Brick Bronze | Bronze Odyssey is not just about catching em' all. You'll have to prove yourself a successful trainer by collecting badges as you progress through different regions. Complete the story missions to earn Pokedollars, new Poke Balls, and more to keep catching better Pokemon and pu...
The Bronze House– Located on the Acropolis in Sparta. This temple is reputed to have been built by the mythical king Tyndareus and his sons Castor and Polydeuces. The Bronze House would become further famous during the 5thcentury B.C.E. when the Spartans killed the traitor, General Pausani...
As a physical locale, there are many regions in the underworld. The Greek mythographers weren’t consistent with the geography of the Underworld. Getting to the Underworld isn’t so easy as it’s located beneath the earth, obviously. In the Odyssey, the entrance is described as being at t...
Mother – Ljod, also spelled Hljod, Sigmund’s mother in the Völsunga. Consort – Borghild – His first wife. Sieglind – His wife in the Nibelungenlied. Sisibe – His wife in the Thiðrekssaga. Sibling – Brother–It’s mentioned that Sigmund has nine brothers, though none of the...
In Bronze Age Europe, the Celts and possibly others may have associated the Pleiades with grief, mourning and funerals. At this period of time and history, the time of the Autumn Equinox and Solstice would have occurred around the time that the Pleiades star cluster rose in the eastern skyli...
This story is told in the Odyssey, Book Eight by the blind singer Demodocus. This is also a story that probably began as a folk tale among the Greeks. The Sun-god Helios had spotted the two gods,Aresand Aphrodite in a tryst in the halls of Hephaestus. Helios went to inform Hephaestus...
Greece –We see ghosts or shades of the dead make appearances in both Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad where they appear as mist or vapor that vanishes, gibbering and moaning as they return to the earth and Underworld. These ghosts could do little to interact with the world other than give advic...
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It should be noted that the earlier mentions of Huang-Di, the Yellow Emperor is on a fourth century bronze inscription for the royal house of the Qi. This inscription claims Huang-Di as an ancestor to the Qi. The scholar, Lothar von Falkenhausen has suggested that Huang-Di is likely creat...
The Odyssey After the events of the Iliad and Trojan War, the titular hero, Odysseus earns Poseidon’s wrath after blinding his Cyclops son, Polyphemus. Such was Poseidon’s wrath, that it would take Odysseus ten years to make the return trip home to Ithaca. ...