Eric O. Scott reviews Supergiant Games’s new release “Hades,” now out for PC, Mac, and Nintendo Switch.
Paganism
Column: “By Toutatis!” – Asterix and the Pagan Revival
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Lyonel Perabo pays tribute to an unexpected source of his journey into Paganism – the classic comic series Asterix.
Arts & Culture
A new “Beowulf” confronts misogyny in the text – and its translators
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Eric O. Scott reviews the new translation of Beowulf by Maria Dahvana Headley, which features modern slang and a focus on the poem’s relationship to the women within it.
Paganism
Opinion: Sigurd, the Dragon, and Our World Today
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Karl Seigfried examines the myths of the Old Norse Volsung cycle and considers what meanings they might have for the modern world.
Paganism
Ancient heirloom art from deceased relatives
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Research reveals that the remains of dead relatives were modified into jewelry and musical instruments by ancient Britons.
Anne Carson
Column: The Madness of Herakles
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Eric O. Scott considers the questions about the nature of the gods raised in Anne Carson’s translation of Euripides’s play “Herakles.”