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Besides myth and history (i'm a history major), I study anthropology, and have interests in art history, religion, and psychoanalytic theory, particularly that of Carl G. Jung.

I am currently a history major with a minor in anthropology. After completing undergrad, I plan to pursue Masters degrees in both Library Science and Information Tech. The plan is to be an archivist or to work in a museum. : ) You can follow my personal journal of campus life at...

Has anyone read it? Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley is a must-read for anyone interested in Arthurian legend. It's a retelling from the women's perspective. In saying that, it is written in a certain feminist rhetoric, but mostly it's about the transition of society from old ways of...

Ancient art is fascinating to me in that it always has a higher meaning or symbolism, usually religious, in stark contrast to modern art created purely for art's sake, if you will. The most iconic pieces, it seems, are part of a story, or depict a mythological character. What are your...

I picked Egyptian, because I like Egyptian history and have studied art history in Egypt, but I don't limit myself to what I know and have many other interests in mythology.

I agree completely that films are made in a way to entertain, and that as such shouldn't always be taken all that seriously. But I do think that they should at least somewhat reflect history. If something is way off, like you said, I'm immediately thrown off even for entertainment's sake.

This is when the Romans start using volcanic cement for their roads, Virgil writes the Aeneid, and Augustus writes Res Gestae, or "things done." Interesting side note: Augustus gets his own month, August, which absolutely must have at least 31 days (dripping sarcasm), because July does (Julius...

This is also true. Octavian really will be the death of the Republic in that his one-man rule will be unchallenged. He feigns reluctance in returning to Rome to rule after the 31 B.C. Battle of Actium in 31 B.C. in which he defeated Marc Antony and Cleopatra, who both commited suicide...

Indeed it was. The Republic was extremely wary of any one man having too much power. This is why there were always two consuls with equal authority. Caesar gained near obsessive loyalty from his troops and a celebrity/hero type reputation with the Romans during his conquests in Gaul. The...

Medusa is interesting in the way she impacts Greek culture. Many warriors, including Alexander the Great (even though he wasn't necessarily Greek), wore an emblem of Medusa's face on the chest of their armor as a kind of scare tactic, purely symbolic obviously.

Do you ever find yourself watching a film, and generally enjoying it until, not just a few details, but something so historically inaccurate just ruins the whole experience? How do you judge accuracy in fictional movies or books? Should it matter?

Everyone's heard the story of Romulus and Remus, but there is another founding story of Rome. When Rome was under Etruscan rule, benefiting from their art, culture, and architecture, a certain nobleman's wife, Lucretia, was sexually harassed by an Etruscan prince. She was so conservative and...

I can't verify that this is true, but I've heard that the idiom, "low man on the totem pole" might not be a negative in actuality, as the lower one was, the "higher" their standing. Can anyone verify this? What else do you know about totems? Not limited to Native North Americans.

In Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur, Merlin says that the scabbard is worth more because as long as Arthur wore it, his wounds would not bleed. Such is also the case in the modern retelling, Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley in which Morgaine, or Morgan le Fey, fashioned the scabbard for Arthur.

I am currently completing my degree in History and a minor in Anthropology. Also, I have been studying Carl Jung's psycho-analytic theory and his thoughts on myth and the collective unconscious.

My favorite Greek deity is the winged goddess Victory, called the Nike. Nike, the company, derived their name from her but it is pronounced different. The Nike would fly down and alight on a ship during a major naval battle and announce the victor. Her image is also supposedly where we get...

We talked about a "Great Serpent Mound" in Ohio in as Art History class I took last semester. One theory we discussed as to what inspired it was the correlation in the date it has been estimated to have been built, and Halley's Comet in 1066CE.

I'm a history major currently pursuing a BA. My favorite courses so far have been Ancient Mediterranean, Art History: Prehistory-1400, Women in History, and World Empires. While we surveyed the Egyptians briefly in Ancient Med, I would like to take a class specifically to Egypt, as well as a...

After reading Marion Zimmer Bradley's Mists of Avalon, the various moon symbols associated with the goddess are beautiful to me.

Not the most important, but my favorite Norse goddesses are the Valkyries, who decide who lives and dies in battle. From the dead, they choose warriors to become einherjar.