Greek Mythology

[QA48]

haha well i know of some that like aphrodite

i can never really decide if i like hera or not... she is kind of a player, but she was on the achaean's side and i hate the trojans, so... i don't know. i hate Poseidon soooo much though

He's just hunted by the fact that his Bro is the king of the Olympians. I feel bad for Hades. Poor guy, he's stuck guarding the miserable souls of the underworld while missing all the fun.

Oh and I LOVE the Persephone/Hades Myth

 

[Sven-El]

I don't know if some one has answered teh question yet, but yes, Norse mythology is associated with the Vikings/Scandinavians. I should know! I've researched the subject. The first book I read on it was in sixth grade when I learned I was descended from Vikings and wanted to udnerstand my family heritage and read up on Vikings, Scandinavia and Norse Mythology.

But on the subject of teh Greeks I love that too! The first book on Greek myths I read was Black SHips Before Troy in 3rd grade. ( Love Allen Lee's art work. He did great stuff for Middle-Earth too. His art work si perfect for mythical stories.)

My favorite stories are Orpheus and Euridice, Antigone, Theseus and the Minotaur, The story of Perseus, Cupid and Psyche, The Illiad adn The Odyessey.

Don't get me started on Troy. It is because of that movie that I could never be disapointed in Prince Caspian. Troy was nothing like the story in any way shape or form. BRad Pitt was a poor choice for Achilles. Orlondo Bloom played Paris as Legolas. Helen of Troy... hmm, I thinK diana Kruger was prettier in the National Treasure movies for some reason, but in this, I dunno she did not strike me as "the face that launched a thosuands ships." Maybe about 500 ships, and a leaky canoe, a busted motor boat and an inflatable sea horsie. ( She wasn't ugly, she just wasn't a mythical bueaty.)
Peter O' Toole was perfect for Priam, Eric Bana was great as Hector, and Sean Bean was BORN to play Odysseus. All of them were horridly udnerused and missed out on. They should hae focused more on ehctor who the poem was about.

Also they did an even bigger number on teh ending than peopel complained about with PC! Id idn't mind Hectors' son living ( I can do with out the infanticide) but they had already killed off Menelaus, and had Helen escape with the Trojans. Both of them factor into the Odyssey heavily as Telemachus goes to visit them in search of Odysseus. His story is oneof the most important parts of the quest as it is not just about Odyesseus's journey home but Telemechus' hourney to find his father.

And well with thefilmakers NO MYTHICAL STUFF stance on the film, that kind of nixd the hope I had in a film version of The Odyessey starring Sean Bean as Odysseus as he woudl be my first choice to play him.

 

[DeplorableWord]

He's just hunted by the fact that his Bro is the king of the Olympians. I feel bad for Hades. Poor guy, he's stuck guarding the miserable souls of the underworld while missing all the fun.

Oh and I LOVE the Persephone/Hades Myth

haha i know. aw poor hades... he had quite an unfortunate roll of the dice when they were casting lots to decide who would rule what!
and not only does he have to guard dead people, everyone hates him, you know? sad.


Sven-El, that is really interesting about the norse mythology...
ahha now i'm not really sad at all i never saw Troy!

 

[Sven-El]

Sven-El, that is really interesting about the norse mythology...
ahha now i'm not really sad at all i never saw Troy!

Not as sad as I am that I saw it twice. I hoped that it would be better the second time around. No dice. It was even worse! Actually, all I noticed was Brad Pitt's small pox vacine scar.

YEs... Jason and the Argonauts is much more worth your time watching... nothing beats Ray Harryhausen speacial effects for creatures and skeleton armies!

heck, Disney's Hercules was better than Troy... and that was just Hercules starring in a retelling of Superman I &II with some aspects of Rocky and the Karate Kid thrown in for fun.

 

[QA48]

Not as sad as I am that I saw it twice. I hoped that it would be better the second time around. No dice. It was even worse! Actually, all I noticed was Brad Pitt's small pox vacine scar.


heck, Disney's Hercules was better than Troy... .

HAHA! My mythology Professor said the same exact thing!

 

[DeplorableWord]

Not as sad as I am that I saw it twice. I hoped that it would be better the second time around. No dice. It was even worse! Actually, all I noticed was Brad Pitt's small pox vacine scar.

YEs... Jason and the Argonauts is much more worth your time watching... nothing beats Ray Harryhausen speacial effects for creatures and skeleton armies!

heck, Disney's Hercules was better than Troy... and that was just Hercules starring in a retelling of Superman I &II with some aspects of Rocky and the Karate Kid thrown in for fun.

hahaah... yes, i guess sometimes movies are better the second time around.

hahah i remember the disney hercules! aw... i loved the girl whose name i'm forgetting. and pegasus.

 

[Copperfox]

I believe the cartoon heroine was named Megara. And I thought Eric Bana did a fine job in the role of Hector; ditto Sean Bean as Odysseus.

Tiff, please tell me that you haven't withdrawn like Achilles in his tent with respect to continuing your fine-arts thread!

 

[DeplorableWord]

I believe the cartoon heroine was named Megara. And I thought Eric Bana did a fine job in the role of Hector; ditto Sean Bean as Odysseus.

ohhh that's right, it was Megara, or Meg.
i remember one time i got a little plastic figurine of her from inside a wonder ball
ohh the good ol' 90s...

 

[QA48]

I believe the cartoon heroine was named Megara. And I thought Eric Bana did a fine job in the role of Hector; ditto Sean Bean as Odysseus.

Tiff, please tell me that you haven't withdrawn like Achilles in his tent with respect to continuing your fine-arts thread!

No, I have not! I was actually thinking about it yesterday at work. For some reason the Colosseum came to mind and I was deciding on interesting facts to post.

 

[Tambourine]

I love Greek Mythology. Didn´t I already posted a message here? Ehh well, anywayz.

That was my favorite subject, well, one of my favorites subjects, in high school: Greek Mythology. Great love it, we have to read The Iliad and The Odyssey in high school. I tryed to read The Iliad back then but couldn´t, it was too hard for a teen who never read, but I did like it though.
But couldn´t read it till many years later...

But I absolutely loved The Odyssey, I read it in high school too, it was totally easy to read.
(I have the movie too, actually, that movie mado for TV in 1998 I think. It´s the best movie about The Odyssey)

Then, a few yeasr ago, I red The Aeneid and became my favorite as well as The Odyssey

I have read quite a lot of other plays, Greek theater´s plays. I dont know the name they have in english.

 

[Copperfox]

Well, Tambourine, for English speakers, the three plays in The Oresteia would be "Agamemnon," "The Libation Bearers," and "The Furies." An interesting thing about the culmination of this trilogy is that, in the "trial" of Orestes, no one seems to have been concerned with the actual rights and wrongs of what Orestes did and why he did it; rather, the two sides argued from totally dogmatic gender-partisanship. Orestes' patron deity Apollo figured that males were in the right no matter what, while the Furies figured that females were in the right no matter what.

 

[DeplorableWord]

I love Greek Mythology. Didn´t I already posted a message here? Ehh well, anywayz.

That was my favorite subject, well, one of my favorites subjects, in high school: Greek Mythology. Great love it, we have to read The Iliad and The Odyssey in high school. I tryed to read The Iliad back then but couldn´t, it was too hard for a teen who never read, but I did like it though.
But couldn´t read it till many years later...

But I absolutely loved The Odyssey, I read it in high school too, it was totally easy to read.
(I have the movie too, actually, that movie mado for TV in 1998 I think. It´s the best movie about The Odyssey)

Then, a few yeasr ago, I red The Aeneid and became my favorite as well as The Odyssey

I have read quite a lot of other plays, Greek theater´s plays. I dont know the name they have in english.

oh good, i'm so glad you like them!
i love the iliad and the odyssey, everyone needs to give them a read before they die... the aeneid is really good too!

okay i think i know which movie you're talking about... i saw it when i was pretty young, but i definitely remember loving it too!

 

[NarnianofGryffindor]

Aphrodite is not very popular as I can see lol

I can't stand her either

I also love the Mesopotamian Myths. Inanna Ishtar is one to give Athena a run for her money
I love them both.

I love Aphrodite. haha Probably one of the few who do.
Mesopotamian myths? I've never heard any of it, but they sound really interesting. I love myths of any kind. Norse, Greco-Roman, and Egyptian are the ones I mostly read about though. I'm starting to get into Chinese legends and stuff also.
Do you know of any sites where I could read Mesopotamian myths?

 

[blindlemonpie]

I love Aphrodite. haha Probably one of the few who do.
Mesopotamian myths? I've never heard any of it, but they sound really interesting. I love myths of any kind. Norse, Greco-Roman, and Egyptian are the ones I mostly read about though. I'm starting to get into Chinese legends and stuff also.
Do you know of any sites where I could read Mesopotamian myths?

First of all, you should give the Epic of Gilgamesh a spin. It is one of the earliest extant epics, and the earliest one to be found so nearly complete. Lines are missing here and there, but a good translator can make this trivial. Its about the great king and hero Gilgamesh who befriends the wild man, Enkidu. Enkidu is the only man on Earth whose strength is in any way comparable to Gilgamesh, so they go on adventures together and perform various feats. Enkidu is killed in a battle with a bull sent from the heavens (I think by Ishtar-- I don't remember). The death of Enkidu, so god-like yet still mortal, strikes Gilgamesh with a sense of his own mortality. From thence he goes on a journey to find the source of eternal life...
The best translations, of course, are likely to be found in books, but try these (they're free )

For Gilgamesh
http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/tab1.htm

This next fascinating poem is the Babylonian creation epic. The name simply comes from the first two words of the poem, meaning something like "when on high." It describes a war amongst the gods, the defeat of the great water serpent and mother-goddess Tiamat, and the creation of the world. The most fascinating thing about Enuma Elish is that possible echoes of it can be found in Genesis.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/enuma.htm

 

[Copperfox]

Yes, it was Ishtar who was responsible for Enkidu's death. But Gilgamesh took revenge on her: by getting Warren Beatty to make a _stupid_ movie that used her name as its title.

 

[queenaravis707]

I actually did a project on the 12 Olympian Gods and Goddesses and found them to be really interesting. I plan on reading books by Homer this summer. My favorite goddess (I just like her, I don't worship her or anything) has to be Artemis. I like her tough-girl personality. Aphrodite is kind of the woman a man never wants to have and Athena was too... manly, I have to say (if that's even the right word). But I find them very interesting.

 

[Tazzy]

My favorite goddess (I just like her, I don't worship her or anything) has to be Artemis. I like her tough-girl personality. Aphrodite is kind of the woman a man never wants to have and Athena was too... manly, I have to say (if that's even the right word). But I find them very interesting.

Heheh, my favourite Goddess is Athena, after reading the Odyssey.

Erm, even though Ovid is Roman, has anyone read Metamorphoses by him? It's based on a lot of Greek mythology and is a really interesting read - especially for Classic lovers. ^_^