What are three things that show greek mythology in modern times?

Question

I need tangible "artifacts" that have direct connections to greek mythology, like products, books, ads, song lyrics, etc. I've looked all over and my findings have been poor... Does anyone have good suggestions? Thanks!

Answer 1

Hi:

This is sort of a fun project. I had to do something similar when I was in high school many years ago - I still think about it. It is pretty amazing how many references there are.

Chore Boy Golden Fleece scouring cloths (I found a lot of references to the Golden Fleece)

Argus cameras (from Argus the creature with 100 eyes)
Olympus cameras

Ceres - the goddess of the harvest, is the root term of cereal. A named asteriod too.

One of the stories from the King James version of the Bible about the 2 angels visiting Lot and his family in Sodom - if I remember correctly, there was a very similar story where Zeus and Hermes took the guises of travellers and visited a small family who were very kind to them, and unaware of their true identities - there seems to be a lot of similar Christian associations with the thought of 'angel unaware'.

It seems like there is a lot of belief that a creative person is visited by a muse (or angel) who inspires them to do great work. A fairly recent movie with that theme was "The Muse". The movie "Dogma" also had an angel/muse character played by Salma Hayek.

Mnemonic - is a term derived from the Titan goddess Mnemosyne the goddess of memory, and the mother of the nine muses.

Arachne - the weaver who challenged Athena in a weaving contest, and was transformed into a monster that was half-woman half-spider. This term is the root of the taxonomical class of Arachnida, the term for spiders, and there are a lot of references to monsters in sci-fi/fantasy type work that are half-human half-spider.

Almost all of the women that were seduced by Zeus in some form can probably be traced to something current - check out Leto, Danae, Europa. Gustav Klimt created a beautiful rendition of Danae as a subject in one of his paintings.

Some sayings:
sops for Cereberus (don't hear that too often)

There are many examples of allegorical paintings from history where the subject is from Greek mythology.

Well, this could probably take me all day. Have fun with this, and I hope these help and give you more ideas.

Answer 2

Midas', the car-fixing company, slogan is The Golden Touch, referring to the myth that King Midas became so greedy he asked Apollo to give him a touch of gold. Everything he touched became gold, so he couldn't eat or drink and eventually asked Apollo to take the gift back.

Nike is the goddess of victory.

Hmm.....They are many books referring to Greek mythology. Tell you what, I'll come back later and tell you more.

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

There's the Atlas Moving Company. Have you ever heard of the plant , the Venus Fly Trap ....that so effortlessly traps its unsuspecting victims. Go online to see a picture of it. There's also Cupid, seen everywhere during February. In coastal towns, you will find at least one restaurant or bar named " Neptune". Remem ber Rocky Baloboa's first opponent..... Apollo!

Answer 4

Battlestar Galactica!!!!! They use greek mythology all the time.

Stargate Sg-1 & Stargate Atlantis - They use a lot of mythology: Egyptian, Greek, Roman, & Norse.

Also, Wonder Woman & Aquaman comic books.


Dude, I am such a geek! *shrugs* Oh, well.

Answer 5

the Olympic torch and the lighting of the bowl of fire pays homage to Prometheus bringing fire to man.
romeo and juliet and sleuth of movies about star-crossed lovers was spawned by the Greek myths of pryamus and thisbe.
my fair lady from Pygmalion and Galatea.
the Venus razor, the goddess of beauty and love
I'm your Venus, the song by bananarama
Venus Williams, the goddess of beauty and love
the Electra and Oedipus complexes based on Greek tragedies.
even the modern day fortune tellers and Gypsies and Barbara Gordon aka bat-girl aka the oracle came from the oracle of Delphi
Ajax the Greek hero from the Iliad name of detergent
the names of our planets and moons in our solar system.
we still refer to flaws or weaknesses as the Achilles heel from the Iliad, the Greek hero who killed hector whose only weakness was his heels.

Answer 6

The first space shuttle NASA sent into space was nameb Apollo, after the greek god who always inspired us to reach for the stars.

Answer 7

books about the mythology
there are buildings in Greece /// like the Parthenon
Greek statues in museums
operas: Richard Strauss "Die Agyptische Helena"
Hector Berlioz: "Les Troyens, another opera ...

hope these help