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"01a087e9-446c-72ee-abe2-3533dcf4676c", "title": "Is Edward Gibbon’s ‘The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’ Worth Reading Today?", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2026/05/07/is-edward-gibbons-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire-worth-reading-today/", "published_at": "2026-05-07T22:40:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e9-446c-72ee-abe2-3533dd94ddcb", "title": "Did Ancient Civilizations Have Organized Crime?", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2026/03/16/did-ancient-civilizations-have-organized-crime/", "published_at": "2026-03-17T04:37:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e9-446c-72ee-abe2-3533de5c34db", "title": "How an Obscure Character in the ‘Iliad’ Gave Us the English Word ‘Pander’", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2025/12/21/how-an-obscure-character-in-the-iliad-gave-us-the-english-word-pander/", "published_at": "2025-12-22T01:59:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e9-446c-72ee-abe2-3533df4a9d26", "title": "Ancient and Medieval People Believed that Unicorns Were Real—and Murderous", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2025/12/07/ancient-and-medieval-people-believed-that-unicorns-were-real-and-murderous/", "published_at": "2025-12-08T01:07:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38a-5102-7223-b4be-d613deb71d61", "title": "Scholars Have Discovered How to Pronounce the True Name of God", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2025/11/26/scholars-have-discovered-how-to-pronounce-the-true-name-of-god/", "published_at": "2025-11-26T11:01:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38a-5102-7223-b4be-d613dfb5ed6f", "title": "Is Athena Named After Athens, or Vice Versa?", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2025/10/20/is-athena-named-after-athens-or-vice-versa/", "published_at": "2025-10-21T01:16:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38a-5102-7223-b4be-d613e06b2818", "title": "Update on My First Few Weeks of Law School, the Future of This Blog, and My Novel (September 2nd, 2025)", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2025/09/02/update-on-my-first-few-weeks-of-law-school-the-future-of-this-blog-and-my-novel-september-2nd-2025/", "published_at": "2025-09-02T06:28:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38a-5102-7223-b4be-d613e0edd0dc", "title": "Why Do Ancient Egyptian Gods Have Animal Heads???", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2025/07/31/why-do-ancient-egyptian-gods-have-animal-heads/", "published_at": "2025-08-01T03:58:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38a-5102-7223-b4be-d613e127b3ce", "title": "What Was the First Conlang?", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2025/07/07/what-was-the-first-conlang/", "published_at": "2025-07-07T15:32:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38a-5102-7223-b4be-d613e18b64c6", "title": "Well, I’m Going to Law School", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2025/07/05/well-im-going-to-law-school/", "published_at": "2025-07-05T07:01:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38a-5102-7223-b4be-d613e1b92038", "title": "Why Are Oxbridge Professors, Catholic Priests, and Crime Bosses All Called ‘Don’?", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2025/05/09/why-are-oxbridge-professors-catholic-priests-and-crime-bosses-all-called-don/", "published_at": "2025-05-10T03:40:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38a-5102-7223-b4be-d613e1dde06e", "title": "Lost Ancient Cities That No One Has Ever Found", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2025/04/22/lost-ancient-cities-that-no-one-has-ever-found/", "published_at": "2025-04-22T17:11:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38a-5102-7223-b4be-d613e2b938be", "title": "Everything I Liked and Hated about Uberto Pasolini’s ‘The Return’ (2024)", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2025/03/14/everything-i-liked-and-hated-about-uberto-pasolinis-the-return-2024/", "published_at": "2025-03-15T02:09:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38a-cb3c-732e-b8ac-3525ed6cf2e6", "title": "Update (February 28th, 2025)", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2025/02/28/update-february-28th-2025/", "published_at": "2025-02-28T19:31:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38a-cb3c-732e-b8ac-3525edc87cca", "title": "Update (February 5th, 2025)", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2025/02/05/update-february-5th-2025/", "published_at": "2025-02-05T10:41:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38a-cb3c-732e-b8ac-3525eea321a8", "title": "Update (January 10th, 2025)", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2025/01/10/update-january-10th-2025/", "published_at": "2025-01-10T20:18:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38a-cb3c-732e-b8ac-3525eef842c2", "title": "Update (December 27th, 2024)", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2024/12/27/update-december-27th-2024/", "published_at": "2024-12-27T21:40:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38a-cb3c-732e-b8ac-3525ef8ae13c", "title": "Update (December 5th, 2024)", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2024/12/05/update-december-5th-2024/", "published_at": "2024-12-05T19:39:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38a-cb3c-732e-b8ac-3525efb59af1", "title": "A Post-Election Update (November 17th, 2024)", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2024/11/17/a-post-election-update-november-17th-2024/", "published_at": "2024-11-17T23:59:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38a-cb3c-732e-b8ac-3525eff438ab", "title": "An Update on My Novel in Progress (October 5th, 2024)", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2024/10/05/an-update-on-my-novel-in-progress-october-5th-2024/", "published_at": "2024-10-05T22:46:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38a-cb3c-732e-b8ac-3525f0da6b5a", "title": "Advice on Reading Homer in Translation", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2024/09/15/advice-on-reading-homer-in-translation/", "published_at": "2024-09-15T13:31:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38a-cb3c-732e-b8ac-3525f10ecc71", "title": "What’s the Problem with Elon Musk’s ‘Iliad’ Advice?", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2024/08/28/whats-the-problem-with-elon-musks-iliad-advice/", "published_at": "2024-08-28T05:43:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38a-cb3c-732e-b8ac-3525f1866570", "title": "Why Greece Hasn’t Rebuilt the Agora", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2024/08/07/why-greece-hasnt-rebuilt-the-agora/", "published_at": "2024-08-08T02:01:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38b-3b12-73ed-a10c-1d3fe28c4c3f", "title": "New Fragments of Euripides Discovered!", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2024/08/02/new-fragments-of-euripides-discovered/", "published_at": "2024-08-03T02:33:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38b-3b12-73ed-a10c-1d3fe32cf2f0", "title": "An Update on My Novel in Progress (June 25th, 2024)", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2024/06/25/an-update-on-my-novel-in-progress-june-25th-2024/", "published_at": "2024-06-26T03:58:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38b-3b12-73ed-a10c-1d3fe3fb6f4a", "title": "A Personal Update (June 1st, 2024)", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2024/06/01/a-personal-update-june-1st-2024/", "published_at": "2024-06-02T00:30:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38b-3b13-73dd-a34b-719f7445ec77", "title": "Did Julius Caesar Really Say “The Die Is Cast”?", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2024/05/08/did-julius-caesar-really-say-the-die-is-cast/", "published_at": "2024-05-08T21:03:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38b-3b13-73dd-a34b-719f753337e1", "title": "In Defense of Hegelochos", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2024/05/07/in-defense-of-hegelochos/", "published_at": "2024-05-07T19:21:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38b-3b13-73dd-a34b-719f75c06a3a", "title": "What Do the Newly-Read Herculaneum Papyri Actually Tell Us about Plato?", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2024/04/30/what-do-the-newly-read-herculaneum-papyri-actually-tell-us-about-plato/", "published_at": "2024-04-30T17:56:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38b-3b13-73dd-a34b-719f7637c739", "title": "Did Any Non-Israelite Ancient Cultures Have Their Own “Bibles”?", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2024/04/12/did-any-non-israelite-ancient-cultures-have-their-own-bibles/", "published_at": "2024-04-13T03:41:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38b-3b13-73dd-a34b-719f764036da", "title": "When and How Did Modern Westerners Learn about Egyptian Myth?", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2024/04/06/when-and-how-did-modern-westerners-learn-about-egyptian-myth/", "published_at": "2024-04-07T00:51:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38b-3b13-73dd-a34b-719f770884d3", "title": "Why Were Elaborate Floor Mosaics More Common in Antiquity Than Today?", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2024/03/21/why-were-elaborate-floor-mosaics-more-common-in-antiquity-than-today/", "published_at": "2024-03-22T00:20:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38b-3b13-73dd-a34b-719f776ab8ed", "title": "Update on My PhD Applications (March 10th, 2024)", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2024/03/10/update-on-my-phd-applications-march-10th-2024/", "published_at": "2024-03-10T06:43:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38b-9bce-735a-b87c-4c73163442c2", "title": "Why Prehistoric Matriarchy Wasn’t a Thing (A Brief Explanation)", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2024/02/05/why-prehistoric-matriarchy-wasnt-a-thing-a-brief-explanation/", "published_at": "2024-02-05T08:19:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38b-9bce-735a-b87c-4c7316c5f9fe", "title": "Don’t Blame “Paganism” for the United States’ Problems", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2024/01/14/dont-blame-paganism-for-the-united-states-problems/", "published_at": "2024-01-14T21:50:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38b-9bce-735a-b87c-4c7317af3ac6", "title": "The Ancient Greeks Invented the Fashion Doll Over 2,500 Years Before Barbie", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2023/12/27/the-ancient-greeks-invented-the-fashion-doll-over-2500-years-before-barbie/", "published_at": "2023-12-27T12:06:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38b-9bce-735a-b87c-4c7317e9f028", "title": "Update: I Have Applied to PhD Programs Again! 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Thinking about the Roman Empire?", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2023/09/17/why-do-men-spend-so-much-time-thinking-about-the-roman-empire/", "published_at": "2023-09-17T17:21:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-0cae-729d-a8ba-0f68f1b04f51", "title": "My Exciting Adventure in Greece, Part 7", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2023/09/06/my-exciting-adventure-in-greece-part-7/", "published_at": "2023-09-06T05:20:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-0cae-729d-a8ba-0f68f1d9f5f7", "title": "My Exciting Adventure in Greece, Part 6", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2023/08/22/my-exciting-adventure-in-greece-part-6/", "published_at": "2023-08-22T07:45:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-0cae-729d-a8ba-0f68f24ab1a5", "title": "My Exciting Adventure in Greece, Part 5 (August 9th, 2023)", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2023/08/09/my-exciting-adventure-in-greece-part-5-august-9th-2023/", "published_at": "2023-08-09T19:13:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-0cae-729d-a8ba-0f68f289e0a6", "title": "My Exciting Adventure in Greece, Part 4 (July 28th, 2023)", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2023/07/28/my-exciting-adventure-in-greece-part-4-july-28th-2023/", "published_at": "2023-07-29T03:56:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-0cae-729d-a8ba-0f68f3294335", "title": "My Exciting Adventure in Greece, Part 3 (July 11th, 2023)", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2023/07/11/my-exciting-adventure-in-greece-part-3-july-11th-2023/", "published_at": "2023-07-11T20:59:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-0cae-729d-a8ba-0f68f37ef688", "title": "My Exciting Adventure in Greece, Part 2 (June 20th, 2023)", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2023/06/20/my-exciting-adventure-in-greece-part-2-june-20th-2023/", "published_at": "2023-06-20T20:03:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-0cae-729d-a8ba-0f68f4448046", "title": "My Exciting Adventure in Greece, Part 1 (June 13th, 2023)", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2023/06/13/my-exciting-adventure-in-greece-part-1-june-13th-2023/", "published_at": "2023-06-13T22:29:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-0cae-729d-a8ba-0f68f513ac75", "title": "How Did Ancient Greek Women Make Themselves Look Seductive?", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2023/06/07/how-did-ancient-greek-women-make-themselves-look-seductive/", "published_at": "2023-06-08T03:32:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-0cae-729d-a8ba-0f68f5aad3a8", "title": "The Most Twisted Scene in Any Ancient Greek Novel", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2023/05/31/the-most-twisted-scene-in-any-ancient-greek-novel/", "published_at": "2023-06-01T03:57:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-52b5-703d-9203-5d4b90d90377", "title": "The Lost Ancient Greek Novel with a Lesbian Love Plot in It", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2023/05/25/the-lost-ancient-greek-novel-with-a-lesbian-love-plot-in-it/", "published_at": "2023-05-26T03:40:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-52b5-703d-9203-5d4b91456e4f", "title": "Jordan Peterson Does Not Understand Ancient Languages", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2023/05/11/jordan-peterson-does-not-understand-ancient-languages/", "published_at": "2023-05-12T03:58:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-52b5-703d-9203-5d4b919cf45b", "title": "What Is the Correct Plural Form of ‘Octopus’?", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2023/04/29/what-is-the-correct-plural-form-of-octopus/", "published_at": "2023-04-29T21:39:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-52b5-703d-9203-5d4b91e21445", "title": "Does Classical Studies Really Make People Neurotic and Unhappy?", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2023/04/09/does-classical-studies-really-make-people-neurotic-and-unhappy/", "published_at": "2023-04-10T01:03:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-52b5-703d-9203-5d4b92520621", "title": "The Shocking True Origin of Dionysos", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2023/03/30/the-shocking-true-origin-of-dionysos/", "published_at": "2023-03-30T21:26:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-52b5-703d-9203-5d4b92cdc851", "title": "The Dumbest Fictional Law in Ancient Literature", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2023/03/19/the-dumbest-fictional-law-in-ancient-literature/", "published_at": "2023-03-19T18:50:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-52b5-703d-9203-5d4b92d96e6f", "title": "Have Been Accepted to the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA)’s Summer Session for 2023!", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2023/03/04/have-been-accepted-to-the-american-school-of-classical-studies-at-athens-ascsas-summer-session-for-2023/", "published_at": "2023-03-04T16:44:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-52b5-703d-9203-5d4b93bc1b0c", "title": "At What Age Did Ancient Greek Women Typically Marry?", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2023/02/28/at-what-age-did-ancient-greek-women-typically-marry/", "published_at": "2023-03-01T04:56:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-52b5-703d-9203-5d4b93dfeef6", "title": "ChatGPT Is Impressive for a Bot, But Not for a Human", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2023/02/19/chatgpt-is-impressive-for-an-ai-but-not-for-a-human/", "published_at": "2023-02-20T04:37:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-52b5-703d-9203-5d4b94405951", "title": "What Was the “Epic Cycle” Really?", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2023/02/04/what-was-the-epic-cycle-really/", "published_at": "2023-02-05T00:44:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-910f-725a-a193-63b5812a0850", "title": "How Likely Is It That Scholars Will Find More of Sappho’s Lost Poems?", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2023/01/19/how-likely-is-it-that-scholars-will-find-more-of-sapphos-lost-poems/", "published_at": "2023-01-20T04:56:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-910f-725a-a193-63b58206ad7d", "title": "How Did Ammonites Receive Their Name?", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2023/01/08/how-did-ammonites-receive-their-name/", "published_at": "2023-01-08T21:44:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-910f-725a-a193-63b582842d9b", "title": "Jesus Had a Vagina (According to Medieval Christian Mysticism)", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/12/31/jesus-had-a-vagina-according-to-medieval-christian-mysticism/", "published_at": "2022-12-31T09:47:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-910f-725a-a193-63b582ec1908", "title": "What Do Angels Really Look Like According to the Bible?", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/12/25/what-do-angels-really-look-like-according-to-the-bible/", "published_at": "2022-12-26T04:57:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-910f-725a-a193-63b5830b4e83", "title": "Zwarte Piet Is a Racist Abomination", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/12/17/zwarte-piet-is-a-racist-abomination/", "published_at": "2022-12-18T04:57:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-910f-725a-a193-63b5839e0d94", "title": "Ancient Greek and Latin Insult Poetry", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/12/09/ancient-greek-and-latin-insult-poetry/", "published_at": "2022-12-10T04:56:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-910f-725a-a193-63b5844b6e4a", "title": "“The Man, the Myth, the Pumpkin” Podcast", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/12/03/the-man-the-myth-the-pumpkin-podcast/", "published_at": "2022-12-04T00:12:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-910f-725a-a193-63b5845bd5ea", "title": "The Ancient Greek Woman Who Dressed as a Man to Seduce Men", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/12/01/the-ancient-greek-woman-who-dressed-as-a-man-to-seduce-men/", "published_at": "2022-12-01T18:28:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-910f-725a-a193-63b584a59f8c", "title": "The Ancient Greeks Ate Cicadas and Grasshoppers!", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/11/20/the-ancient-greeks-ate-cicadas-and-grasshoppers/", "published_at": "2022-11-20T09:14:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-910f-725a-a193-63b584ad1ac5", "title": "Archaeologists Have Discovered the Oldest Known Writing in Basque", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/11/19/archaeologists-have-discovered-the-oldest-known-writing-in-basque/", "published_at": "2022-11-19T18:37:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-c6bf-7242-8b38-e1dcb7447e6c", "title": "Zeus’s Horrifying Plan for Cosmic Genocide", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/11/14/zeuss-horrifying-plan-for-cosmic-genocide/", "published_at": "2022-11-15T04:55:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-c6bf-7242-8b38-e1dcb7f9360d", "title": "The Baffling Ancient Unsolved Mystery of the Phaistos Disk", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/11/09/the-baffling-ancient-unsolved-mystery-of-the-phaistos-disk/", "published_at": "2022-11-10T04:58:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-c6bf-7242-8b38-e1dcb82b1c7b", "title": "The Shocking Ancient Pagan Origin of the Legend of Stingy Jack", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/10/31/the-shocking-ancient-pagan-origin-of-the-legend-of-stingy-jack/", "published_at": "2022-11-01T03:58:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-c6bf-7242-8b38-e1dcb88b1a0a", "title": "The Decline of Cursive Isn’t Historically as Big of a Deal as Most People Think", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/10/23/the-decline-of-cursive-isnt-historically-as-big-of-a-deal-as-most-people-think/", "published_at": "2022-10-23T21:00:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-c6bf-7242-8b38-e1dcb8b129d6", "title": "Nonbinary Characters for Children Are Nothing New", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/10/09/nonbinary-characters-for-children-are-nothing-new/", "published_at": "2022-10-09T16:23:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-c6bf-7242-8b38-e1dcb937c514", "title": "No, the ‘Epic of Gilgamesh’ Is Not the Oldest Surviving Work of Literature", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/09/22/no-the-epic-of-gilgamesh-is-not-the-oldest-surviving-work-of-literature/", "published_at": "2022-09-22T14:48:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-c6bf-7242-8b38-e1dcb96ce3e7", "title": "Most of My Pictures Seem to Have Suddenly Disappeared, 13 September 2022", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/09/13/most-of-my-pictures-seem-to-have-suddenly-disappeared-13-september-2022/", "published_at": "2022-09-14T03:59:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-c6bf-7242-8b38-e1dcb9a575fc", "title": "No, Athena Didn’t Turn Medusa into a Monster to Protect Her", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/09/07/no-athena-didnt-turn-medusa-into-a-monster-to-protect-her/", "published_at": "2022-09-07T09:32:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-c6bf-7242-8b38-e1dcba5f8732", "title": "Was Corinth Really an Ancient City of Vice?", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/08/31/was-corinth-really-an-ancient-city-of-vice/", "published_at": "2022-08-31T07:14:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38c-c6bf-7242-8b38-e1dcbb2e1ff1", "title": "Does History Have a “Presentism” Problem?", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/08/24/does-history-have-a-presentism-problem/", "published_at": "2022-08-24T21:32:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38d-0ff3-736d-893a-7fadc2e464e0", "title": "Does the Word ‘Dinosaur’ Really Mean “Terrible Lizard”?", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/08/18/does-the-word-dinosaur-really-mean-terrible-lizard/", "published_at": "2022-08-18T21:59:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38d-0ff3-736d-893a-7fadc35013c6", "title": "The Word ‘Fatwā’ Does Not Mean “Death Warrant”", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/08/14/the-word-fatwa-does-not-mean-death-warrant/", "published_at": "2022-08-14T07:28:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38d-0ff3-736d-893a-7fadc3f47bdc", "title": "Men Have Been Finding Weird and Unsettling Ways to Describe Women’s Breasts Since Ancient Times", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/08/09/men-have-been-finding-weird-and-unsettling-ways-to-describe-womens-breasts-since-ancient-times/", "published_at": "2022-08-10T03:23:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38d-0ff3-736d-893a-7fadc3fefcc4", "title": "Did Ancient People Really All Have Horrible, Crooked, Rotten Teeth?", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/07/31/did-ancient-people-really-all-have-horrible-crooked-rotten-teeth/", "published_at": "2022-07-31T15:16:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38d-0ff3-736d-893a-7fadc4668dd9", "title": "Why Do We Call Certain Prejudices “Phobias”?", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/07/24/why-do-we-call-certain-prejudices-phobias/", "published_at": "2022-07-24T22:11:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38d-0ff3-736d-893a-7fadc47e3fb4", "title": "Yes, Transgender People Should Be Allowed to Use the Public Restroom of Their Gender Identity", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/07/22/yes-transgender-people-should-be-allowed-to-use-the-public-restroom-of-their-gender-identity/", "published_at": "2022-07-23T02:12:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38d-0ff3-736d-893a-7fadc53924a7", "title": "Yes, King David Raped Bathsheba", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/07/16/yes-king-david-raped-bathsheba/", "published_at": "2022-07-16T15:40:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38d-0ff3-736d-893a-7fadc559290f", "title": "In Ancient Greece, Children Wearing Drag Was a Religious Obligation!", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/07/10/in-ancient-greece-children-wearing-drag-was-a-religious-obligation/", "published_at": "2022-07-11T03:19:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38d-0ff3-736d-893a-7fadc5a103c4", "title": "The Right Wing’s Ongoing Attack on LGBTQ+ People", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/07/04/the-right-wings-ongoing-attack-on-lgbtq-people/", "published_at": "2022-07-05T03:59:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d38d-0ff3-736d-893a-7fadc620c1d8", "title": "Why Are Dragons Obsessed with Treasure?", "url": "https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/06/23/why-are-dragons-obsessed-with-treasure/", "published_at": "2022-06-24T02:36:03+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

Is Humanity’s “Oldest Myth” Really 100,000 Years Old?original ↗
15 Sept 2026
How the Labrys Became a Symbol of Lesbian Feminismoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2026
Is Persephone the Main Ruler of the Underworld in Greek Myth?original ↗
5 Aug 2026
An Ancient Historian’s Breakdown of Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’original ↗
24 Jul 2026
My Position Regarding Use of Generative AIoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2026
How Medieval Are the Dragons in ‘House of the Dragon’ Really?original ↗
13 Jul 2026
Where Does the Canonical Image of Satan Come From?original ↗
6 Jun 2026
Is Edward Gibbon’s ‘The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’ Worth Reading Today?original ↗
7 May 2026
Did Ancient Civilizations Have Organized Crime?original ↗
17 Mar 2026

2025

How an Obscure Character in the ‘Iliad’ Gave Us the English Word ‘Pander’original ↗
22 Dec 2025
Ancient and Medieval People Believed that Unicorns Were Real—and Murderousoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2025
Scholars Have Discovered How to Pronounce the True Name of Godoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2025
Is Athena Named After Athens, or Vice Versa?original ↗
21 Oct 2025
Update on My First Few Weeks of Law School, the Future of This Blog, and My Novel (September 2nd, 2025)original ↗
2 Sept 2025
Why Do Ancient Egyptian Gods Have Animal Heads???original ↗
1 Aug 2025
What Was the First Conlang?original ↗
7 Jul 2025
Well, I’m Going to Law Schooloriginal ↗
5 Jul 2025
Why Are Oxbridge Professors, Catholic Priests, and Crime Bosses All Called ‘Don’?original ↗
10 May 2025
Lost Ancient Cities That No One Has Ever Foundoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2025
Everything I Liked and Hated about Uberto Pasolini’s ‘The Return’ (2024)original ↗
15 Mar 2025
Update (February 28th, 2025)original ↗
28 Feb 2025
Update (February 5th, 2025)original ↗
5 Feb 2025
Update (January 10th, 2025)original ↗
10 Jan 2025

2024

Update (December 27th, 2024)original ↗
27 Dec 2024
Update (December 5th, 2024)original ↗
5 Dec 2024
A Post-Election Update (November 17th, 2024)original ↗
17 Nov 2024
An Update on My Novel in Progress (October 5th, 2024)original ↗
5 Oct 2024
Advice on Reading Homer in Translationoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2024
What’s the Problem with Elon Musk’s ‘Iliad’ Advice?original ↗
28 Aug 2024
Why Greece Hasn’t Rebuilt the Agoraoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2024
New Fragments of Euripides Discovered!original ↗
3 Aug 2024
An Update on My Novel in Progress (June 25th, 2024)original ↗
26 Jun 2024
A Personal Update (June 1st, 2024)original ↗
2 Jun 2024
Did Julius Caesar Really Say “The Die Is Cast”?original ↗
8 May 2024
In Defense of Hegelochosoriginal ↗
7 May 2024
What Do the Newly-Read Herculaneum Papyri Actually Tell Us about Plato?original ↗
30 Apr 2024
Did Any Non-Israelite Ancient Cultures Have Their Own “Bibles”?original ↗
13 Apr 2024
When and How Did Modern Westerners Learn about Egyptian Myth?original ↗
7 Apr 2024
Why Were Elaborate Floor Mosaics More Common in Antiquity Than Today?original ↗
22 Mar 2024
Update on My PhD Applications (March 10th, 2024)original ↗
10 Mar 2024
Why Prehistoric Matriarchy Wasn’t a Thing (A Brief Explanation)original ↗
5 Feb 2024
Don’t Blame “Paganism” for the United States’ Problemsoriginal ↗
14 Jan 2024

2023

The Ancient Greeks Invented the Fashion Doll Over 2,500 Years Before Barbieoriginal ↗
27 Dec 2023
Update: I Have Applied to PhD Programs Again! (December 16th, 2023)original ↗
17 Dec 2023
Persephone Is in the Underworld During the Summer, Not the Winteroriginal ↗
26 Nov 2023
Most Memorable Opening Lines in Ancient Literatureoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2023
My Exciting Adventure in Greece, Part 8original ↗
1 Nov 2023
No, the Roman Emperor Hadrian Didn’t Invent Palestineoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2023
No, Emily Wilson Isn’t the First Woman Ever to Translate Homeroriginal ↗
8 Oct 2023
Have Scholars Really Only Just Now Figured Out That Sappho’s Supposed Husband’s Name Is Dirty Joke?original ↗
24 Sept 2023
Why Do Men Spend So Much Time Thinking about the Roman Empire?original ↗
17 Sept 2023
My Exciting Adventure in Greece, Part 7original ↗
6 Sept 2023
My Exciting Adventure in Greece, Part 6original ↗
22 Aug 2023
My Exciting Adventure in Greece, Part 5 (August 9th, 2023)original ↗
9 Aug 2023
My Exciting Adventure in Greece, Part 4 (July 28th, 2023)original ↗
29 Jul 2023
My Exciting Adventure in Greece, Part 3 (July 11th, 2023)original ↗
11 Jul 2023
My Exciting Adventure in Greece, Part 2 (June 20th, 2023)original ↗
20 Jun 2023
My Exciting Adventure in Greece, Part 1 (June 13th, 2023)original ↗
13 Jun 2023
How Did Ancient Greek Women Make Themselves Look Seductive?original ↗
8 Jun 2023
The Most Twisted Scene in Any Ancient Greek Noveloriginal ↗
1 Jun 2023
The Lost Ancient Greek Novel with a Lesbian Love Plot in Itoriginal ↗
26 May 2023
Jordan Peterson Does Not Understand Ancient Languagesoriginal ↗
12 May 2023
What Is the Correct Plural Form of ‘Octopus’?original ↗
29 Apr 2023
Does Classical Studies Really Make People Neurotic and Unhappy?original ↗
10 Apr 2023
The Shocking True Origin of Dionysosoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2023
The Dumbest Fictional Law in Ancient Literatureoriginal ↗
19 Mar 2023
Have Been Accepted to the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA)’s Summer Session for 2023!original ↗
4 Mar 2023
At What Age Did Ancient Greek Women Typically Marry?original ↗
1 Mar 2023
ChatGPT Is Impressive for a Bot, But Not for a Humanoriginal ↗
20 Feb 2023
What Was the “Epic Cycle” Really?original ↗
5 Feb 2023
How Likely Is It That Scholars Will Find More of Sappho’s Lost Poems?original ↗
20 Jan 2023
How Did Ammonites Receive Their Name?original ↗
8 Jan 2023

2022

Jesus Had a Vagina (According to Medieval Christian Mysticism)original ↗
31 Dec 2022
What Do Angels Really Look Like According to the Bible?original ↗
26 Dec 2022
Zwarte Piet Is a Racist Abominationoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2022
Ancient Greek and Latin Insult Poetryoriginal ↗
10 Dec 2022
“The Man, the Myth, the Pumpkin” Podcastoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2022
The Ancient Greek Woman Who Dressed as a Man to Seduce Menoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2022
The Ancient Greeks Ate Cicadas and Grasshoppers!original ↗
20 Nov 2022
Archaeologists Have Discovered the Oldest Known Writing in Basqueoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2022
Zeus’s Horrifying Plan for Cosmic Genocideoriginal ↗
15 Nov 2022
The Baffling Ancient Unsolved Mystery of the Phaistos Diskoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2022
The Shocking Ancient Pagan Origin of the Legend of Stingy Jackoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2022
The Decline of Cursive Isn’t Historically as Big of a Deal as Most People Thinkoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2022
Nonbinary Characters for Children Are Nothing Neworiginal ↗
9 Oct 2022
No, the ‘Epic of Gilgamesh’ Is Not the Oldest Surviving Work of Literatureoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2022
Most of My Pictures Seem to Have Suddenly Disappeared, 13 September 2022original ↗
14 Sept 2022
No, Athena Didn’t Turn Medusa into a Monster to Protect Heroriginal ↗
7 Sept 2022
Was Corinth Really an Ancient City of Vice?original ↗
31 Aug 2022
Does History Have a “Presentism” Problem?original ↗
24 Aug 2022
Does the Word ‘Dinosaur’ Really Mean “Terrible Lizard”?original ↗
18 Aug 2022
The Word ‘Fatwā’ Does Not Mean “Death Warrant”original ↗
14 Aug 2022
Men Have Been Finding Weird and Unsettling Ways to Describe Women’s Breasts Since Ancient Timesoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2022
Did Ancient People Really All Have Horrible, Crooked, Rotten Teeth?original ↗
31 Jul 2022
Why Do We Call Certain Prejudices “Phobias”?original ↗
24 Jul 2022
Yes, Transgender People Should Be Allowed to Use the Public Restroom of Their Gender Identityoriginal ↗
23 Jul 2022
Yes, King David Raped Bathshebaoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2022
In Ancient Greece, Children Wearing Drag Was a Religious Obligation!original ↗
11 Jul 2022
The Right Wing’s Ongoing Attack on LGBTQ+ Peopleoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2022
Why Are Dragons Obsessed with Treasure?original ↗
24 Jun 2022
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