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Falling for you. The dangers of unrequited love in Ancient Greece.

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Love on the rocks. Lefkada (or to use its earlier name Leucas) is located in the Ionian Sea. It was here that Aphrodite grieved for the loss of her lover Adonis and where she found a cure for her heartbreak (Aphrodite wasn’t the only deity to have a mixed record when it came to dating […]

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Eos and her lovers: Proof that the early bird gets the worm

The scene of a deity pursuing a mortal libinously is not exactly a rare event in antiquity. From vases to reliefs and even the backs of mirrors the love affairs of the Greek gods were an easy option for an artist to bake into life on a vase or tease out of marble. Normally the

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(please note that there is reference to suicide and murder as per the myths involved).

In this minisode I pick out some examples of gifts in ancient Mesopotamia and Greece where the outcome wasn’t as planned or it just went plain wrong. Let me know what you think by leaving a review or getting in touch.

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Music by Brakhage (Le Vrai Instrumental)

Some further reading:

Mueller, M. The Language of Reciprocity in Euripides’ Medea.

Oppenheim, AL. Letters from Mesopotamia.