Spending Time in Ancient History
I mentioned this briefly in my blog about our 7-day sailing trip around the Ionian Sea, but traveling to Greece opened a long-forgotten memory bank for me, going back nearly 25 years ago, when I studied Latin for two years in school. My teacher taught Edith Hamilton's classic book called Mythology . There was a time when I was very well versed in the myths of the ancient Greeks and Romans. In the years since, I haven't really needed the knowledge except it has been useful a couple times to know the legends of Atlas (holds the Earth and celestial heavens on his shoulders), Sisyphus (cursed to roll a rock up hill for eternity), and of course Pandora (the first woman in Greek mythology who let evil enter the world by opening a vessel, often referred to as a box). Bookending our Greek sailing trip was a night in Ancient Corinth on the front end and a night in Athens on the back end. We got to walk around the ruins of temples to these mythic gods...