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Inset of Dika narrating her story from the Introduction of House of the Muses #1, published in November, 2007
About the House of the Muses
House of the Muses was conceived in my early college days back when I was studying Biblical Greek at Western Kentucky University. I had always enjoyed languages, and it was while digging thru the university library that I was able to find other works in Greek to explore. Then I happened on the works of Sappho, and it was not until some years later that I realized this discovery was a fateful one.
I found a mystery in the fragments, and was intrigued. By 1987 I had written a good many pages of the story that began to write itself in my head. By the time I achieved my Associate degree in graphic design I had the skills and tools to finally present this story the way I wanted to. The mounting pile of manuscript had begun to tire me. I wanted the bring the story to life, or it would never be read at all.
About the Series:
Scholars have for centuries set aside one perplexing poem inexplicably written in Spartan dialect from the Ennead, the nine books authored by Sappho. Why Sappho kept this poem in her collection has never been explained. Sappho had among her students a girl named Mnasidika, a Spartan name that means, ‘In Remembrance of Justice’. Another translated restoration of a little-known poem of Sappho’s, shredded by the early Church and left in fragments because of its ‘offensive’ subject matter revealed a haunting tale of ‘immortal lovers’. The details of this novel are derived primarily from the works of Alkaios, not Sappho, in his recounting of their early youth during the Civil War in Mytilene, the War with Athens, and the activities of the House of Penthilos. Many are unaware–or their understanding uncertain–about the part the Poetess of Mytilene played in the court intrigues, political upheavals and assassination plots of the time.
This comic updates three days a week, Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, at around midnight EST. The story has a planned ending, and is set to wrap up with Book Nine, Pleistodika: Ultimate Justice, in December 2012.
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