Trojan Cycle
The most superb and terrible cycle of the Greek epic, recomposed from the Iliad and the Odyssey, as well as from the classical tragedies and the lost poems only preserved in fragments, scholia and summaries.
Vol.2:
The landing of the Achaeans
Vol.1:
The kidnapping of Helen
Vol.3:
The wrath of Achilles
First post:
april 2016
The causes and initial episodes of the Trojan War, narrated in the lost poemCyprias.
First post:
January 2018
Political motives and human taboos, according toCyprias and the tragedyIphigenia in Aulide, of Euripides.
First Post:
October 2016
The facts of theIliad --founding epic poem of Western literature--, completed here with fragments ofCypriasYEthiopian.
Trojan cycle
Vol.6:
Ulysses' travels
Vol.4:
The cunning Ulysses
Vol.5:
The fall of Troy
First post:
August 2016
Completing the portrait of the most modern of the Greek heroes, according to Cyprias, theLittle Iliadand the tragedyPhiloctetes, of Sophocles.
First post:
May 2016
The tragic end of the cycle is narrated in la Little Iliad and en Iliupersis, here completed withThe taking of Iliumof Triphiodorus.
First Post: September 2016
Gredos bookstore edition: february 2018
RBA bookstore edition Books: May 2019
One of the most famous literary works of all time, theOdyssey, here supplemented withreturns(Nostoy) YTelegony.
Theogony
Contemporary narrative interpretation of the myths that explain the origin of the cosmos and the lineage of the gods of Greek mythology. According to the oldest version, as presented by Hesiod in the seminal poem of Greco-Roman literature Theogony («Origin of the gods«).
Vol.1:
Zeus conquersthe olimpus
Vol.2:
The revolt of the giants
First Post: August 2016
Gredos bookstore edition: february 2018
Greek cosmogony, birth of the divinities and fight of the Olympians against the titans, the mythological narration known as theTitanomachy.
First Post: January 2017
TheGigantomachycloses the great Greek cosmogonic cycle with the explanation of the order of the world, which responds to the constant struggle that civilization sustains against barbarism.