Useful Links
Greek Mytholgy: Basic tools
- Some mythology links
- Theoi: a comprehensive reference
- Encyclopedia Mythica
- Greek Mythology.com
- Mythweb (another encyclopedia)
- Perseus Digital Library (includes original Greek and Latin texts)
Other creation stories
- Ancient near eastern mytholgy (Encyclopedia Mythica)
- Sumerian Mythology
- Canaanite Mythology
- Canaan and ancient Israel
- A page on Egyptian goddesses and near eastern goddesses
Films (if links don't work, try Blackboard)
- Ancient Worlds (Video series)
- Other ancient documentaries
- Ancient worlds: The battle of Megiddo
- Lost civilzations: The Minoans
- Ancient civilizations: the Mycenaeans and the Phoenicians
- World's earliest civilization on the site of modern Iraq
- Forgotten kingdoms: The Mesopotamians
- Mythology movies
- Short intro to Greek Gods
- BBC:Greek myths--tales of traveling heroes
- Greek mythology: Gods and goddesses
- Story of the Trojan war
- Music video performed in ancient Greek
- Selected films based on greek myths
- Clash of the Titans (Perseus Myth) 2010 and Wrath of the Titans (2012 sequel)
- Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
- Black Orpheus (1959)
- O Brother Where Art Thou (Odyssey) 2000
- Hercules (Disney, 1997)
- My Fair Lady (Pygmalion Myth, 1964)
- Oedipus the King (1968)
- Ulysses (1967) based on Joyce Joyce's novel, which was based on Homer
- The Trojan Women (1971)
- Selected films based on Dante's Inferno
- Jacob's Ladder (1990)
- Se7en (1995)
- Clerks II
- Goddard's Notre Music (2004)
Novels and other literary responses to Mythology and Inferno (Note: the selections are vast; here are just a few)
- Odyssey
- Atwood, Penelopiad
- Huler, No man's Land
- Joyce,Ulysses
- Shay, Odysseus in America
- Inferno
- Thigpen,My Visit to Hell
- Brown, Inferno
- Pearl, The Dante club
- Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
- Rogers, Samurai Cat Goes to Hell
- Cupid and Psyche Myth
- Lewis, Till We Have Faces
- Orpheus/ Eurydice
- Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet