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Reboot The Restless Dead: Ghosts of Ancient Greece
Reboot The Restless Dead: Ghosts of Ancient Greece

For Halloween, we’re reposting our 2024 episode The Restless Dead: Ghosts of Ancient Greece.Today’s horror movies owe a debt to the Ancient Greeks, whose vengeful wraiths, protective spirits, and restless dead summoned to serve the living influenced art, literature, music and our fear of things that go bump in the night.

Reboot The Restless Dead: Ghosts of Ancient Greece
Pamela Diotes Wood
Ancient Greece, civilization, culture, ethnic, Funeral Rites, Ghosts, Greek, Greek gods, Greek heroes, Greek protection, Greek theater, Greeks, Hauntings, History, Homer, mythology, rituals, superstition, The Restless Dead, traditionPamela Diotes Wood#restlessdead, #ghosts, #ancientgreece, #funeralrites, #hauntings, #history, #greekhistory, #greekculture, #culture, #ethnicComment
Hephaestus: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
Hephaestus: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places

Hephaestos: Mighty lord of fire and metalwork, inventor and metal-smith of the gods. Cheated on, rejected, and ridiculed, like a country music anti-hero, he keeps looking for love in all the wrong places.

Hephaestus: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
Pamela Diotes Wood
Ancient Greece, Apollo, Athena, Dionysus, Greek, Greek gods, Homer, Mt. Olympus, mythologyPamela Diotes Wood#hephaestus, #greekgods, #olympus, #godoffire, #aphrodite, #mythologyComment
When Things Get Phríke: The Furies
When Things Get Phríke: The Furies

When the Underworld goddesses of vengeance are invoked, nothing will stop them. Then things get Phríke: Tales and terrors of the Erinyes, hounding heroes to their doom.

When Things Get Phríke: The Furies
Pamela Diotes Wood
Ancient Greece, Apollo, Athena, culture, Demons, Greek, Greek gods, Greek heroes, heroes, Homer, Mt. Olympus, rituals, superstition, TroyPamela Diotes Wood#erinyes, #thefuries, #goddessesofvengeance, #phrike, #goddessorhorror, #torment, #orestes, #bloodguilt, #Apollo, #Athena, #patriarchyComment
The Restless Dead: Ghosts of Ancient Greece
The Restless Dead: Ghosts of Ancient Greece

Join us for an episode of restless dead, vengeful wraiths, protective spirits, and ghosts summoned to serve the living.

The Restless Dead: Ghosts of Ancient Greece
Pamela Diotes Wood
Ancient Greece, Athens, culture, Demons, ethnic, Greek, Greek heroes, history, Homer, mythology, rituals, The Trojan War, Ghosts, Hauntings, Funeral Rites, The Restless DeadPamela Diotes Wood#restlessdead, #ghosts, #ancientgreece, #funeralrites, #homer, #theiliad, #theodyssey, #hauntings, #greekhistory, #greekculture, #ethnic, #greeklikemeComment
Homer, Ancient Greece, and the Father of Archaeology with Thaao Penghlis
Homer, Ancient Greece, and the Father of Archaeology with Thaao Penghlis

Join us for an intriguing conversation with Thaao Penghlis about the quest for Priam’s treasure, the Lion Gate at Mycenae and the lost tomb of Alexander the Great. We’ll talk about his travels. And his podcast, Thaao Penghlis’s The Lost Treasures, when he follows the path of 19th century Homer fanboy Heinrich Schliemann in his hunt to prove that the people and places of the Illiad were real.

Thaao Penghlis's The Lost Treasures Episode 1

Parthenon by Costa-Gavras

Homer, Ancient Greece, and the Father of Archaeology with Thaao Penghlis
Pamela Diotes Wood
Thaao Penghlis, Archaeology, Ancient Greece, Homer, ancient ruins, civilization, culture, TroyPamela Diotes Wood#thaaopenghlis, #thelosttreasures, #ancientgreece, #theilliad, #theodyssey, #homer, #heinrichschliemann, #priam, #troy, #theliongateofmycenae, #robertbittlestone, #Ithaka, #alexanderthegreat, #egypt, #greece, #history, #greekhistory, #scienceComment