Ancient and Classical Mythology Links

Gilgamesh:
        Complete 
        Summary

Assyro-Babylonian Mythology/Creation Myths:
        The Enuma Elish: Babylonian story of the creation
        Gods, Heroes and Monsters
       Comparisons to Bible

Science and The Great Flood:
   
"The Search for Noah's Flood"
    "Undersea explorer finds new evidence of great flood" (CNN Nature.com)

 

Greek:
"Of the portents recorded in ancient tales many did happen and will happen again." [Plato, 427-347 BC, Statesman 268e] 

          Perseus Project                       

 Bulfinch's Mythology        Maps and Timelines Etc.     Greek Mythology Link


        Bulfinch's "Monsters and Giants" etc.

        Theseus and The Minotaur
                Theseus
                The Minotaur


        Medusa and Perseus

                From Ovid
                From Hesiod
                From Apollodorus
                From Percy Shelley: The Art and Shelley's Poem 
                On French Feminist/Critic Helene Cixous' use of Medusa
                Artwork:
                http://www.loggia.com/myth/gallerymedusa.html           

        Prometheus
                From Hesiod (8th Century BC)
                From Aeschylus (6th Century BC)

                From Bulfinch, with Pandora

                Clear, Complete Prometheus/Pandora Summary
        

        Dionysus
               
Dionysus  also Dionysus
                From Bulfinch

        Adventures of Ulysses/Odysseus and The Lotus-Eaters, Cyclopes, Circe, Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, Calypso        

                  "The Real Cyclopes"