Talk:Greek Mythology
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[edit] New chapters
I added new chapters for (1) Sources and (2) Theoretical Issues. DKleinecke (talk) 16:37, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
What I have in mind in a chapter on Sources is a description of the documents (and other things) that provide us with knowledge of the Greek Mythology. Things like brief biographies (in so far as that is possible) of Homer and Hesiod and the others. Also discussion of who might have written the Homeric hymns, why and where. We might even want to go so far as the question of did Homer write Homer? DKleinecke (talk) 16:37, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
What I have in mind in a chapter on Theoretical Issues is a discussion of the more technical matters placed here so as to minimize the interference with the stories as literature. For example, is the catalog of ships really a survival from Mycenaean times? Or what is the relationship of Greek mythology to Ugaritic mythology? Or what exactly do the remains of Linear B tell us about the mythology. DKleinecke (talk) 16:37, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Separate Books
I've already said this on the Egyptian Mythology Wikibook. Each mythology would probably be better off with its own book, rather than one chapter in another. --Kyriakos 22:40, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
- Where is the problem? When you have real paper books on your bookshelf, do you really see the difference between several volumes of a multi-volume work and several books in a series? So why not make a "book" (series, whatever) about mythology with links to the "books" (volumes, whatever) on Greek and Egyptian mythology? The internet is a hypertext! What is important is that the same work is not done twice, so of course the information in the different mythology modules should indeed be merged. But what the resulting page is called does not matter. Names are just addresses. --Daniel Bunčić 11:40, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
- Actually, I think mythology sections would benefit by being closely associated, so that the cross-links between traditions could be more easily pointed up. Lnhammer 20:09, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Stories
Suggest delete the stories of the Minotaur and Sphinx, and deal with them strictly under Beasts. Lnhammer 21:01, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Help Please
How do you insert an image? I found a great non-copyrighted Gods Genealogy Image.
Trooper209 23:56, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Names of Mythological Characters
I've read all the articles that have made and what I saw is there so much inconsistency of the spelling of the names of the characters. I know, there are some spelling of the names, but we should use common spelling of the names. I've seen some spelling of Kronos to [i]Chronos[/i], but the most common spelling of this name is Cronus. We should use common spelling to all the articles so that readers, especially the readers who are not familiar of mythology, can easily relate easily. I will now fixed the spelling.Hedwig0407 04 August 2006
"Common" is dependent on where you are and what you're taught. For example, where I live, the college I go to, my literature teacher taught us Odysseus as "common." I am aware, most of the rest of the world uses Ulysseus as "common." Maybe we could list common other spellings along with what we know the standard to be? Just to save confusion. Webjunkie 04:06, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
Most of the names are completely wrong. All of the names are from latin, e.g. uranus is actually oranos, Hecules is actually heracles... Therefore I'm fixing these names to their original greek equivalents Wikisquared 21:04, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
Perhaps we ought to clarify that this is a Greek Mythology page. Thus, we should NOT be considering the latin forms for any characters' name because latin was used by the Romans, whereas Greeks spoke Greek. This is why we use Zeus and not Jupiter, Odysseus and not Ulysses (not Ulysseus). I even dispute the spelling of Heracles. I think it ought to be Herakles, which I was taught in university (in Classical Mythology). How are we ever to agree on these if we each have a preferred spelling? Our preferences are too dependent upon the books our professors chose for us to read. Perhaps there should be a page devoted to the variations of all the names. MKnock 12:12, 8 April 2007 (EST)
[edit] Target audience?
What age range are we aiming this textbook for, and why? My curiosity stems from wanting to contribute yet not knowing who the readers will be - college age, or elementary school? Haiduc (talk) 21:23, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
