Goodness, I am juggling too many balls in the air again. Surgery went stunningly well, and I spent a month happily buried in writing and a few other projects before visiting my folks in the frigid reaches of Thrace. (Well, Utah, but there were four feet of snow on the ground.)

Now I am back and slowly catching up to speed on a number of projects, including househunting. However, none of these things are of interest to you, my fellow Hellenes!

What IS of interest to you is that I have completed my travel journal chapter on my visit to Delphi and Mt. Parnassos. You may browse my notes, anecdotes, and photographs here:
Ancient Greece Odyssey Part IV: Delphi, Sanctuary of Apollo


I am now working on the next phase of my journey, Ancient Greece Odyssey Part V: Mycenae, Tiryns and Nauplion. So far I have shared images and diary entries of the journey from Delphi to the medieval city of Nauplion, passing by the Isthmus of Corinth, old Corinth, and the headwaters of the Styx (alas, no pictures of the Styx).

Now I am working on gathering my notes and photos about Mycenae and Tiryns, and will be posting them next. Stay tuned!

Drat. I was going to be all artsy and sing my old alma mater's Hymn to Sophia at the Temple of Wisdom. So I made a (bad) recording and uploaded it and posted.

But I was lazy and copied the Greek from a Bryn Mawr songbook uploaded to the net. I forgot to CHECK their Greek transliteration. There's a few howlers.

met eute laiar = met euteleia
kallist on = kalliston (obviously)

There's probably a few other glitches as well. Whoops.

At least it's not as bad as what often happens to the Bryn Mawr hymn to Athena... the first line celebrates "Mathematos," learning, but for the last 15 years classics majors have been entertained by the majority of students pronouncing it "mathe mastos" which comes out roughly to "[We praise you, Athena] on account of your narrow breasts."

Note: I must avail myself of the services of Asklepios in a few days. The ritual is called myomectomy, and it may be a week or so before I can post again. On the other hand, browsing scrolls here may take my mind off discomfort.