Ancient Greek Mystery – Who Destroyed the Sacred Herms of Athens?
One bright and sunny morning in June, the seventh to be exact, in the year of 415 B.C., the citizens of Athens, awoke to the news, that during the night, all over...
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Twin Flames – The Ancient Greek Story of One Soul Split into Two
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle – Ancient Greek philosopher In these days of New Age spiritualism, a form of Western esotericism which emerged in the early...
Eros and Psyche – The Greatest Love Story in Ancient Greece
In the Greek myth of Eros and psyche the two lovers find out that the path to true love can be a rough and rocky road. More often than not it will be...
Plato’s Academy Athens – First University in the World
One of “The Big Three”, the philosopher, Plato, who was a student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle, founded the Platonic Academy of Athens. The Academy of ancient Athens, the turning point...
10 Ancient Greek Myths about Birds
In ancient Greece birds represented power, freedom and wisdom and show up in numerous Greek myths and legends where they most often appear as messengers of the gods, oracles and even gods themselves....
Aphrodite of Knidos – The Most Copied Statue in the World
During the Hellenistic and Roman periods, statues of Aphrodite were everywhere; mostly modeled on Praxiteles’ Aphrodite of Knidos (around 364 BC), the first nude female Greek statue and the most widely copied...
Saint Barbara the Great Martyr – Beheaded by her Father
Saint Barbara, a third-century martyr, lived in Nicomedia with her rich pagan father, Dioscorus, who imprisoned her in a tower and after discovering she had secretly become a Christian, beheaded Barbara himself...
Ancient Pinecone Magic and Symbolism
Images of pinecones, sacred eyes and not least, the thyrsus, the ancient Greek magic wand, have been associated with the pineal gland (named after the pinecone) since ancient times and pop up...
The Smyrna Catastrophe 1922 – End of Greco -Turkish War
On September 13th, 1922, Smyrna (now Izmir), one of the wealthiest cities of the Ottoman Empire, on the Aegean coast of Anatolia, inhabited mostly by Greeks, Jews and Armenians, went up in...
The Pharmakos – The Ancient Greek Scapegoat
The expression “scapegoat”, known as the “pharmakos”, in ancient Greece, describes an innocent person or group who is blamed and usually punished in some way for other people’s wrong-doings or problems. They...
