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  2. Bernard Evslin - Wikipedia

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    Evslin also wrote the screenplay for A.k.a. Cassius Clay and co-wrote the screenplay for Journey Back to Oz. [3] In the 1960s, he switched gears to novels and short stories, the best-known of which is "Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths" which has been translated into multiple languages and sold over ten million copies across the globe.

  3. Baucis and Philemon - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Haydn wrote a marionette opera Philemon und Baucis, oder Jupiters Reise auf die Erde in 1773. Baucis and Philemon are characters in the fifth act of Goethe's Faust II (1832). Gogol wrote an ironic and bittersweet reworking of the legend in his 1835 novella The Old World Landowners. Charles Gounod wrote his opéra comique Philémon et ...

  4. List of films based on classical mythology - Wikipedia

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    US film - The story of Jason and Argonauts, a band of heroes in Greek mythology, who in the years before the Trojan War (around 1300 BC) accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece. Argonauts: 1971 Russian: Аргонавты USSR - animated film Argonavtebi, or, a Merry Chronicle of a Dangerous Journey: 1986 USSR - TV movie

  5. Category : Animated films based on classical mythology

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    Animated films based on classical mythology, the myths from the ancient Greeks and ancient Romans. Pages in category "Animated films based on classical mythology" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.

  6. Greek mythology - Wikipedia

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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.

  7. List of fiction set in ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    The Greek Generals Talk (1986) The Trojan Generals Talk (1988) Richard Powell, Whom the Gods Would Destroy (1970) Laura Riding, A Trojan Ending (1937) S.P. Somtow, The Shattered Horse (1986) S. M. Stirling. Against the Tide of Years (1999) On the Oceans of Eternity (2000) Rex Stout, The Great Legend (1916) Henry Treece, The Windswept City (1967)

  8. Hercules (1997 film) - Wikipedia

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    Hercules is a 1997 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation for Walt Disney Pictures.It is loosely based on the legendary hero Heracles (known in the film by his Roman name, Hercules), a son of Zeus in Greek mythology.

  9. Prometheus - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, Prometheus (/ p r ə ˈ m iː θ i ə s /; Ancient Greek: Προμηθεύς, [promɛːtʰéu̯s], possibly meaning "forethought") [1] is one of the Titans and a god of fire. [2] Prometheus is best known for defying the Olympian gods by taking fire from them and giving it to humanity in the form of technology, knowledge and ...