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  2. Greek mythology in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    The God of War franchise of video games is loosely based on Greek mythology, with the main character being named after Kratos (though not the same character). [62] The video game Kratos is a warrior from Sparta and the son of the King of the Greek Gods, Zeus and is the personification of power. The series follows Kratos, who initially serves ...

  3. These Places From Greek Mythology Still Exist—and You Can Visit

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    Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesThere was once a man in Greece who longed to build himself an immense banqueting hall, where he could sit and feast all day and night. So he ...

  4. Classical mythology in culture - Wikipedia

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    The myths, however, continued to provide an important source of raw material for dramatists, including those who wrote the libretti for Handel's operas Admeto and Semele, Mozart's Idomeneo, and Gluck's Iphigénie en Aulide. [3] By the end of the century, Romanticism initiated a surge of enthusiasm for all things Greek, including Greek mythology.

  5. Portal:Myths - Wikipedia

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    "Frigg And Her Servants" (1882) by Carl Emil Doepler.. In Norse mythology, Hlín is a goddess associated with the goddess Frigg.Hlín appears in a poem in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, and in kennings found in skaldic poetry.

  6. Modern understanding of Greek mythology - Wikipedia

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    The genesis of modern understanding of Greek mythology is regarded by some scholars as a double reaction at the end of the 18th century against "the traditional attitude of Christian animosity mixed with disdain, which had prevailed for centuries", in which the Christian reinterpretation of myth as a "lie" or fable had been retained. [1]

  7. Prometheus in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    The Eulenspiegel Society began the magazine Prometheus in the early 1970s; [6] it is a decades-long-running magazine exploring issues important to kinksters, ranging from art and erotica, to advice columns and personal ads, to conversation about the philosophy of consensual kink. The magazine now exists online.

  8. Norse mythology in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    In the 2017 video game Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Norse mythology plays a key role in design of the world and enemies, with the developers going to great lengths to research the topic. The 2018 video game God of War, is loosely based on Norse mythology, a change of direction for a series previously centered around Greek mythology.

  9. Archaeomythology - Wikipedia

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    Commenting in The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion, Tõnno Jonuks wrote "Despite stressing the importance of archaeology and using its sources to a greater extent than any other school in the Baltic countries, studies of archaeomythology are still based upon folklore and archaeology has only been used selectively. The ...