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Greek mythology has changed over time to accommodate the evolution of their culture, of which mythology, both overtly and in its unspoken assumptions, is an index of the changes. In Greek mythology's surviving literary forms, as found mostly at the end of the progressive changes, it is inherently political, as Gilbert Cuthbertson (1975) has argued.
In 1928, Richard Strauss wrote the German opera Die ägyptische Helena (The Egyptian Helena), which is the story of Helen and Menelaus's troubles when they are marooned on a mythical island. [106] The 1938 short story, "Helen O'Loy", written by Lester del Rey, details the creation of a synthetic woman by two mechanics. The title is wordplay ...
A True Story (Ancient Greek: Ἀληθῆ διηγήματα, Alēthē diēgēmata; Latin: Vera Historia or Latin: Verae Historiae), also translated as True History, is a long novella or short novel [1] written in the second century AD by the Syrian author Lucian of Samosata. [2]
Some two dozen other Greek and Roman authors retold and further embellished the Prometheus myth from as early as the 5th century BC (Diodorus, Herodorus) into the 4th century AD. The most significant detail added to the myth found in, e.g., Sappho, Aesop and Ovid [61] was the central role of Prometheus in the creation of the human race ...
The story of Damon (/ ˈ d eɪ m ən /; Ancient Greek: Δάμων, gen. Δάμωνος) and Pythias (/ ˈ p ɪ θ i ə s /; Πυθίας or Φιντίας; or Phintias, / ˈ f ɪ n t i ə s /) is a legend in Greek historic writings illustrating the Pythagorean ideal of friendship.
Odysseus removing his men from the company of the lotus-eaters. In Greek mythology, lotophages or the lotus-eaters (Ancient Greek: λωτοφάγοι, romanized: lōtophágoi) were a race of people living on an island dominated by the lotus tree off coastal Tunisia (Island of Djerba), [1] [2] a plant whose botanical identity is uncertain.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1873) Harry Thurston Peck, Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898) Hamilton, Edith (1969). "Eight Brief Tales of Lovers". Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes. Mentor. pp. 115– 118. ISBN 0-451-62803-9
The Myth of Sisyphus, a 1942 philosophical essay by Albert Camus which uses Sisyphus's punishment as a symbol for the absurd. Sisyphus: The Myth, a 2021 South Korean TV series, which uses the myth as a symbol for its theme. Sisyphus cooling, a cooling technique named after the Sisyphus myth; Syzyfowe prace, a novel by Stefan Żeromski