Past Articles

An Odyssey tells many stories within a big epic. I write once a month. These are my past tales:

Poetry/Music/Language
Florence and the Machine after the hurricane

Esperanza en Español / Portugués / Inglés

Pindar and Christina Perri sing of people as a Shadow of a Dream

The first ecological writings appear in the Iliad

Why do we have a Facebook and not a Voicebook?

Halloween: My favorite word in Portuguese means Sorrow

Evoking a love memory from the Iliad while listening to Lana Del Rey

The influence of Sappho's poetry on the Spanish rock star Enrique Bunbury


Modern Literature, Culture and Myth
Unchained Dream

Lhasa, Tibet versus Santiago, Chile

Movie review: "Louder than bombs" versus "Rashomon"

Trotando por las iglesias de Santiago de Chile

A Monk, a Fox, a Bitter Man and the Three Goddesses of Destiny

A Night Train to Lisbon, a House of Spirits and a Sailor between Chile and Portugal

Finance and Political Systems: past and present
The first writings of men were not religion, love or epic poetry, but finance!

The first international financial crisis happened in the Roman Empire: 33 AD

Trump and the role of executive versus ceremonial rulers

A Pinochet and Allende in Ancient Rome: a story of civil war and personal betrayal

The courage to act: A memoir of Ben Bernanke during the financial crisis

Ancient Rome

Cristiano Ronaldo is not the most famous Portuguese athlete ever: look at a Portuguese chariot racer of Roman times!

The most powerful man in world history was a failed parent!

Visit to York I: Septimus Severus, a successful general who increased army expenses and initiated the Hyperinflation which would cripple the Roman Empire

Visit to York II: The Curse of Memory, how the first Christian emperor inflicted the worst legal punishment on his own family

How a gay Emperor, a patron of the arts and lover of peace, initiated the first Jewish genocide

Ancient Greece
The Beginning of History: a naked woman, the first coin and an overly optimistic king

The ancient Greek diaspora lasted longer in India than anywhere else (even in Greece)

The most expensive funeral in history: a god-king mourns the passing of his dearest friend

The Keynesian and Monetarist policies of Alexander the Great