brontes

The Brontes originally had to publish under male pseudonyms (or rather, pseudonyms of intentionally indeterminate sex).

I was curious about the assistants to Hephaestus you mentioned - apparently Vergil describes two cyclopes, Brontes (thunder) and Steropes (lightning), as helping him at the forge.

Well, at least one can make the argument that the Brontes died young because they couldnt move out of the unhealthy curate living environment.

Maybe it's more prosaic than what you expected (I did), but it's there: > Haworth's drinking water, they believe, came from springs which were contaminated by rainwater that had soaked through the church graveyard - which was close to the parsonage where the Brontes lived.

In the past, I used to flip into classical literature, almost anything, Icelandic sagas, the Greek classics, brontes (still doing that), and recently I’ve been into Mick Herron’s books, but they may be an acquired (UK) taste!

Earlier myths about cyclopes describe three of them (Brontes, Steropes and Arges (brightness)), who predated the birth of Hephaestus and were credited with forging Zeus' thunderbolts.

Because they lived some 150 years after Eliot and the Brontes.

I mean, Romanticism is what gave us Byron, Blake, Keats, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley (and his wife Mary's "Frankenstein"), the Brontes...

I wanted to give you kudos for bringing up the Brontes.

I mean, Romanticism is what gave us Byron, Blake, Keats, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley (and his wife Mary's "Frankenstein"), the Brontes...

Earlier myths about cyclopes describe three of them (Brontes, Steropes and Arges (brightness)), who predated the birth of Hephaestus and were credited with forging Zeus' thunderbolts.

Because they lived some 150 years after Eliot and the Brontes.

I wanted to give you kudos for bringing up the Brontes.