Autumn Contest: Greek Mythology in Modern Media
I need your help brainstorming books, movies, and songs with overt elements of Greek Mythology in them! I’ll be giving away the winner’s choice of either a $10 Amazon.com gift certificate or SHADOWHEART, Laura Kinsale’s fabulous fantasy with romantic elements.
To win the contest, you just have to post here on my blog with one unique book, movie, or song featuring Greek Mythology. For example, you might post: The Percy Jackson & The Olympians Movie or maybe Suzanne Vega’s Calypso song. (Except you can’t use either of those because I said them first.)
As long as nobody has posted your book, movie, or film before you did, I’ll enter you in a drawing to win. In fact, I’ll give you one raffle ticket per book, film, or song that you post. And because I need lots and lots of ideas, I’m going to be running this contest for two months with two separate drawings. So you have double the chance to win.
(Note: By entering the contest, you agree to let Stephanie Draven use your name on this website and her blog if you win. Your email address will never be sold or transferred to any third party. Stephanie might, however, contact you with the very occasional update on her writing and career. At your request, however, you’ll be promptly deleted from her mailing list.)
Tags: Contests, Greek Mythology, Modern Mythology
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October 5th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Dan Simmons’ Ilium.
October 5th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Hey there Stephanie,
Your above link to the comment section doesn’t work. It gives an error message.
For the movies, I’d have to say that Clash of the Titans comes to mind!
October 5th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Ridley Scotts (Blade Runner) siting the mythical Pandora
Orestia (directed by Peter Stein)
The Archarnians (directed by Karolos Koun)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (starring Kevin Kline an Michelle Pfeiffer
October 5th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
I have lots more, but I won’t be too greedy here. However, there’s also The Odyssey, with Armand Assante as Odysseus. That was a really good TV production with a great cast of characters!
October 5th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Oh yeah, if you’re going to get into Pandora’s Box, you can’t leave out Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life.
October 6th, 2009 at 7:50 am
Hey Stephanie,
What popped into my head was :
Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Firebrand – Troy story from the view of Cassandra.
Movie – ‘Troy’ starring Brad Pitt, Eric Bana and Orlando Bloom
- Hercules (animated) by Disney
- Hercules in New York – starring Arnold Swartzenegger
TV series – Jason and the Argonauts
October 7th, 2009 at 1:29 am
Hi Stephanie –
Books – Gena Showalter’s Lords of the Underworld series is full of Greek Mythology – lots of gods and of course centered around Pandora and her box.
TV Show – my all time fav, Battlestar Galactica (the re-imagined version). Even though it’s a sci-fi, they did a brilliant job of blending in Greek mythology as the religion of most of the characters.
October 7th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
What about The Madonna Key storyline from Silhouette Bombshell. I think it had some mythology in it.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
TV shows: Hercules -and the spin off, Xena.
October 7th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Anna beat me to the punch with the re-imagined BSG series! And someone else with MZB’s Firebrand.
There’s:
* Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Greek Myths (tv series)
* (Obvious) HBO’s Rome (tv series)
* Helen of Troy (film)
* (GOODIE) O Brother, Where Art Thou (film)
* Wonder Woman (Amazons)
* Hercules/Xena/Young Hercules/Disney
* Pygmalion -> Weird Science, Mannequin
* Chimera -> CSI episode, Power Rangers, X-files, Final Fantasy, Laurell K Hamilton’s novel Narcissus in Chains has a Chimera
* God of War video game
* DC/Marvel Comic Greco-Roman mythological characters
* Medea
* 1997 miniseries The Odyssey
* Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach
And if you want some Norse, watch a cult-classic: Erik the Viking
October 12th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
Hey Stephanie – another great post from you!
How about Bonnie Tyler’s HOLDING OUT FOR A HERO?
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October 13th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Came across this recommendation on goodreads and I thought to share – Percy Jackson and the Olympians series
October 17th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
And I came across this link – Sound of Muses Bundle of ebooks. Lots of greek ones.
http://www.diesel-ebooks.com/cgi-bin/item/BP-6696514673
October 17th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Amusing when I was surfing about Britt McKillip (played Reggie in Dead like Me), I discovered this Canadian cartoon. *giggles*
Class of the Titans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_of_the_Titans
October 31st, 2009 at 1:38 am
Hello-
I hope this message finds you well, I am writing to you regarding theweb series “O-Cast” that went live online Monday October 26th. Here isa bit of info on O-Cast; created by a team of over 50 recent collegegraduates in NYC:
“O-Cast is a mockumentary web series created by the twelve Olympian
gods of Greek mythology to broadcast their new lives as 20-something
New Yorkers. Comedy ensues as they combine forces to convince the
mortals of their modern relevance and inspire a new generation of
believers. Shot in high-definition and broadcast in short episodes
online, O-Cast merges ancient legend with the power of viral video.”
More detailed information and our Press Kit (photos & info) can be
found at http://www.o-cast.com/press.html
Episodes, Trailers and video content is available:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ocastwebseries
Please forward any inquiries you may have by replying to this email. I
am available to speak to you if you would like to
write about the series. Thank you for your time.
Take care and all the best,
–
Bryan Dechart
Director / Executive Producer
O-Cast: The Series
producers@o-cast.com
http://www.o-cast.com
November 6th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Song: Hermes (Finnish version of Pandora’s Box):
http://www.foxytunes.com/artist/hector_kirka_pepe_willberg_pave_maijanen#/track/hermes
November 7th, 2009 at 11:16 am
Oh how could I forget BSG?! slaps forehead. Great one Anna!
I could add that Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis have references to Greek Mythology (the second one having Atlantis in the title) – and their ships Pegasus, Icarus, Daedalus.
Waiting in my TBR pile is -
The Song of Troy by Colleen McCullough
The Illiad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
Rick Riordin’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians books (The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan’s Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, and The Last Olympian)
Traci Harding’s An Echo in Time (Atlantis) Book 2 of The Ancient Future trilogy
November 15th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
How bout, Deidre Knight’s:
Red Fire
Red Kiss
November 15th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Jason and the arganaughts
and Thors Hammer
Morpheus from the ever popular The Matrix
yes i have an obsession with Syfy movies lol cool contest
November 15th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
Good thinking, Cathy! I just started Deirdre Knight’s Greek warrior series.
November 16th, 2009 at 2:57 am
you may not know but Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dark huter novels some times have greek Gods in them.And you may injoy reading them.Hope you find what your looking for.
sasluvbooks(at)yahoo(dot)com
November 16th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Helen of Troy
and what about Wonder Woman
December 7th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Goddess of Spring
Goddess of Love
Goddess of Light
those are all by P.C. Cast
Hades Daughter
Darkwitch Rising
God’s Concubine
Druid’s Sword
all by Sara Douglass
American Gods: A Novel by Neil Gaiman
Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles (Myths, The)
The Wind in the Willows (Signet Classics) by Liz Peterson
The King Must Die: A Novel by Mary Renault
Goddess of Yesterday by Caroline B. Cooney
Nobody’s Princess by: Esther Friesner
I LOVE GREEK Mythology.
Monica
December 9th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
How about :-
Apollo’s Song by John Lyly
December 15th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
I drew two winners and they were Stacy Smith and Monica Shroeder! Congratulations and enjoy the book or gift certificates!
January 28th, 2010 at 12:53 am
I don’t know if you’re still running a contest, but my personal favorites are by Sophocles:
Ajax, Electra, Philoctetes, The Women of Trachis, Oedipus (top of list favorite), Antigone.
Other gods and heroes with fun stories:
Bellerophon, Theseus, The Epigoni, Meleager and the Boar, Prometheus, Europa, Heracles, the Last Tantalides . . . I could go forever.
Also a spin-off of Greek mythology (still a great read): C.S. Lewis’ “Till We Have Faces”
Mission: Impossible II also has a Greek mythology reference with Bellerophon and Chimera.
Also, a new “Clash of the Titans” is coming out this year, featuring Sam Worthington (from Avatar) as Perseus.
January 28th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
I already picked a winner for this contest Jessi, but I’m running a winter one now if you want to enter it!