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Spencer Clevenger

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Spencer Clevenger earned an economics degree from University of California, Los Angeles and an MBA from the University of Southern California. He has studied mythology and Hellenic history for more than thirty years. Clevenger currently resides in the Seattle area where he works as a Senior Director, Treasury at a technology company.

What is the connection between Greek mythology and Greek history? Many have expressed opinions on this topic since Western historians first began writing. Exhaustive discussions of the historic and mythic aspects of the Trojan War exist. Historic perspectives of other mythic events, such as the Dorian invasion and the migrations of war heroes after the Trojan War, are available. Therefore it is surprising to lea ...more

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Madness of the Daughters of Proitos

When the unruly band following Dionysos reached the Argeia, they were opposed, as usual, by the conservative nobles in power. The devotees engaged in drunken orgies, which did not sit well with the conservative kings. They doubted effeminate Dionysos’s divinity and extolled the virtues of warriors. When the Mainades arrived, they found Mycenai and Tiryns ruled respectively by Akrisios and Proitos,