Tag Archives: Greek mythology

The goddess and the sexbot

Posted on April 22, 2017 by Frank

I have a copper figurine that I bought nineteen years ago in Athens. I paid more for it than I realised at the time, but it’s worth far more to me than I paid. While it does have a certain … Continue reading →

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beautiful

Posted on April 21, 2017 by Frank

helen was a sexbot built and programmed by gods to be given, and taken by men but… she was beautiful

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Cassandra

Posted on April 20, 2017 by Frank

“My lord,” she said, as Agamemnon took the reins. Around them the tired yet triumphant army, what was left of the Mycenaean contingent, hurried their slaves and the trophies of war they carried openly now into procession behind the king’s … Continue reading →

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Aphrodite’s Loves

Posted on February 14, 2017 by Frank

How could I not love Hephaestus? The singular passion of his love for me is a light that can never be extinguished. Even the goddess of love has need to be loved, and my husband’s divine heart is a wellspring … Continue reading →

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Helen and Paris

Posted on June 16, 2016 by Frank

spartan queen asking nothing for herself but herself of course helen fled an unloving heart cannot be endured beauty is a gift that a husband must keep chained no matter the tears a thousand ships launched? sails filled with whispers … Continue reading →

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a father’s love

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Frank

bridal offering a proud father marches her into the sunset blood of a virgin untouched by a father’s love first blood washing her father’s feet * cassandra wept – the last drop would be her own * medusa’s beauty masked … Continue reading →

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Iphigenia in Paradise

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Frank

Onomastics Outside the Box brought to my attention that Iphigenia is mentioned in Dante’s Divine Comedy, in Canto V of Paradise. I myself once followed Dante through Inferno and halfway up Purgatory, but never reached Paradise… I reached for my … Continue reading →

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Iphigenia

Posted on April 17, 2016 by Frank

whipped by seething winds great heroes seek the princess iphigenia thousand ships of war chased against the rocky shore whipped by seething winds the huntress enraged a father calls his daughter iphigenia achilles in haste treading an ambitious path whipped … Continue reading →

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author with a twitter app

Posted on May 27, 2014 by Frank

Another collection of haiku twittering from @AlinaMeridon… unending sadness her tears fill the seas with salt her sweet song summons golden-haired princess born of an ignoble king Iphigenia! aloof, yet regal loving, yet independent warm, cuddly killers chocolate cupcake looks … Continue reading →

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