What is it you mortals don’t understand about the number nine ? I hear you summon it in your stumbling modern speech — with your nine lives, your cloud nine, the whole nine yards, dressed to the nines. .. yet you still fail to grasp the essential essence of nine. Seguir leyendo »

Here we go again. More questions about the dates. Why you mortals decided to play around with calendars at all is beyond me and, even when you did this, you couldn’t reach any agreement with each other. No wonder you get confused. Seguir leyendo »

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Was there ever a horse like Bucephalos?

Bucephalos was as black as a crow’s wing at midnight in mid-winter. He was eighteen hands high, with a long powerful neck,  proud majestic head and was admired for his strength and beauty by all who saw him. What is less known, however, is that Bucephalos was a cantankerous nag. Seguir leyendo »

The story of Daphnis and Chloe must be the best loved of the Erotici Graeci, the Greek love stories that date from the early centuries of the Common Era. It’s a long, long story featuring sex, pirates, wars, supernatural events and some highly implausible plot elements. Seguir leyendo »

Hats are not merely to keep off the sun and the rain, but to mark a social rite, portray a religious belief, define the status and occupation of the user and to announce the extent of authority. Kings and Heroes wear hats, as do the Gods. Seguir leyendo »

The legendary library of Alexandria is not a myth. Seguir leyendo »

The story of Atlantis, a prosperous land that disappeared without trace, sunk into the sea by the anger of gods, is one of our oldest myths. Seguir leyendo »

I remember having to learn this sentence at school, it demonstrated a rule in Latin, a very important rule, one which I have completely forgotten. Seguir leyendo »