by Jinny Webber | Aug 19, 2026 | Bronze Age Greece, Greek myth, Story telling in the ancient world |
We know about Oedipus, who lived three generations before Odysseus in mythic Greek history, primarily from pieces of his story in the Greek tragedies of fifth century BC Athens. Playwrights drew on an epic about him and the other kings of Thebes called the Thebiad,...
by Jinny Webber | Sep 4, 2025 | Bronze Age Greece, Gender fluidity, Greek gods and goddesses, Greek myth, Metamorphoses |
Imagining Bronze Age Greece The challenge of writing historical fiction is getting into the minds of people living in very different times from our own. Visiting archeological ruins of ancient civilizations tempts one to imagine those places in their glory when...
by Jinny Webber | Apr 26, 2025 | Bronze Age Greece, Greek myth, Metamorphoses, Uncategorized |
Serpent Visions is set in Bronze Age Greece, approximately 1300 BCE, when bards and rhapsodes spoke and sang old tales to spellbound audiences. Teiresias, the blind soothsayer of Thebes, knows he will die soon. He must entrust his longtime secret story to the right...
by Jinny Webber | Feb 16, 2024 | Uncategorized |
My connection to Shakespeare’s England remains strong, but for now the focus has shifted to the Bronze Age. Serpent Visions, a Novel of Teiresias brings to life the myth of that gender-changing seer in pre-Homeric Greece. During this pre-literate era, epics were...
by Jinny Webber | Feb 20, 2023 | Sex and Gender in |
Time for a transition from posts related to Shakespeare’s England to ancient Greece before the Trojan war. Like Shakespeare who leaned on the Roman poet Ovid, I use his Metamorphoses as a springboard. Though writing in Latin in 8 CE, the Roman poet Publius Ovidius...
