Let’s start the New Year by righting a few wrongs... what are the most common misconceptions from the Greek Myths or Greek/Roman ancient history?
For example, the misuse of the Caduceus of Hermes (two snakes) as a medical symbol instead of the Rod of Asclepius (one snake)...

Here’s another:
- that Hermes needs winged shoes to fly?

In fact, all the gods can also fly (according to Homer and other poets), whereas wings seem to denote speed, also used in the Homeric epithet for passionate speech, ‘winged words’.

What else?

Or how about ‘a Pegasus’ and ‘a Minotaur’ instead of ‘THE Pegasus’ (or just ‘Pegasus’) and ‘THE Minotaur’? You know, not actually treating them as a *species* given that they are one-offs in mythology?


More?