Adaptation of Classical Myth
A new PSA from the State of Utah uses a celebrity promo, the Cloud Gatherer himself, to encourage Utahns to try harder to prevent wildfires. — Zeus2.0100_UtahGov The directors of the state’s Fire Sense program know well that road-side fires turn often into large-scale range …
The protagonist of Cold Mountain, Ada, reads to Ruby’s kids and to her own nine-year old daughter the story of Baucis and Philemon, a myth of gained paradise. Without any overt acknowledgement of this myth’s approach within the novel, Frazier uses the myth’s telling as …
———— Post by Sophia Ison* Andrew Bird’s music is often filled with philosophical themes, historical events, current issues, and scientific reference. He also dabbles in exploring classical myths. The folk indie song “Sisyphus”, by whistler extraordinaire Andrew Bird, depicts the endless labor of the previously …
Willy Claflin’s “Pegamoose and the Gorgonzola Medusa” is a mythological adaptation of the classical myth of Perseus and Medusa, a kind of doggerel pastiche passing familiar details but veering into a novel account of a heroic moose. Whether or not the result is comic brilliance …
The work called “Perseus and Andromeda — a role reversal” reworks the central premise of the familiar moment in the Perseus and Andromeda rescue. Here two nudes participate heroically in the rescue of a victim on a sea-side cliff. A desiccated piscine seamonster rises between the …
Agnolo Bronzino executed in 1539 a commission and painted Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici, arguably Europe’s most eligible bachelor. The cocksure portrait (vid. left; link) was intended to convince Eleanora of Toledo of the desirability of her becoming a new Eurydice to Cosimo’s Orpheus. The …
Galatea2.0100_MeissenKaendler Johann Joachim Kaendler, designer, Galatea tureen, part of the Swan Service produced at the Meissen Porcelain pottery (Staatlich Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen), 1740. Kaendler’s elaborate soup tureen depicts the mythological sea-nymph Galatea atop a fish and attended by other marine divinities and several swans. Attributes are …
——— post by Amelia Ferry* Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu; dir. C. Sciamma, 2019) adapts the classical myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Set on an island in 18th-century Bretagne, Sciamma’s screenplay paints the …
Students of Aeschylus’ Oresteia at Brigham Young University once again have cost-free access to a landmark production of the trilogy. Working through the lib.byu.edu/databases with BYU authentication credentials, student can view all three plays of this powerful tragic sequence in their entirety. Even if the video’s …
Myung Sook Kim, 1987 “Sisyphus 6” painting with mixed media on paper. Ownership: Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, Korea https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/sisyphus-6/bgES3fwZk5YOlw http://ogcma.byu.edu/Sisyphus1.0000_Reid.htm Sisyphus tells a story of a man who disrespected the gods and was punished with the futile task of pushing a boulder up a hill, …