J ROCK :: GREEK MYTH LINKS

<<<GREEK MYTH LINKS>>>	Joellyn Rock Assistant Professor UMD Dept of Art + Design
For our Digital Studio Narrative project we will be dividing into teams to re-tell Greek Myths. Peruse these links to see if any of the Greek Myths is particularly appealing to you. See if you can find a short version of the myth. IF possible, print out the short version of your favorite myth to bring to class. Greek Mythology http://www.greekmythology.com/ Encyclopedia Mythica: Greek mythology http://www.pantheon.org/areas/mythology/europe/greek Mythweb http://www.mythweb.com/ Classics on the web http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ Women in Greek Myths http://www.paleothea.com ABC Arts Online: Winged Sandals http://abc.net.au/arts/wingedsandals	ART AND MYTH Mythography \| Greek Mythology and Art http://www.loggia.com/myth Mythological themes in modern art include... the Minotaur, Icarus, Arachne, Orpheus, Psyche, Narcissus, the Muses... These myths have been passed along through different cultures and languages. They are altered with each new telling. Yours should be contemporary, and reflect your point of view as a storyteller today using digital media.
MYTHUS http://mythus.com/ BBC :: Greek Gods http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/features/greek_gods/ Ancient Greece http://www.ancientgreece.com Bulfinch's Mythology http://www.bulfinch.org Prometheus Bound by Tim Rollins and KOS http://www.diacenter.org/kos/ Giorgio De Chirico and the Myth of Ariadne www.studio-international.co.uk/painting/chirico.htm Greek Myth in the Cinema http://www.greekmyth.org/Cinema.html Persephone and Demeter http://www.poets.org/LIT/exh/ex009fst.htm Digital Art Links	Artists have distinctive uses of myth, such as: Picasso, de Chirico, Beckmann, Ernst, Pollock, Motherwell, Newman, Rothko, Beuys... Goddess imagery - Spero, Flack, others The Minotaur and the Labyrinth - Masson, Picasso, Magritte Dionysos and dionysian themes (ecstasy and fertility; bacchanalia) The hero and the hero's journey: Odysseus, Heracles, Theseus, Belerephon and Pegasus Myths on art, craft and transformation: Daedalus, Arachne, Marsyas, Pygmalion and Galatea Orpheus in Symbolism; Music, Death (Moreau, Redon, Delville); modern interpretations - Cocteau; Newman And many others