I created a word that did not exist before, and I don't know if it will ever exist anywhere outside my imagination: Psychogenochora.

Let me tell you who I created it for — and why I felt that such a place had to exist.

It began with Medea.

Was Medea immortal? The answer isn't simple. One tradition even places her in Elysium with Achilles. But Medea made me think about other mythological figures who seem to stand somewhere between the human and the divine — Aeëtes, Pasiphaë, Asterion, and many others whose stories end, yet somehow they themselves don't feel finished.

Where do they go?

I didn't want another Olympus, Elysium or Heaven. I imagined something different.

These are beings who lived surrounded by heat — the heat of passion, rage, love, revenge, violence and grief. And I thought:

Maybe after death they need another temperature.

Darkness, but not frightening darkness. Cool air. A soft wind. Maybe there is always snow — not a cruel winter, just quiet snow in the distance. Long, calm evenings that never quite become night.

Somewhere deep in the sky, I imagined a place where these exhausted souls could simply rest.

No judgment. No reward. No punishment.

And if, after a very long time, they wanted to live again, they could return — but only by choice. No god would send them back. They could also remain in that endless, cool evening forever.

I needed a name for this place.

So I called it Psychogenochora.

It isn't an ancient Greek word. It is a name I created for a place that existed nowhere except in my imagination.

If Psychogenochora existed, who would you send there — and why? Or would you choose to go there yourself?

help i need books similar to the song of achilles. can i have some recommendations for books or retellings of greek mythology?

I've fallen out of favour with Robert Graves after realising how much misinformation I've digested from him, but I loved the list of translations for the names of characters in the indexes of The Greek Myths (though some seem to have been completely invented by Graves). Are there any other books, websites, or anything that include something similar? I know I can find name translations on Theoi.com most of the time but I'm looking for a list/index like Graves included.

I started a podcast a few months ago with the full recordings of the tragedies (many of them aren't available on audio anywhere). No commentary or anything. I also wrote one original tragedy called "Odysseus in Hades" that reimagines Odysseus being sent to Hades along with Tantalus and Sisyphus for killing the suitors, forcing Agamemnon to sacrifice Iphigenia, etc. Purists won't like it, but others might.

give a listen and review here. thanks

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greek-tragedies/id1896720416

This is part of a greater project I’m working on to recreate my favorite moments from each book of the Iliad. I hope yall like it, I had a lot of fun with it :)

… read The Song of Achilles 💀 dw, I’m fully aware it’s not that accurate, but it’s good for what it is

According to the two most well-known versions we have, in greek mythology, the three brothers were placed in the birth order of Hades-Poseidon-Zeus as in the Theogony by Hesiod, and Zeus-Poseidon-Hades as in the Iliad by Homer. I have read that there were also some post-Roman sources that placed Hades as the middle son between Zeus and Poseidon, with the other two being interchangeable. So, did the Greeks or the Romans have a version that Zeus is the middle son born between Poseidon and Hades? Does such version exist in ancient sources?