Things can’t be very exciting for Poseidon under the ocean. A fella has to keep busy somehow! On first (and maybe even second) glance, Poseidon appears to the modern reader to be a secondary deity, one who couldn’t possibly have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
All of those great leaps in the advancement of art made by the ancient Greeks were little more than clever use of gorgon heads. The “Golden Ratio”? More like the “Gorgon Ratio”. Don’t feel too bad if you didn’t know[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just to be clear, none of the bullet points in the strip actually happened. I’m not saying that Väinämöinen, hero of the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, is a sissy. I’m just saying that compared to the heroes of other[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Prometheus is one of the figures in Greek myth responsible for creating mankind, which makes him sort of like our mythological father. And like any father, I’m sure he has been deeply ashamed of his children from time to time.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Drunkenly weaving, slow-moving donkeys are the number one cause of highway accidents. It’s a fact, look it up. It struck me today that Dionysus is sort of like the Juan Valdez of booze. Clearly a huge hit at frat parties.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dryads, the spirit-creatures that animate trees in greek mythology, are proof that no object, no matter how strange or inanimate, is safe from male lust. Dudes throughout history, whether clad in shimmering armor or a simple toga, have always been[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Many people like to think that we, as a species, are falling into more and more depraved sensibilities. They think that, somehow as time goes on, our tastes are becoming more violent, more sexual, and less moral. These people have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hey look at that! It’s afterlife week at Happle Tea! Exploring all the possibilities (well, two possibilities) of life after death. How thrillingly eerie! There’s something funny about the human mind. No, it’s not just that the container it’s housed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Poor Athena, seems she forgot her helmet that day…Today’s comic is like that movie The Birds, only it involves a single, very tenacious, bird. I guess you’d just call that The Bird. It’s no less terrifying a title than The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If there’s one thing I learned from Pygmalion, it’s that if I think women should be cold, lifeless eye candy and nothing more I will be richly rewarded. Judging by pop culture, I can see that most of my male[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…