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...
