In Ithaca, people put up the strangest graffiti. Someone tried to blot it out and was only successful at removing the last half of the name, Diogenes (a Cynic philosopher). The full quotation reads, ...
I do not know Modern or Ancient Greek. Instead, I use the power of the Internet to look up specific words and figure out their relationships to one another. Of course, I often trust modern translator...
The meditations on the Delphic Maxims blossoming around the blogosphere give me mixed feelings. I think there is great value in exploring Hellenism’s various ethical and moral frameworks and that the...
I have another month in Upstate NY in a region I love before moving to Connecticut, specifically the coast, to start a new job and a new life towards the end of June.It makes me sad to think that I o...
Thou beginnest accordingly by saying: “In the first place, it is to be taken for granted that there are gods.” Speaking in this way is not right. For the inborn knowledge in respect to the gods is co...
So, I’ve been incommunicado for a while. Most of that involved finishing graduate school. Things are officially done now that I have walked, with an unofficial to-do list of needing to E-mail people ...
Image: Tip of a pen resting on a piece of notebook paper. Text reads, “Anthesteria is snow blossoming in the sky and wine freezing on the muddy ground.” Date below written in cursive, 5 March 2012.
Collage of three images. Top left: Broken ice. Lower left: Slumbering vines over wood. Right: A dry, dead flower husk with soft focus, just barely catching the light from the setting sun, above the s...
Collage: Large image (left), showing an image of bearded, ivy-wreathed Dionysos, wine, grape-embossed candle snuffer, incense bowl, and unlit candle. Image (top right) closeup of Dionysos and wine. I...
Dver wrote a post about the importance of research and using your library resources that I think highlights why there is no excuse for a lack of intellectual rigor about one’s spirituality. I’d like ...
I wrote a poem last night for the first time in about a month, and now I’m blogging for the first time in about a month as well.The past few weeks have gone by like a whirlwind moderated by my Google...
You may have noticed that my blog looks different now. I’ve moved the tag cloud to the bottom of the page and have switched from my custom theme to one Blogger provides, primarily because I may want ...
τελεῖ δὲ θεῶν δύναμις καὶ τὰν παρ᾽ ὅρκον καὶ παρὰ ἐλπίδα κούφαν κτίσιν.The power of the gods accomplishes as a light achievement what is contrary to oaths and expectations.Olympian XIII: For Xenophon...
The resolutions I have made for the new secular year all involve becoming a healthier person in different ways, both physically and spiritually. Sometimes, I feel like my religious devotion peaked be...
I have gotten somewhat bad about finding and adding new blogs. When I started blogging about Hellenism a few years ago, I think I had more fingers than there were blogs. Sannion was still on LJ and t...
The other day, I was doing research about Buddhism for a writing project, and I stumbled across something on Tricycle’s blog that looked interesting. The guest post, “Dying with Confidence,” discusse...
From Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott’s An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon:δόξα, n.[....]II. 1. the opinion which others have of one, estimation, reputation, credit, honour, glory, ...
“Mom, do you think your husband’s mother will try to invoke Jesus again at Thanksgiving?”It was an honest question. My mom said, “She didn’t last year.”“Yes, she did. Didn’t she?”One of my sisters no...
Just over a week ago, I checked Sarah Iles Johnston’s Restless Dead out from my university’s library. Tonight, after reading the first two chapters, I wish I owned a copy so I could start markin...
For everyone who didnt notice me freaking out on Google+ or Twitter exactly two weeks ago, the motherboard on my laptop died. The computer was just out of warranty and several years old, so fixing it...
The Erinyes and I first met during a time sort of like now.When I get creative, my head sort of spins about and it’s really difficult to think about anything besides stories. These episodes have tend...
There is a song from Sesame Street’s Don’t Eat the Pictures in which Oscar finds himself in a room of Greek and Roman art. As we know, some of the statues from this period were intentionally rui...
At sunset on October 2nd, the fifth day of the lunar month begins: the day sacred to Erinyes and to Horkos. With the midnight hour, the DC 40 prayer initiative begins an attack on religious liberty a...
Star Foster made a thought-provoking post over at Patheos’s Pagan Portal about her take on 9/11. I could talk about her arguments all day, but the real piece that I want to talk about here is this: “...
Today, I made an amazing discovery via On Being.There are a lot of superheroes who describe themselves as wholly or partially members of “Greco-Roman classical religion.” Whatever that actually is, a...
This past week has been a blur: moving; discovering one roommate’s room is infested with some kind of insect; bringing my cat to my mom’s house during the fumigation/my mom’s handfasting; and dealing...
On Saturday, I moved into my new apartment. It is absolutely gorgeous: walking distance from campus; a neighborhood where it is probably safe to walk after dark in a group of three or more people and...
The Finger Lakes are numinous, and I have spent the past week making offerings to the spirits of the land before I make my way back up to Syracuse. A conversation I had last year with someone into Ne...
On the National Mall in 2008, I had a conversation with a Hare Krishna that went something like this:Me: I already have gods.Woman: Oh, who do you worship?Me: Im a devotee of Apollôn.Woman: Oh. Well,...
I have seen that 30 Days meme. Something in me just despises the Gregorian calendar, but I liked some of the post ideas and made up some of my own based on the lunar calendar — more specifically, I t...
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