A philosophy kept as an archive

Stories shape the people who inherit them.

Apolloism is a theory about how myth and education form a people — and a program built on that theory. This library holds the whole of it: six lessons that assume no background, 172 preserved articles, and the exact passage behind every claim.

Three ways in

Start anywhere · nothing assumes the others

Explore the archive Every post and page from the original site, preserved whole and arranged into eleven plain topics. 172 articles · 2018–2022 Check the claims Definitions, readings, rival readings, and outside evidence — kept apart so you can tell which is which. 52 accepted claims · 14 corrections

By the end, you can explain

Short answer

What to remember

Terms from this lesson

Quick check

Explain it back in your own words

The archive

Every post and permanent page from The Apollonian Transmission, 2018 to 2022, preserved whole. Search covers the full text; each result opens the complete article.

172 articles

Showing the complete library

Plain-language definitions

Glossary

Look up a term without leaving the lesson or opening a dense source article.

Find a term

How to check what you read

Check the claims

A claim in this archive is never just a sentence. It carries the exact passage it came from, what kind of statement it is, and — where one exists — the evidence or the reading that disagrees with it.

The four kinds of note

Definition

How the authors use a word. Checkable against the wording of the source, and nothing more is claimed.

36 in the archive

Apollonian reading

How the corpus reads a story, name, or symbol. Offered as an interpretation, and marked as one.

52 accepted claims

Rival reading

A different reading of the same passage, kept next to it. The archive does not decide between them for you.

Shown wherever one is recorded

External evidence

A document from outside the corpus, stored locally with its hash, its rights record, and a narrow note on what it does and does not show.

4 attached so far

One claim, traced end to end

This is what opening any claim looks like.

The claim

Romans described foreign gods by comparing them with their own.
The passage

Definition · where the claim is taught

Caesar describes Gaulish worship with the names Mercury, Apollo, Mars, Jupiter, and Minerva. Tacitus says two foreign gods were described “in Roman language” as Castor and Pollux.

Taught in lesson 3 · reads on to source-site-post-597
The evidence

Outside the corpus

Caesar, Gallic War 6.17 and Tacitus, Germania 43 — both held locally, hash-pinned, with rights recorded.

2 documents · reviewed
The limit

Rival reading · what this does not establish

That the gods being compared share an origin. Resemblance gives you a comparison; a historical connection needs dates, contact, and a route.

Later changes stay visible

Linked corrections

The original site contains readings the authors later changed. Both versions are kept. The earlier one stays where it was published and points forward to the correction — it is never written over.

Open, not hidden

The evidence queue

A factual statement with no evidence attached yet goes into an open queue rather than being treated as harmless background. You can see what is still unchecked.

First outside sources attached

Four examples already checked

Caesar, Gallic War 6.17
Tacitus, Germania 43
Bandura, Ross & Ross on learned behaviour
A controlled study of stories and persuasion