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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.
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.
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.
OvidNarrower topic: Its stories supply much of the narrative material for the Metamorphoses.
PrometheusNarrower topic: Prometheus is one of its most enduring figures of divine conflict and human benefit.
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.
AphroditeNarrower topic: Aphrodite’s stories and divine relationships belong to this mythic tradition.
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.
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.
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.
OedipusNarrower topic: Oedipus’s story belongs to the mythic tradition surrounding Thebes.
Works and DaysNarrower topic: Its mythic narratives frame the poem’s account of labor and justice.
Canes VenaticiNarrower topic: The constellation’s traditional figure draws on mythic stories about Boötes and his dogs.
Prometheus BoundNarrower topic: The tragedy reshapes familiar mythic figures into a conflict about power and justice.
Twelve OlympiansNarrower topic: The Olympians belong to a broader mythic tradition that also includes Titans and heroes.
Asia (Greek mythology)Narrower topic: Asia's identity and shifting genealogy come from this mythological tradition.
Carl SpittelerNarrower topic: Spitteler makes Greek gods and mythic figures central characters in his major epic.
GorgonsNarrower topic: The Gorgons belong to its family of gods, heroes, and monsters.
Greek hero cultNarrower topic: Hero cult joined local ritual practice to the wider stories Greeks told about heroes.
Lernaean HydraNarrower topic: The Hydra belongs to the heroic monster tradition of Greek myth.
Mary RenaultNarrower topic: Theseus’s legendary story supplies the core material for Renault’s two Theseus novels.
Rick RiordanNarrower topic: Its gods, monsters, and heroic quests supply the foundation of Percy Jackson.
Xena: Warrior PrincessNarrower topic: The series adapts Greek gods, heroes, and monsters into its deliberately mixed mythic setting.