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You're right and indeed other languages use "chron-" for "time" in the general sense of the word, as in "chronology" [time-line], but the above post spoke of the myth of personified Time as having children -- whom I found to be logically inconsistent. At the same time, I am not sure of the sense...

Please do post more and, if available, any information about this myth or theogony: Author or Greek tribe, location, historical period. It's strange that the children were called Olympians while Demeter is the grain-vegetation goddess and Hades is the king of the Underworld. Of course, many...

I haven't found anything about "eight and nine", but some Ancient Greek lexicons refer to Nine [Ennea] as a sacred number, which was used in connection with the Nine Judges [of some unspecified Supreme Court], the Nine Muses, etc. I still think that originally Nine was the count of the...

According to the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, Orpheus (a human minstrel of the gods) went to the Underworld and returned from it. However it's true that, generally, humans did not go there, probably because of the fear that they would die there (since it is the home for the dead). Odysseus, who...

ANCIENT GREEK MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, SPELLS AND CURSES https://factsanddetails.com/world/cat56/sub405/entry-6415.html

In principle, archaeology and other fields of investigation cannot prove much of what is written in the Testaments; they are irrelevant to human deeds/events of the past. For instance, WHAT could prove that Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey? Or that he founded his own church? Probable...

You have a valid question; however, there is a fact that must be considered about the ancient Greek myths. My view: Most of them are not the historically original myths. After a myth was created and became known to others, some other Greeks -- in different places and/or times -- modified them...

Correction: The Latin word that translates Hypnos is Somnus [which > Ital. Sonno]; the Latin Somnia (plural of Somnium) are the things/forms which are seen in dreams. The word Somnius literally means "Of Sleep" but was obviously used as a noun, and it corresponds to Gr. *Somnios, which, like...

Please, I, too. would like to know where YOU found this information. Is the name/word "Somnios" an extant ancient Greek one? I have consulted some online Greek lexicons and unfortunately I have not found it. It's possible that somebody played a joke on readers by transposing the Latin "Somnius"...

Does he reincarnate? Where did ancient Greeks get this idea? We do: Look at most politicians and pseudo-philanthropists. (Dreams, whether good or bad, are deceptions to begin with.) // And who is Morpheus? Wikipedia points out that, according to Ovid, Morpheus [so named in Latin] is one of the...

In many parts of the world many people or magicians attempted to avert evil by either using amulets or uttering commanding dispelling words. In my native town (founded by Italic Greeks [Throurioi] in 204 B.C., in southern Italy, as I mentioned before) there is a magical spell , which I learned...

I liked your post and the idea of visualizing............,but, ,as you know, there is a great difference between the evolution of languages and the evolution of the alphabets of languages. I myself have done some work on the generation of Indo-European languages, but unfortunately a...

Tracing a language to its geographical source is practically impossible, since a language is sonoric and, hence, ephimeral, and we may not assume that a language originated where its writing down originated. Anyway, it is good to know where and how its witing originated. Notation, the writing of...

It's frustrating! Please click again and when the GREEKREPORTER site appears, click on their "greek name days". (Other sites on the same subject do not have a list of Greek names or a calendar of name celebrations.)

As I am interested in comparing modern Greek culture with ancient Greek and non-Greek cultures, I found a very informative post on how name-day is celebrated in Orthodox Greece, which is essntially the same as in Catholic Italy, although this custom is vanishing in Italy. Anyway, the given list...

Hi, Francesco. I hope you did not mind my insertions of etymologies, just for fun. Francesco < Ital. Francesco < French Francaisque

There are ethnic customs, beliefs, and other "cultural items" that are preserved within the culture that produced them, wherefore they are presently TRADITIONS. On the other hand, cultual items can be exported (or can be adopted by a foreign ethnic people). So, a given country or people may have...

In the 8th century B.C., various Greek trading posts [for pottery etc.] were etablished in southern Italy`. There followed Greek settlements [colonization] and founding of new cities... On a critical occasion, Pericles sent various Greeks to repopulate a city [Thourioi]; the sophist Protagoras...

It is a stunning little church -- especially in this photograph, which catches the resonance between its whitess and the clouds. Thanks.