Year: 2017

Author’s Note: Origins I have always been a student of the creative process. During my early years in college, I was introduced to the work of Dostoevsky. I read of all his novels, short stories and a couple of biographies. From this man and his bizarre work, I became interested in writing and made my…

Preface The ancient Greeks knew the blacksmith as the priest of metals and his smithy as a temple to the gods.1Fire also had a prominent place in the ancient religion: The role of fire in ancient Greek religion is all-pervasive: whether in the sacrificial flame burning on the god’s altar, the funeral pyre in human…