Category: Myths
Works of mythology in general, and more specifically including the Mythoversal projects: Becoming Hercules, Rage, and Amazons at Troy
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The Pivot
Something big is on the way… There was no new Rage this past Sunday. As announced last week, I’m pivoting away from retelling Epic Cycle works to focus on an original work of serialized fiction set in the world of Mythoversal Hellas. This will be a new adaptation of a manuscript I’ve been developing for…
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Sentient Magic, Part 2
Fishbone’s First Rule of Storytelling with Gods: If you experience a deus-ex-machina ending, be prepared to suffer in the sequel. Greg R. Fishbone Programming Notes This week’s Rage, “Something Holy and Immortal,” is the 27th weekly installment of my Iliad retelling and an uninterrupted string of weekly postings in verse. It’s been a fun and…
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Hercules, Heracles, and…Melqart?!
The secret recipe for this legendary strongman is one part Greek, one part Roman, and some unknown quantity of Phoenician. My teachers taught me that Hercules was the Roman version of Heracles, the legendary Greek strongman who was elevated after his death into a god of strength and heroism. Same character, same stories, in a…
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LGBTQ Representation in Greek Mythology
Disrupting the Trojan War: Part 4 Ancient myths would have been useful tools for people to work through gender, orientation, and other identity issues in a safe space. You Are Here… …at the fourth in a planned series of five essays on disrupting ancient texts. These essays present my own understanding as I continue to…
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Neurodiversity in Greek Mythology
Disrupting the Trojan War: Part 3 When the Trojans confused neurodivergence with madness, they missed their best chance to save their civilization from collapse. You Are Here… …at the third in a planned series of five essays on disrupting ancient texts. These essays present my own understanding as I continue to evolve the approach I’m…
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Disrupting the Trojan War
More women with agency are restoring inclusion, diversity, and equity to classical texts. 1. More Women with Agency Powerful goddesses feature prominently throughout Greek mythology. The Trojan War is, in a way, just one link in the chain of events set off by Eris, the goddess of discord. And with the continuing rivalry among Hera,…
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When Agamemnon Slayed the Minotaur
Terry Gilliam’s “TIME BANDITS” through a mythological lens I was reminded recently of Time Bandits, the 1981 movie from director Terry Gilliam. In the film, an eleven-year-old boy named Kevin, portrayed by Craig Warnock, falls in with a group of diminutive thieves who have stolen a map to secret passages built into the fabric of…
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Wonder Woman 1984
The new Wonder Woman movie applies lessons from Hesiod’s Third Age of Humankind Through a Mythological Lens: Wonder Woman has been inspired by Greek mythology from her earliest comic book incarnation, and through many other versions including her most recent big screen (or HBO Max) incarnation. Because of her longstanding prominence, the DC Comics and…
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Your June 2017 Check-In
It’s been a while since I’ve posted an update to let everyone know what’s happening in the Fishbone Literary Universe. I’m sorry for the radio silence. I’ll try to do better going forward. Here’s where we stand at the end of June 2017: Today, June 30th, is World Asteroid Day. Out of an estimated million-plus asteroids…