Category Archives: Greek Giants
2012: A Giant Year for Giant Movies!
Giants are so cool. 2011 may be almost over, and the Hitch and Kim Jong Il are no longer with us – but 2012 brings us two movies featuring Giants! 1. Wrath of the Titans – featuring the titanomachy in 3-D, … Continue reading
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New online version of Liddell-Scott-Jones (LSJ)
Following five years of hard work, “The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) is proud to announce the release of a new online version of Liddell-Scott-Jones (LSJ), the premier lexicon for classical Greek.” Subscribers have access to the full LSJ. But even … Continue reading
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The Use of Myth in History: Ken Dowden
Monsters exist in order to be defeated and, preferably, slain. (134) Ken Dowden’s The Uses of Greek Mythology (Routledge, 1992) provides an excellent guide to the ways in which Greek myth was used to construct Greek historiography that was set in the more remote … Continue reading
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