http://blog.paleothea.com thoughts on and introductions to the females in Greek myths Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:13:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I honestly thought that the next entry I posted was going to say, "Sorry, I'm done with this blog. See you in a few years!" But then someone sent me an email asking me to fix my entry on Medusa to reflect that Medusa was raped by Poseidon and thus ... http://blog.paleothea.com/?p=110 I've been working up to writing this post for over a month, ever since Wendy responded to The Dangers of de-Mystification. I can't address the whole thing in one post, so this will have to be a series. But by the end of this post, I hope to demonstrate a ... http://blog.paleothea.com/?p=109 I loved this book, but it's taken me a year to figure out why. Sure, the writing was good - a more lit-y than the genre fic I usually read, something I had to chew and savor instead of swallowing down like cotton candy (which is NOT to say that ... http://blog.paleothea.com/?p=108 Hey guys, have you heard? There's been a shift in Amazon Rank and stories like the ones you come to Women in Greek Myths to enjoy are in danger. That's right, in the name of protecting kids from "adult" material, anything containing sexual, erotic, romantic, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered or ... http://blog.paleothea.com/?p=107 I loved Greek myths when I was little. I loved that Athena trounced Ares on the regular and that she cared about the same kind of book-learning wisdom that I, and my privileged family, loved. I loved that Hera, for all that she was kind of annoying, did not just ... http://blog.paleothea.com/?p=106 The truth is, even though there is SO much more to be said about the Greek goddesses, I'm just not spending much time thinking about them anymore. In fact, other than slowly reading Kirk Ormand's book Controlling Desires: Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome, I'm really not thinking about the ... http://blog.paleothea.com/?p=105 I know people don't come here for the book reviews, but IF you are interested in awesome children's books like me, you should go get Lugalbanda: The Boy Who Got Caught Up in a War: An Epic Tale From Ancient Iraq. Although this is certainly something you could (slowly) read ... http://blog.paleothea.com/?p=104 So, for a while there, I was thinking about seeing if I was inspired to do something like Women in Greek Myths about Celtic junk. So I started the same I way I did when I was 13, compiling names and writing short descriptions. Slowly expanding my repertoire and leaving ... http://blog.paleothea.com/?p=103 Well, I'm branching out a little today. Below I've linked to the hour and 20 minute movie "Sita Sings the Blues." It's the story of Sita (and Rama) as well as the contemporary story of the marriage of animator, Nina, all set to a collection of really amazing animation styles ... http://blog.paleothea.com/?p=102 As I mentioned in the last post, I am doing a bit of introspection about why I bother to write here (this blog and this site more generally). The answer is that I wanted to know about women in Greek myths. Duh. But, really, that's it. I mean, I wanted to ... http://blog.paleothea.com/?p=101