Paid Members tom Posted February 28, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted February 28, 2011 After watching Clash Of The Titans, and Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, recently it has really intensified my interest in Greek mythology. I was just wondering if anyone else was into it and also a good place to start in terms of literature Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra1000 Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 After watching Clash Of The Titans, and Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, recently it has really intensified my interest in Greek mythology. I was just wondering if anyone else was into it and also a good place to start in terms of literature  Yes, really really interested in it, but I really think those two films would have put people off the thing, they are balls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tom Posted February 28, 2011 Author Paid Members Share Posted February 28, 2011 Thankfully I think I could see past the Hollywood treatment and just be interested in hearing more of the mythology as it is really quite interesting, and I was seeing quite a few parallels between the myths and modern religion which is something I'd like to look into more too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members ReturnOfTheMack Posted February 28, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted February 28, 2011 Yeah, in fact right now Im studying it through the Open University. A not horrible place to start would be if you could find a cheap copy of Ovids Metamorphoses. Its in poetic form, but it covers the creation of the world through to Julius Ceasar. Obviously the Gods and heroes are given their Roman names rather than the Greek, but in fairness the differences are fairly minimal. Â Â I just found a PDF for you, if you fancy it. Â http://www.poetryintranslation.com/klineasovid.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Essex Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 When i was at school over 20 years ago now we used to do Classical Studies which was about Greek mythology. I even got the teacher to show a Hercules wrestling match during class. This was about 1989. Very interesting then in the 2nd year I started Latin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackie Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 I studied classics for GCSE and if you want to do greek mythology you need to look at some of the literature such as the odyssey and the Illiad. If you want some shorter stuff then look at some of the Penguin Classics collection as they tend to cover a wide range of mythology also there are some is some great stuff concerning greek culture in those stories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benbobjr Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 Whn I was young Greek Mythology really enthralled me. I think it might have been Tony Robinson's Odysseus (both the books and the show) which got me so interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted February 28, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted February 28, 2011 I love Greek mythology. When I first learned to read, it was Greek and Roman mythology which got me into reading much more extensively. By the age of six, even my dad couldn't beat me on knowledge of Greek/Roman mythology stories and trivia. It also helped me learn about vocabulary, nomenclature and language, and gave me a good start when I started doing Latin and Classical Greek at school. The Odyssey, the Iliad, the Aeneid, Metamorphoses, the Twelve Tasks of Hercules/Herakles, Zeus vs. Typhon - all fascinating stories, and they got me into heavier stuff later as a teen, reading Euripides' and Aeschylus' tragedies, Aristophanes' filthy comedies, and the poems of Propertius and Petronius. Â Also, my fascination with Greco-Roman mythology led me further to mythologies of other cultures, such as Norse, Native North American, Inca, Aztec, Maya, Indian, Chinese, Russian, Maori, etc. There's an unbelievable wealth of stories out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BigJag Posted March 1, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted March 1, 2011 I've always enjoyed reading about Hercules and the other gods of Olympus. Last year I picked up some of the Marvel Hercules books. One of them went into Hercule's history and the story of Zeus and the Titans. Some weird stuff went on there. How accurate would Marvels telling of the stories be? Bearing in mind that these are myths and legends. We are long overdue a good Hercules film. I enjoyed Percy Jackson and the Lighting Thief. I believe there is a new book out. I'd imagine a film would follow soon. Clash of The Titans was poor. Although Liam Neeson is a much better Zues than Sean Bean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WU LYF 4 LYF Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 I've read the classics but never really got into the more obscure Greek mythology, although there are loads of really nicely bound sets with a ton of it in. Wasn't overly enamored with 'Metamorphoses' or 'Iliad' etc to seek anything else out at this point in my life. Â One of those things where I like the idea of it, but haven't the motivation for the detail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members ReturnOfTheMack Posted March 1, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted March 1, 2011 BigJag, there are about half a dozen Percy Jackson books, I got one free with a copy of Harry Potter a couple of years back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Tommy! Posted March 1, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted March 1, 2011 I've recently been trying to find a film I watched in school back in about 95/96. It was a 50's/60's film about Hercules, of which there seems to be a ton, and in one of the only bits I recall he is tasked with drinking all the water from this big horn cup thing and can't as its all the water in the sea's. Â I assume its linked to the trails of Hercules of which I'd love a recommendation of a film I could get cheap. Â Many thanks in advance for any one who can help out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotechnik Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 It's an old one but a classic, if you've never seen Jason and the Argonauts it's worth an afternoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members ReturnOfTheMack Posted March 1, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted March 1, 2011 That was Hercules? I thought that was Thor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BigJag Posted March 1, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted March 1, 2011 That was Hercules? I thought that was Thor. Not in Jason and the Argonauts. Thor is a god from Norse mythology. Thunderer is a cool name to go by. I was never a fan of the Kevin Sorbo series. He looked nothing like Hercules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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