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Musings From Ancient Greece

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Mythology MA and storyteller takes you on a lyrical journey through the sites and monuments of ancient Greece, sharing her photos, memories, and knowledge of Greek art, temples, gods and goddesses, and the classical world. Includes links to useful ancient Greece websites and lots of good book recommendations!

Added on: Aug 5th, 2007
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Greekgeek
Listed in: Education & Learning Travel
Tags: travel blog greece archaeology greek ancient world classical art

Recent Posts

Travel Diary: Mycenae Museum

Posted on Saturday April 26th, 2008 at 01:23 in museum, update, diary entry, mycenae

6th May 2005The Mycenae Museum displays artifacts found in more recent excavations of the citadel and its surroundings: pottery, stone weights once used to anchor the warp-threads of a hanging loom, stylize clay figures of farmers ploughing behind ox...
A Few Other Greece-Related Lenses

Posted on Tuesday April 15th, 2008 at 09:15 in update, Recommended links

Homebuying has been quite an odyssey, and will keep me busy a little longer. Right now I'm flushing out the Augean Stables!In the meantime, let me point you to my other Greece-related lenses, each focusing on one topic:The Trireme Olympias: Reconstru...
Mythology Blog: MYTHPRINT (for now)

Posted on Friday February 29th, 2008 at 00:06 in myth, mythology, myth of the week

So, what have I been doing (besides getting ready to buy a home)?Well, the Myth of the, ahem, week column never worked quite right on the front page of Ancient Greece Odyssey. Let's own up -- I was trying to get refreshing content to bring visitors b...
Travel Diary: Mycenae (Treasury of Atreus)

Posted on Monday February 4th, 2008 at 08:13 in archaeology, photo gallery, diary entry, bronze age, mycenaean, mycenae, tholos, helladic

The Lion Gate of MycenaeThen the goddess the ox-eyed lady Hera answered:"Of all cities there are three that are dearest to my own heart:Argos and Sparta and Mykenai of the wide ways."Iliad 4.50-52, Lattimore translationIn Ancient Greece Odyssey Part ...
Answers to Common Questions about Ancient Greece and Mythology

Posted on Sunday February 3rd, 2008 at 21:12 in goddess, map, update, pagan, myth, Gods, mythology, gods and goddesses

Squidoo, the odd service I use to host Ancient Greece Odyssey, has a tool that tracks what phrases people have Googled to find a lens.I noticed a lot of fact-finding queries like "ancient Greece timeline" and "pictures of Greek gods and goddesses." A...
Myth of the Month: Herakles and the Hydra

Posted on Tuesday January 29th, 2008 at 05:35 in sculpture, museum, myth, athens, hera, myth of the week, herakles

Last month I told you about the first of Herakles' twelve labors, slaying the fearsome Nemean Lion.It's time for labor number two! As I mentioned before, Herakles' labors are mostly exterminator jobs, and this one is no exception. Herakles was called...