Daemones Ceramici
2021-02-04 triviaJust in case anyone thought that greek mythology was all about stories of big heroes1, I’d like to introduce you to the Daemones Ceramici.
They’re five evil spirits that plagues potters:
- Syntribos, the shatterer
- Smaragos, the smasher
- Asbetos, the charrer
- Sabaktes, the destroyer
- Omodamos, crudebake
Doing that kind of generalization on ancient mythology is probably bad form, as is the contents of this very blog post.
As an analogy, when generalizing to the same level, “modern western mythology” could be said to contain Spiderman, Dracula, and Captain Kirk. ↩︎