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Gregory Michael Nixon

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After immersing myself in Homer’s Iliad at 15, I was first drawn to the myths of Bronze Age Greece, but over time, I focussed more on the meaning of myth and the history of the era. I had to sideline this private fascination as I spent most of my adult life as a professor writing scholarly papers such as “Myth and Mind: The Origin of Human Consciousness in the Discovery of the Sacred.” When I retired from the academy, after going through seven cities, three houses, and three wives, I found myself living alone (except for a cat named Nigel) in a cottage by beautiful Okanagan Lake in British Columbia, Canada. Here I wrote my first mythicohistorical novel, The Diomedeia (2022), in which Diomedes, a Homeric hero, enters the declining Hittite Em ...more

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“And I shall destroy everything I created. Earth will again appear as primordial ocean, as endlessness as in the beginning. I then am everything that remains — after I have turned myself back into a snake that no man knows."
—The ouroboric serpent of the primordial ocean speaks. (source p. 415 in The Diomedeia)”
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“So now all things are damned, one feels at ease.”
(Lord Byron, Don Juan VI: 23)

Homer
“Her gray eyes clear, the goddess Athena answered, "Down from the skies I come to check your rage if only you will yield”
Homer

T.S. Eliot
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, remembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.

—T.S. Eliot, from “Little Gidding,” Four Quartets (Gardners Books; Main edition, April 30, 2001) Originally published 1943.”
T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

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