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Hello, I have a request for some more information. I am doing a paper and part of it has to do with mykonos and the war between the greek gods and the titans. Can anyone post more about this or give me a site about it? All I can seem to find is bad stuff, fanfiction, or travel sites.

Thank you I appreciate it very much.

Part of the reason you may be finding blocks in your research is because Mykonos is where Zeus fought the Gigantes - the Gigantomachia occurred after the Titanomachia (better known as the Battle of the Titans). To find more about how Mykonos ties into your paper's focus, try looking up "Zeus and the Gigantes", "Gigantomachia" and "Gigantomachy."

As far as the Titanomachia goes, there is a large wealth of knowledge available, as it's an important story in the Greek and Roman Creation Myth. Along with Edith Hamilton's Mythology, you can try Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch and Myths of the Greeks and Romans by Michael Grant.

Online sources might include Wikipedia (not for your primary source, but to find links to good primary sources), The Encyclopedia Mythica (http://www.pantheon.org/) and The Theogony of Hesiod at the Internet Sacred Text Archive (http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/hesiod/theogony.htm). There are also other works that may be helpful in the Classics area of the ISTA: http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/index.htm.

I hope that helps you out.

I suspect this is all a bit too late to help him with his paper.

XDD I just realized, RedMage. *runs away with embarrassment*

For future reference though, I agree on the Edith Hamilton thing. She pretty much wrote the book on Greek mythology, though she's got some blinders and doesn't seem to think any cultyures had myths except for greeks and to a lesser extent the Norse. What she does write is nothing but top grade, though.

Etoh*the*Greato wrote:For future reference though, I agree on the Edith Hamilton thing. She pretty much wrote the book on Greek mythology, though she's got some blinders and doesn't seem to think any cultyures had myths except for greeks and to a lesser extent the Norse. What she does write is nothing but top grade, though.

I know, I had to read her book for school, and to me it was as if she was saying, "The Greeks were the most intellectual and creative people of that time. Everybody else was a bunch of dull, primitive, cave-dwelling, monster/demon-worshipping tribe folk." It was a major put-off for me

You know what? I felt exactly the same way.

The most disappointing thing about Hamilton's book, in my view, was her treatment of Norse mythology, which seemed like a tacked-on afterthought.

RedMage wrote:I suspect this is all a bit too late to help him with his paper.

! So it is. That's what I get for replying without checking the date of the first post.

RedMage wrote:The most disappointing thing about Hamilton's book, in my view, was her treatment of Norse mythology, which seemed like a tacked-on afterthought.

This is actually something that happens in a lot of books of mythology. Norse mythology, Celtic mythology and First Nations mythology tend to be pushed to the wayside, as do many of the older Middle Eastern mythologies. Greek and Roman mythology, and to a lesser extent Egyptian mythology, tend to hog the limelight. It's partly cultural influence (being that the Western world was heavily influenced by the Mediterranean) and partly because many of the world's ancient artifacts and structures come from those areas. Plenty of people recognize the temples of Greece and Rome or the Pyramids of Egypt, even if they don't recognize the temple of Angkor Wat, the Cahokia Mounds, or a representation of Mjolnir.

Best piece of middleeastern mythology I ever read was the folk tale of the crazy brother. Look it up!