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The Goddess Girls is a series of children's books written by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams, published by Simon & Schuster under the Aladdin imprint. The books are based on Greek mythology and depict the younger generation of the Olympian pantheon as privileged tween students attending Mount Olympus Academy (MOA) to develop their divine skills.
Taken from a review of the piece by Keith Matthews, "The study of male homosexuality in Ancient Greece only began in the 1970s, particularly following the publication of Kenneth Dover's Greek Homosexuality in 1978. This book helped to strip away many of the misconceptions about same-sex love in the Classical world that had grown up during the ...
Other gods are sometimes considered patrons of homosexual love between males, such as the love goddess Aphrodite and gods in her retinue, such as the Erotes: Eros, Himeros and Pothos. [5] Eros is also part of a trinity of gods that played roles in homoerotic relationships, along with Heracles and Hermes , who bestowed qualities of beauty (and ...
In the middle of the 19th century, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Kingsley and Thomas Bulfinch played an important role in introducing Greek mythology to children outside of the school context. [3] Their success reflected an increasing demand for fairy tales and mythical stories, [ 8 ] [ 9 ] but these themes became broadly successful only at the ...
Cupid and Psyche is a story originally from Metamorphoses (also called The Golden Ass), written in the 2nd century AD by Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis (or Platonicus). [2] The tale concerns the overcoming of obstacles to the love between Psyche (/ ˈ s aɪ k iː /; Ancient Greek: Ψυχή, lit.
The term comes from Greek mythology, named after Eros, the son of Aphrodite, a.k.a., the goddess of attraction, love, and sexual desire, Beaulieu says. ... it can also apply to anyone (or anything ...
The stories in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys are all stories within a story. The frame story is that Eustace Bright, a Williams College student, is telling these tales to a group of children at Tanglewood, an area in Lenox, Massachusetts, where Hawthorne lived for a time. All the tales are modified versions of ancient Greek myths: