17- THE MOIRA OR THE FATES the 3 goddesses who determined human destinies especially the duration of one’s life and his share of misery. Latin name : the Parcae : Nona, Decuma, Morta There were 3 sisters: Clotho : the spinner determines the thread of human fate, Lachesis : the alloter who dispenses the good and bad …
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07. The Greek Pantheon.The Most Famous Gods: The Olympians
Greek Mythology has always been fascinating. That is why countless generations have been transmitting their extraordinary lives and adventures for about 3000 years. There were numerous gods and goddesses in Ancient Greece, each river, each whiff of wind was represented by a dedicated god or goddess. It allowed the men to understand their universe, to …
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06. Hesiod
In the time of Homer, around 750 and 650 BCE , Hesiod was a celebrated poet who is to our days still the major source about Greek mythology. He is also described as “the father of Greek Didactic Poetry” and the “first economist “. He himself attributed his poetic gifts to the Muses, who appeared …
05. The Cosmogony of Hesiod
«Declare to me from the beginning, you Mousai who dwell in the house of Olympos, and tell me which of them first came to be». In truth at first Khaos (Air) came to be, but next wide-bosomed Gaia (Earth), the ever-sure foundation of all the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympos, and …
04. The Primordial Gods
Chaos — the Void : Everything, everyone comes from the first reality which is Chaos, the void, the emptiness, the absence, the nothingness. According to Hesiod’s “Theogony” around 700 BCE, the first primordial entities to come out of Chaos were : Eros : the embodiment of love but more importantly the reproductive force. Without this force, …
03. The Creation of the Gods
How was the world created ? For the ancient Greeks the world was created out of nothing which they called Chaos. So as for some other Greek words the original meaning of the word has been mistaken and is now used with a whole different meaning : chaos didn’t meant disorder but nothingness, just like …
Remember the Great Plague of Athens
The word “Pandemic” has its origin in Ancient Greece and show that diseases have always been part of human history. Plague was already and insidiously present in the first monumental piece of western literature, The Iliad by Homer . The plague hit the Greek army at Troy after Agamemnon, the Greek leader, showed disrespect towards the god Apollo, …
Why a homage to the Greek Gods?
During the recent lockdown, we went to the rescue of our 87 years grand mother who was until then happily living alone in Paris. But with the Covid-19 spreading everywhere, how could we let her at her vulnerable age go food shopping in the highly contaminated city ? The plan was to go and take …
Stay Calm and Start Blogging
The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things.…hey.…the good things don’t always soften the bad things; but vice-versa the bad things don’t necessarily spoil the good things and make them unimportant. I’m the Doctor. Well, they call me the Doctor. I don’t know why. I call me …
The Life of Stuff
The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things.…hey.…the good things don’t always soften the bad things; but vice-versa the bad things don’t necessarily spoil the good things and make them unimportant. I’m the Doctor. Well, they call me the Doctor. I don’t know why. I call me …