dawn.vogel | August 15, 2025
For this week’s Fun for Friday and etymology, I’m sharing a post from Useless Etymology about the Greek word “naus” and the variety of English words that come from that root. As you might guess from the title, it’s about ships, but there are many other words that come from the same root. And when […]
dawn.vogel | July 18, 2025
This week’s etymology dive is an odd one, related to the Roman God Bacchus (the Greek God Dionysus). I had the thought recently that it seems like the words “baccalaureate” and “bacchanalia” might be related to one another. But their meanings are different enough that I wasn’t certain how they might be connected. Bacchus and […]
dawn.vogel | June 28, 2022
Because Greek and Roman mythology is some of the most commonly taught in the western world, it’s not surprising that a number of my pieces in Old Legends and New Fables reflect this knowledge. Even those pieces that deal with the legends of other cultures often get viewed through a Greek or Roman lens because of […]
dawn.vogel | October 26, 2021
I’ve loved Greek mythology since I was a kid, and I was fascinated by the idea of the Oracle at Delphi, both in a mythological sense (speaking prophecy from the Gods!) and in a scientific sense that explains the “vapors” present there. But with a nod to the mythological sense, I wrote “Breathe Deep” as […]
