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Ion — The Patriarchal Blessing and the Father of a Nation
Apollo forces Creusa in a cave under the Acropolis, has their son raised in his temple at Delphi and hands him to her husband as the husband’s own. Euripides’ Ion beside Joseph and the supposed father of Luke’s genealogy, the boy Jesus in his Father’s house, Rebekah and Jacob, and the question Athens put to…
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Cassandra and Jesus — Prophets of a Doomed City
Apollo gave Cassandra true sight and took away belief. Jesus wept over a city that would not hear him. Aeschylus and the Gospels side by side, with Ovid’s Paris taking her fire for love, Josephus’s other Jesus crying woe on the walls, the Locrian girls sent to Troy for a thousand years and the lampstand…