Ancient and Classical Mythology Links
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]
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)
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"