Greco-Roman Archives | Operation: Brain Leak https://www.operationbrainleak.com/tag/greco-roman/ Thu, 04 Aug 2016 16:19:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 211746410 The Legend of Atlantis https://www.operationbrainleak.com/the-legend-of-atlantis/ Sun, 03 Nov 2013 00:00:16 +0000 http://www.operationbrainleak.com/?p=302 The primary source for the legend of the lost city of Atlantis is Critias, a dialogue by Plato dating to around 360 BCE. The text is unclear whether Atlantis was a real nation, destroyed in a natural disaster, or an allegory intended to teach a lesson. The dialogue was either left unfinished or the ending …

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]]> 302 Isis and Demeter https://www.operationbrainleak.com/isis-and-demeter/ Wed, 03 Jul 2013 00:00:35 +0000 http://www.operationbrainleak.com/?p=623 While reading the Egyptian myth of the death of Osiris, I was struck by the similarities in Isis’s search for Osiris’s body and the Greek myth of Demeter’s (Ceres) search for Persephone (Proserpina). In the Egyptian myth, Isis searched the world for Osiris’s body, locked inside a casket. She discovered that the casket had been …

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