Zoe Terakes and the mythic tales of gods, sex and magical transformations

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Zoe Terakes is a writer and actor with deep family connections to the island of Crete, where their great-grandparents migrated to Australia from. This island is the site of Europe’s first ancient civilisation. Bronze Age Crete had palaces, temples, art, written language and mythology long before the Roman Empire existed, and centuries before the Parthenon was built. When Zoe started reading the mythology of Crete they were astounded by how many of the tales involve mutability, metamorphosis,…