, I’m branching out a little today. Below I’ve linked to the hour and 20 minute movie “Sita Sings the Blues.” It’s the story of Sita (and Rama) as well as the contemporary story of the marriage of animator, Nina,…

So I’m TAing a class this semester called “Many Ways of Being Human,” and on the first day of class I mentioned the blog Savage Minds as a place they might be interested in heading. But then I asked how…

As it turns out, I DID get a copy of Kirk Ormand’s Controlling Desires not for Thesmophoria but just in time for Christmas. That worked out well, because I got to read it all during our Winter Break. Except that…

I know, I know … a real post is coming soon. But in the meantime, this is a really awesome article: The Glory That Was Greece From a Female Perspective

Persephone Again Everyone wants to talk about Persephone. Especially the poets. How she was grabbed and carried off, how she was kept in darkness so many months, while her mother searched everywhere, waited for her darling to come home. Some…

Hi. This is not the Monster Syncroblog post promised. Nope. In my imagination, I will get it done. Obviously, I have already missed the deadline. However, I have another deadline. Actually, 5 deadlines. All for major real world projects. I…

INFP – The Idealists     The meaning-seeking and unconventional type. They are especially attuned to making sure their beliefs and actions are congruent. They often develop a passion for the arts or unusal forms of self-expression. They enjoy work…

I’ve mentioned Byblis before, I think. The poor girl fell in love with her brother which eventually led to being turned into a spring. But how she got from point A to point B is the awesomeness of the myth.…

I grew up reading D’Aulaire’s Greek Myths, like lots of kids, and credit it with my early inspiration to create my website, Women in Greek Myths. But, I should add, it was a negative inspiration. I had decided that they…

This is a repost from Mahud’s Between Old and New Moons. The Topic for the Mythology Synchroblog is Mythical Monsters and Otherworldly Entities. The Mythology Synchroblog is open to anyone who has an interest in mythology and/or Paganism. So, Pagans,…

I’ve been tagged. It’s a meme that I got from Stregheria Pratica (an awesome witchcraft and spirituality blog that stretches my knowledge of romance languages to read without Babelfish’s help). Here’s how to play: 1. Link you the person who…

Despite the fact that we so often refer to the ancient Greeks for our whole obsession with Democracy here in the U.S., most of us acknowledge that it wasn’t all Skittles and Slice. Beyond the obvious difficulties of actually involving…

I was playing on Gender Analyzer and discovered that I am a man. I’m actually not (although I’ve gotten emails from wingnuts telling me I can’t possibly be a woman), but I am extremely curious what the heck it is…

I’m doing a bunch of projects on sexuality and adolescence in school and I happened to come across this gem: a girl insisting that if you “jump up and down a lot, the stuff will fall out of you and…

So as must be obvious to many of you, I love Goodreads.com. Whenever I talk about any good book, I provide a link there. I might be able to pick up a little pocket change by referring you to Amazon.com…

My favorite holiday of the year is coming up very very soon! In my first year of college I was Arachne. It was awesome. And if there weren’t quite so many awesome amazing women to dress up like left, I…

This is a series on Penelope, who rocks and everyone should know more about. The breakdown is based on my reading (in ancient Greek, thank you very much) of the Odyssey and with some help from Jenny Strauss Clay, Nancy…

You may have heard by now about Nailin’ Paylin. It’s being made by Larry Flint and that’s really all you need to know. Although I understand people’s anger, I think that’s exactly what Flint is challenging. I see it as…

This is a series on Penelope, who rocks and everyone should know more about. The breakdown is based on my reading (in ancient Greek, thank you very much) of the Odyssey and with some help from Jenny Strauss Clay, Nancy…

Because the Wayward Classicist did it: * Grab the nearest book. * Open the book to page 56. * Find the fifth sentence. * Post the text of the next few sentences in your journal along with these instructions. *…

You may have picked up from previous entries that I really dig Penelope, but now you’ll start to understand why in this series! — There has been a great deal of work done in recent years to “reclaim” the Goddess.…

This book is the bomb. Really. If you are truly interested in ancient Greek myth, you should own this book. It’s typically used as an college textbook in Mythology classes and has 1105 pages, but if you need just one…

Today is my birthday and I’m too exhausted to dress myself properly let alone do my classwork or write a coherent post. But life is good!

In 2005, the famous Margaret Atwood published The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus. Whether or not you have actually read the Odyssey (or generally know the story), it is interesting. It is the story from Penelope‘s point of…

Gut reaction, without thinking about it too much: Which are better, multi-generational households or nuclear familes? Why? A big controversy in scholarship on the Roman family (and history of the family in general) is whether multi-generational households or nuclear families…

Mahud, famous for his mythblog community organizing through the synchroblogs and also his awesome mythy pagan posts, has honored me by nominating this blog for the I Love Your Blog award. Now I get to pass the love on by…

I just got an email that brings up what I think is a very important point, and one that I give a great deal of thought to. Rather than attempt to summarize, I will include the email and my response…

Yep, it’s that time again. Mahud of Between Old and New Moons has declared that this month’s synchroblog (due Sep. 1) will be about Journeying To Otherworld. He’s got a nice list of invites, but if you’re interested, comment here…

I’m actually not in Ecuador anymore and have successfully moved across the United States to my new home by the University where I’m going for my MA and then PhD. That’s why 1) I haven’t posted recently and 2) I…

I got home yesterday from Ecuador and the nicest thing I saw when I got back to my place was my dear old reference books scattered all over the floor. There’s a bunch I rely on. I keep meaning to…

df at Breakfast With Pandora just wrote a fantastic post. I am jealous. I wish I’d written it. Starting off discussing Nausicaa, he soon moves into the power of stories (remembered myths) in shaping our lives and particularly the question…

There are a bunch of fascinating women – human women – in Greek myths. Though the overwhelming majority seem to be tragic figures (when they’re not totally insignificant), there are plenty of exceptions to the rule. If you’re not already…

You are Queen Metaneira. She was suprisingly normal for a character of Greek mythology. She was a good queen and loving mother. She was kind, and had a pretty normal life, until an act of god brought tragedy. Actually it…

Carol P. Christ, author of (most recently) She Who Changes: Re-imagining the Divine in the World and (most famously) Womanspirit Rising, has been blogging over at Women and Spirituality for some time now and I think she’s great. Over the…

I’ve been playing around with favicons recently – you know, those little things that pop up in the left corner of your browser’s address line – and I’m a little excited to finally have found something I kinda dig. It’s…