Heart of Tartarus
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. Each planet in the solar system was named for a Roman god, and by extension, a Greek god as well. Was this just a few ancient astronomers honoring the ancient gods . . . or was it something else? Craig Driscoll, a forty-something-year-old history professor at Boston University discovers that it is the latter. The goddess Juno appea...
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. Each planet in the solar system was named for a Roman god, and by extension, a Greek god as well. Was this just a few ancient astronomers honoring the ancient gods . . . or was it something else? Craig Driscoll, a forty-something-year-old history professor at Boston University discovers that it is the latter. The goddess Juno appea...
