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The 78 pages that link to Greek mythology, each with the reason it gives.

• HomerNarrower topic: The epics draw on a shared mythic world of gods, heroes, and the Trojan War.

• Ancient Greek religionRelated: Myths supplied narratives about divine powers without serving as a single religious doctrine.

• AnthropomorphismNarrower topic: Its gods display human bodies, emotions, conflicts, and social relations.

• AeschylusNarrower topic: Mythic traditions supplied the plots and figures of most of his surviving tragedies.

• Mycenaean GreeceRelated: Some myths preserve cultural memories later connected to Mycenaean places and rulers.

• MythologyBroader topic: Its surviving epics and dramas make it a widely studied mythological tradition.

• HesiodNarrower topic: Hesiod’s poems are among the earliest surviving systematic sources for Greek myths.

• SophoclesNarrower topic: Sophocles reshaped familiar myths rather than inventing most of his plots.

• Ancient GreeceRelated: Myths supplied shared stories across otherwise divided Greek communities.

• EuripidesRelated: Euripides drew on inherited myths but often reframed their motives and consequences.

• Albert CamusRelated: The condemned labor of Sisyphus gave Camus a lasting image of human persistence.

• OvidNarrower topic: Its stories supply much of the narrative material for the Metamorphoses.

• Isadora DuncanRelated: Mythic themes supplied subjects for dances that joined movement with idealized images of antiquity.

• Chinese mythologyCompared with: Its familiar Olympian-centered corpus contrasts with China’s diverse and less unified mythic record.

• Greek literatureRelated: Myth supplies plots and figures repeatedly reworked in Greek poetry and drama.

• Classical mythologyBroader topic: It supplies many of the stories and figures later shared with Roman tradition.

• Hellenistic artRelated: Mythological subjects remained prominent even as artists broadened their range of human subjects.

• PausaniasRelated: His descriptions preserve local myths alongside the monuments associated with them.

• PrometheusNarrower topic: Prometheus is one of its most enduring figures of divine conflict and human benefit.

• Hellenistic sculptureRelated: Mythological figures remained familiar subjects even as sculptors adopted more varied poses and moods.

• Roman mythologyCompared with: Roman writers adapted many Greek gods and stories while giving them Roman identities.

• Thales of MiletusCompared with: Natural explanations associated with Thales are often contrasted with mythic accounts of cosmic events.

• TheogonyNarrower topic: The poem organizes many myths into a genealogy and cosmic history.

• Trojan WarNarrower topic: Divine interventions and heroic genealogies place the war within this wider mythic world.

• PindarRelated: Pindar uses myth to frame a victor’s achievement and explore divine and human limits.

• Ancient Greek literatureRelated: Literary retellings became major sources through which Greek myths were transmitted and transformed.

• AphroditeNarrower topic: Aphrodite’s stories and divine relationships belong to this mythic tradition.

• Ancient Greek potteryRelated: Vase paintings preserve mythic scenes, including versions not recorded in surviving texts.

• Celtic mythologyCompared with: Its extensive classical canon differs from the fragmented, medieval transmission of Celtic myth.

• Greek vase paintingRelated: Vases preserve visual versions of myths, including scenes absent from surviving literary texts.

• Māori mythologyCompared with: The familiar label “mythology” can obscure how Māori narratives are embedded in living kinship and place.

• Mount EtnaRelated: Ancient writers associated Etna’s eruptions with the forge of Hephaestus and the giant Enceladus.

• Alexander RomanceRelated: Mythic patterns help turn Alexander’s exploits into heroic adventures.

• AthenaNarrower topic: Athena’s stories belong to a larger pantheon whose myths explain divine powers and relationships.

• Homeric epicsNarrower topic: The epics preserve and shape influential stories within this broader mythic tradition.

• OrionNarrower topic: Greek accounts made Orion a hunter among the stars.

• OrpheusNarrower topic: Orpheus’s stories belong to this wider mythic tradition.

• QuestRelated: Greek myths supplied famous journeys, including quests for homecoming, glory, and knowledge.

• Robert GravesNarrower topic: Graves’s classical interests later informed his influential interpretations of Greek myths.

• TitanomachyNarrower topic: The war belongs to Greek mythic accounts of divine origins and succession.

• AeneasNarrower topic: Aeneas appears in Greek traditions before Roman poets make him Rome’s ancestor.

• Hindu mythologyCompared with: Its familiar pantheon-and-hero structure offers a comparison, while Hindu traditions often stress continuing worship and cosmic cycles.

• LyreRelated: Myths connect the lyre with Apollo, Hermes, and the authority of music.

• PraxitelesNarrower topic: Gods and mythic figures supplied many subjects for his commissions.

• The FliesNarrower topic: The play transforms familiar mythic characters into figures in a modern political and philosophical drama.

• H.D.Related: Classical myths supply central figures and structures in works such as Helen in Egypt.

• Leconte de LisleRelated: Its figures and stories supplied recurring subjects for his classical poems.

• Ode on a Grecian UrnRelated: The urn’s depicted pursuit and sacrifice evoke mythic subjects without naming them.

• OedipusNarrower topic: Oedipus’s story belongs to the mythic tradition surrounding Thebes.

• Walter BurkertRelated: Burkert examined myths alongside the rituals and social settings that gave them meaning.