Mythology

Post by **Wally** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 5:21 am

What site?
The land of losts?
It is active again you know!

Post by **cosmichedgehog** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 1:16 pm

Yes, I know bunny.

I'll been putting in an appearance there again...... when you least expect it.

Post by **Wally** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 1:54 pm

Cool, I am working on a titan abbility!
The goblins already have one.. (but don't think they can use it already, unless they have a thousand posts)

ScottBommarito · Post by **ScottBommarito** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 6:44 pm

cosmichedgehog wrote: I've always found this a useful reference site: THE ENCYCLOPEDIA MYTHIC

It divides the type of mythology by continient to make finding info a little easier... and it also includes a beastiary.

I've done some reading on Egyptian mythology.... but I don't know a lot details. I'm interested in creation myths, and the Eyyptain one has some unque elements to it. I've also started read Norse mythology recently.... thanks to the time a spent at Wally's site - I realized that i had never had much exposure to it.

I love that site! I usually use it on one of my "monthly addictions" or "weekly addictions"!

Capt.Rutlinger · Post by **Capt.Rutlinger** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 12:31 pm

do guys now the story of Jason and the Argonauts by Appolonius off Rhodes

Post by **superlion** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 6:07 pm

They went to get the golden fleece, right?

Post by **Jay** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 10:58 pm

Yes, it is the fable concerning the golden fleece. The fable "THE ARGONAUTICA" by Apollonius Rhodius can be found at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/Argonautica . But I find that to be difficult to read. I personally like the less detailed, but easier to read, version in Bullfinch's Mythology. You can find that at http://www.bulfinch.org/fables/bull17.html . By searching for Jason or Argonauts in the above Encyclopedia Mythica, you can also get even less detailed versions (as well as links to the other 2 I listed).

Post by **superlion** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 11:02 pm

Ah.... now I remember what book I was thinking of... I read Medea last year in English class...

Capt.Rutlinger · Post by **Capt.Rutlinger** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 1:09 pm

well you know I've read it in latin, I can tell u it's hard
but the hardest book ever to read in Latin has to be the Aeneis by Publius Vergilius Maro.

ScottBommarito · Post by **ScottBommarito** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 6:25 pm

Capt.Rutlinger wrote: well you know I've read it in latin, I can tell u it's hard
but the hardest book ever to read in Latin has to be the Aeneis by Publius Vergilius Maro.

You can read in Latin? How do you?

Post by **superlion** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 6:50 pm

Just like reading any other foreign language... learn the language and you will be able to read it. There is no magic trick to make a person instantaneously able to read it... Capt.R has probably taken several years of it in school

ScottBommarito · Post by **ScottBommarito** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 8:11 pm

Yeah it's the "dead language" so people learn it and read in it. Also latin is what many scientific names are in.

Post by **superlion** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 10:30 pm

it's basically what all scientific names are in, although a fair number are people's name or words from other languages romanicised... ie made similar to latin... but I can read a minimal amount of it from a combination of speaking Spanish and my history teacher four years ago drilling us on slides he had taken of Roman artifact (and actual Roman artifacts I have seen in England and in Italy)

Back more on topic... I just remembered Medea had a propensity to cut people into small pieces...

Post by **Dragon_of_doom** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 10:55 pm

superlion wrote: Back more on topic... I just remembered Medea had a propensity to cut people into small pieces...

Yay, She cut up her own brother Apsyrtus. And she cut up
King Pelias to pieces and boil him. Yuck! 6_9

aapman · Post by **aapman** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 11:10 am

Cronos ate his kids too. Greek mythology is sometimes Horror