Mythology

Test your knowledge of Greek mythology with this Jeopardy game or this one.

Watch this video which is an overview of Greek mythology. See the real Mount Olympus. Listen to this podcast of an interview of Rick Riordan by Sean Hemingway, associate curator in the Department of Greek and Roman antiquities at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

=How I See It= [|Roman/Greek view of the world] Maps of ancient Greece Early Greek Philosophy Edith Hamilton

Task: 1. Draw your own representation of the Greek view of the world in your spiral. Be sure to include the Ethiopians, the Hyperboreans, and the Elysian Fields. 2. Write a one-paragraph essay comparing the Greek view of the world to the contemporary view of it, including two points of comparison and two of contrast. Directions.

=Who Are They?= After being assigned a god or goddess, research them. Requirements found here. Need more help? Try here. or here. World mythology map Egyptian Counterparts Norse Mythology More Norse information Norse Creatures Roman gods and goddesses list Roman mythology More Roman god info Roman family tree Celtic Mythology Side-by-Side comparison between Roman and Greek god Family Tree Myths on-line Video links THESE VIDEOS OFTEN USE STATUES AND PAINTINGS OF THE GREEK GODS AND GODDESSES AS FOUND IN MUSEUMS IN GREECE AND OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES. Create a mythology biographical poem. Instructions found here.

=Recreation of the Mythological World= @Assignments

=Myths= @Echo Odysses and the Echo Pandora [|Atalanta] Phaeton Icarus Hercules [|Adonis] Arachne Raven and the Source of Light =Paintings= [|Narcissus] [|Phaeton]

=How it Came to be= Zodiac Constellation Table Products and companies today =Myth as Inspiration for Art and Poetry= [|Daedalus and Icarus] [|Daedalus and Icarus #2] Auden's Musee des Beaux arts Landscape with the Fall of Icarus