Anthropos
Anthropos
(current book project)
In the fifth century BCE, the Greek playwright Sophocles told a story about a mythological “sphinx” who asked travelers a riddle and killed them if they failed to guess the correct answer. The riddle was “What goes on four legs at morning, two at noon, and three at evening?” The answer? A human being. Human beings crawl in the morning, walk upright in the middle, and walk with a cane in the twilight of their lives.
Sitting in its sacred enclosure facing the Nile, the Sphinx seems to pose a similar riddle, silently waiting for us to answer: What does it mean to be a human being?
Anthropos explores the intersections between myth, religion, history, and New Age pseudoscience in popular fascination(s) with Plato’s Atlantis, pre-Dynastic Egypt, and the quest for an alternative narrative of human origins.