mythic
Surviving 536 CE
Cultural Trends & Surviving Volcanic Winters
![Surviving 536 CE](/content/images/size/w1460/2022/10/Eleanor_smooth_digital_painting_of_a_volcanic_eruption_detailed_931210b8-e606-4646-b117-5cbc3e69b7a2.png)
Giants
Fighting giants with snakes in the butt
![Photo of ants on a log via Pexels](/content/images/size/w1460/2021/12/pexels-carlos-pernalete-tua-674840.jpg)
Karen Haegemans on Elissa of Carthage
The historicity of Dido, founder of Carthage
![Dido Building Carthage aka The Rise of the Carthaginian Empire by J. M. W. Turner](/content/images/size/w1460/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/1024px-Turner_Dido_Building_Carthage.jpg)
Folklore Ancient & Modern
Gremlins & road gators
![Gremlins, a modern myth... and children's book by Roald Dahl.](/content/images/size/w1460/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/6d7d4052e60d56bb322e1f43a585ecd8.jpg)
Heroes and Parenting
The ascendancy of Achilles over Hawkeye
![Achilles chose heroism instead of parenting](/content/images/size/w1460/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/800px-Triumph_of_Achilles_in_Corfu_Achilleion.jpg)
Giants in War
Frost Giants & Firbolgs
![Many of Ireland's mythical early settlers were considered giants.](/content/images/size/w1460/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/The_Fomorians_Duncan_1912.jpg)
Curious Disasters
Failed marriages in folklore
![A rose was nearly Beauty's undoing in Beauty and the Beast.](/content/images/size/w1460/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Henri_Fantin-Latour_-_Roses_in_a_Stemmed_Glass_13358717034.jpg)
Great Men or Sons of Society?
Questioning the uniqueness of history’s leaders
![Saint Paul delivering the Areopagus sermon in Athens addressed early issues in Christology.](/content/images/size/w1460/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/PaulPreachingInAthens.jpg)
Mythology as Science
Fermi's paradox, cryptozoology, & mangled oral traditions
![The satellite from which the SETI messages were sent into space.](/content/images/size/w1460/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Arecibo_Observatory_Aerial_View.jpg)
History Becomes Myth
Exaggeration is a powerful memetic force
![George Washington admitting he chopped the cherry tree.](/content/images/size/w1460/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/george-washington-cherry-tree-george-washington.jpg)