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Last post here All, this will be the last post here. It turns out that github isn’t very easy to maintain, all things considered. I mostly started this particular site...

Why Thanatos would think living in his boss’ house is a good idea, I’ll never know.

You should think of this happening while Hades and Persephone are still “just friends.”

Tanais is one of the furthest cities of the ancient Greek world, and therefore known but unlikely to come up in passionate embrace.

In Italy, “to make the fig” refers to a crude gesture with a meaning like the middle finger in many other places. You make it by sticking your thumb between...

I started writing this comment as a response to a comment lamenting Persephone’s youth. I am nothing if not long-winded, and this post quickly expanded. In this post I am...

This is a bit of a callback to when Hades did not believe Persephone was picking him up.

I believe this will be the last of the “pickup lines” series. If you don’t understand Persephone’s pickup line, ask your parents.

Nike (one of Athena’s sobriquets) means “victory” and is where we get the name for the shoe company.

According to Greek mythology, although Apollo was most closely associated with lyre, Hermes invented it.

Imagine this happening after Hades and Persephone are married.

Persephone so badly wants to stand up for Hades, and casts some serious shade (of the 21st–century variety), but can’t bring herself to be totally mean. Also, although Persephone is...

If you, like Persephone, don’t understand what “breathing through one’s ears” means it refers to a man who is a lot like Hades, and not a lot like Apollo and...

If this is a little unclear, imagine that the Pomegranate phone has a “Siri-like” personal assistant, and the personal assistant sometimes has misfires, just like Siri. If someone asks a...

I like to think that Persephone believes she has to be lewd to get Hades’ attention, but it is so antithetical to her nature, and Hades just isn’t having it,...

Originally suggested u/atodd225. This was a challenge, because I’m still not sure about Zeus and Ares dynamic. You cant go wrong with a good old fashioned emasculation joke, though, at...

In a recent response to a question about the recurring theme of limitations on kings from u/kneecapsnathan, I made an allusion to the 1972 American film, The Godfather. u/henrythefifth replied...

As good a retelling as any of this actual Greek myth is “Myths and Legends Podcast”, Ep. 34. Stay tuned for the exiting conclusion…!

Over the New Year my reddit karma passed 5,000, which is not amazing compared to extremely active Redditors, but quite respectable considering that I only post on reddit/r/lore_olympus, and only...

This the second of two conversations. Go to the first conversation. I must confess that the original idea that either Athena or Hades might be Hades bastard sprung from a...

This is actually part 1/2. Part 2 comes tomorrow!

I do not normally post text messages on Saturdays or Sundays, to allow space between my common fan content and actual releases. I was inspired by the tone of a...

Minthe has been a hot and controversial topic on r/Lore_Olympus recently. I have been pretty hard on Minthe myself, but think that diversity of opinion on Minthe is valuable in...

If you can’t figure it out there, are two ways Persephone could have been trying to go. The more likely is the old “…put U and I together…”. If she...

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I have decided to go for a “soft launch” of this website/blog as a Saturnalia present to me, and hopefully some fellow fans out there. I have been posting primarily...

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A theme that has emerged in LO is the contrast between Hades and essentially all other gods in Olympus. Hades wants Persephone to choose her own path, whereas everyone else...

You should be able to appreciate the purity without understanding the line, but if you don’t know it…

This is entry 4 of 4 in a series about Zeus and his role in the politics of LO. In previous installments we have talked about Zeus treatment of his...

Sikeon is Greek for cucumber.

This is entry 3 of 4 in a series about Zeus and his role in the politics of LO. In previous installments we have talked about Zeus treatment of his...

This is part two of a 4 part series on how Zeus, as portrayed in LO is a formidable, manipulative, political operator. In the previous installment, I wrote about how...

This is part 1 of a 4 part series on theories of the Politics of LO. While LO is undeniably primarily about romantic relationships, some of the verisimilitude of the...

It seems not everyone is familiar with the fine art of really, really, just awful pick-up lines, so here are the three Persephone is stringing together (usually told by a...

Ep. 87 represents a major change in how Hades deals with Persephone, and I believe it is because he now knows she is not a full member of TGOEM. Hades...

LOs Aphrodite is almost uniformly more sympathetic and kind than the Greek myth version. She is a caring mother to 7 children, including an adult who still lives at home...