Saturday, November 28, 2020

The Host of Many: Hades and his Retinue by Bibliotheca Alexandrina

The Host of Many: Hades and his Retinue by Bibliotheca Alexandrina is now out and available in ebook form, for now.  The paperback is planned but I'm not sure when that will be out.  My poem, Pluto, appears in this issue.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Dedication 

Gates of Hades: Memento Mori by Nightshade Purplebroom 

Introduction by Terence P. Ward 

Poetry

Hypnos 
For Melinoe by Jennifer Lawrence 
Hymn to Melinoe III by Rebecca Buchanan 
Three Weeks in the Underworld — To Cerberus by Nightshade Purplebroom 
Hymn to Charon I by Rebecca Buchanan 
Library by James B. Nicola 
To Hypnos by Ariadni Rainbird 
Insomnia by James B. Nicola 
Prayer to Hypnos I by Rebecca Buchanan 
A Prayer for Life by Anna Schoenbach 
Birth Song by Rebecca Buchanan 
Hades’ Lament by Jennifer Lawrence 
The Flowers Were Dark by James B. Nicola 
The Rainbow in the Shadows by Hayley Arrington 
To Plouton by Ariadni Rainbird 
Pluto by Ashley Dioses 
Hymn to Hades V by Rebecca Buchanan 
Remains by Anna Schoenbach 
Sisyphus Revisited by James B. Nicola 
To the Oneiri by Ariadni Rainbird 

Rites and Recipes

Cerberus by Nightshade Purplebroom 
Honoring Hades as a Household Patron by Jamie Waggoner 
Meeting Hades: A Meditation by Rev. Amber Doty 
Mint and Stone: How to Create an Indoor Shrine to Hades by Rebecca Buchanan 
Pathworking to Face Kerberus by Ariadni Rainbird 
Yule: King in the Darkness by Rev. Amber Doty 

Myths

Pluto by Jacopo Caraglio 
Death’s Argument by J. K. Bywaters 
Fortune Teller by Mark Mellon 
The Haunting of Vipsania Licinia by Rebecca Buchanan 

Essays

Thanatos 
The God at the Gate: Charon in The Lightning Thief by Rebecca Buchanan 
Hades the Sophist by Edward P. Butler 
Meeting the Ferryman by Rebecca Buchanan 
Wrestling with Thanatos: A Mythological Study by Iona Miller 
Lethe by Nightshade Purplebroom 

Appendix A: Publication Credits 
Appendix B: Our Contributors 
Appendix C: About Bibliotheca Alexandrina — Current Titles — Forthcoming Titles 



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