Theogony – Works and Days Theogony – Works and Days by Hesiod Synopsis: Hesiod’s Theogony traces the origins of the cosmos from primordial Chaos, charting the births, alliances, and fierce struggles among gods, Titans, and monsters that culminate in Zeus’s triumphant establishment of divine order. In Works and Days, the poet addresses his wayward brother […]
Medea Medea by Euripides Synopsis: In exile in Corinth with Jason and their two sons, the sorceress Medea learns that her husband plans to abandon her for a younger princess, the daughter of King Creon. Facing banishment and the loss of her status, Medea feigns reconciliation while secretly plotting a devastating revenge against those who […]
The Eumenides The Eumenides by Aeschylus Synopsis: In Aeschylus’s concluding Greek tragedy The Eumenides, the third play in the Oresteia trilogy, the tormented Orestes flees to Athens seeking refuge from the relentless Furies who pursue him for matricide, appealing to Athena for judgment in a trial that pits ancient blood vengeance against emerging civic justice. […]
Agamemnon Agamemnon by Aeschylus Synopsis: In Aeschylus’s foundational Greek tragedy Agamemnon, the first play of the Oresteia trilogy, a watchman spots the long-awaited beacon signaling Troy’s fall, heralding King Agamemnon’s victorious return after ten years of war sparked by Paris’s abduction of Helen. As the Chorus of elders recounts Agamemnon’s sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia […]
D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths by Ingri d’Aulaire Synopsis: In this beloved children’s classic, it vividly retells the foundational stories of ancient Greek mythology, from the creation of the world by Gaea and the Titans to the rise of Zeus and the Olympian gods like Athena, Apollo, and Aphrodite, and […]
The Odyssey The Odyssey by Homer Synopsis: In Homer’s enduring ancient epic The Odyssey, the resourceful king Odysseus endures a perilous ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, facing mythical trials like the Cyclops, Sirens, and other monsters, and divine wrath from Poseidon, while relying on his cunning and the aid of gods […]
https://media.blubrry.com/cavetothecross/cavetothecross.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Ilium-by-Dan-Simmons_1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadIlium By Dan Simmons Ilium By Dan Simmons Synopsis: 21st-century professor Thomas Hockenberry has been brought back from the dead by the Greek gods to witness and write down the evens of the Illiad and make sure everything turns out the way Homer described it. Things don’t go as […]
