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Alexanthros Galenos Vrykolakas

Alexanthros Galenos Vrykolakas

The Grove of Demeter: An Ancient Hellenic Horror Story

19 min readOct 31, 2023

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Alexanthros Galenos Vrykolakas

Poseidon and Nerites: A Hellenic Love Story

It is said that the Muse Erato, who presides over love and poetry, loveliest of her sisters, is want to spend her time on the beaches and…

23 min readJun 20, 2023

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Alexanthros Galenos Vrykolakas

Biology and the Binary

Increasingly in recent years, trans (including nonbinary) and intersex people in the US and elsewhere have been facing increasingly…

5 min readJun 7, 2023

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Alexanthros Galenos Vrykolakas

The Birth of Athena and Dionysos

I begin my tale by honoring the Muse Polyhymnia, she who safeguards the hymns of the gods both on Olympos and in the Underworld, and ask…

35 min readNov 19, 2022

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Alexanthros Galenos Vrykolakas

Ankaios and the Untasted Wine

Beginning with you, Melpomene, who keeps record of all tragedies which have befallen the Greeks, I shall tell the brief story of Ankaios of…

7 min readAug 29, 2022

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Alexanthros Galenos Vrykolakas

The Myth of Polyphonte and the Origin of the Striges

Tell me, oh Melpomene, Muse of Tragedy, of the one called Polyphonte, she who tried to resist the charms of fair Aphrodite, but who spurned…

28 min readOct 30, 2021

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Alexanthros Galenos Vrykolakas

The Myth of the Androgyne

An Excerpt from Plato’s Symposium

11 min readJun 29, 2021

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A group of Athenian revelers gather in a house to drink and discuss philosophy, the original meaning of the word ‘symposium’.

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Alexanthros Galenos Vrykolakas

Alexanthros Galenos Vrykolakas

A place for vampires, mythology, history, and some science to meld together. Stories may include sexual content, violence, and gore.

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