Introducing How To Survive Greek Mythology

The gods were powerful, petty, and absolutely not HR-compliant. This is their file.

Greek mythology is full of gods behaving badly, mortals making catastrophic decisions, and monsters who honestly didn't ask to be here. Most books hand you the same five famous stories. This one opens the filing cabinet on everyone else — the cursed prophets, the cosmically petty consequences, and the background deities quietly running reality while Zeus takes the credit.

Your narrator is Momus, the Greek spirit of mockery, and he has notes. Each entry reads like a case file: who they are, what they did, why the universe took it personally, and what their mistakes can teach you about ego, boundaries, and knowing when to stop.

Inside you'll meet a woman who out-wove a goddess and lived to regret it (as a spider), the HR department of the cosmos (they don't accept appeals), and a prophet who was right about everything and believed by absolutely no one — plus divine Yelp reviews, restraining orders, and at least one redacted incident report.

Smart, irreverent, and backed by many (sometimes contradictory) classical sources, it's mythology for people who want the stories without the textbook — and the laughs without the lecture.

Try not to become an entry.

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Joseph Lore is a writer with an unhealthy enthusiasm for ancient disasters and the people who caused them. He spends his time excavating the strange, the snubbed, and the spectacularly doomed corners of mythology — the figures who show up for one scene, ruin everything, and vanish back into legend.

How to Survive Greek Mythology is his field guide to that chaos: part case file, part survival manual, narrated by Momus, the ancient spirit of "I'm not saying it to be mean, I'm saying it because someone has to."

He believes the old myths still have something to scream at us from 3,000 years away, usually some version of "maybe don't do that."

More survival guides are forthcoming, because humanity has never run short of mythologies to mishandle.