Tag: Greek mythology

• March 2, 2023

  Babes in the Woods: Longus’ Daphnis & Chloe

  “[A]bsolutely no one has ever escaped Love nor ever shall, as long as beauty exists and eyes can see.” — Daphnis & Chloe, prologue “For our part, may the gods grant us proper detachment in depicting the story of others.” (ibid—and my new writing mantra) As threatened multiple times, we’re circling back to more of…
• January 12, 2023

  A (Fake) True Story: Lucian and the Birth of Modern Sci Fi

  “To put yourself in another man’s shoes and say what he would of said was a regular exercise of the schools, but to laugh in your sleeve as you said it was not the way of the ordinary rhetorician.” – A.M. Harmon (introduction to Phalaris) Okay, as promised, we’re going to talk about Lucian (c.…