I strongly recommend Edward Edinger’s book The Eternal Drama: The Inner Meaning of Greek Mythology (Shambhala, 1994). It is full of thought-provoking explanations and arguments. In recounting the story of Jason and Medea, Edinger notes a recurring theme in Greek mythology: the hero defies death and achieves his quest through the help of a woman whom he promises to marry or honour in some way and whom he subsequently abandons.
Read MoreThe Greek word παραδεισος (paradeisos) first appears in the writings of Xenophon (c.428-c.354 BC), for instance in his ‘Anabasis’ (c.370 BC), where the author refers to the park attached to Cyrus the Younger’s palace at Celaenae near the sauce of the Maeander river in Phrygia.
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