Adaptation of Classical Myth
BYU President Kevin J Worthen cited the Pandora myth in his opening devotional to bolster students’ sense of hope in a season of trials. “This story [of Epimetheus and Pandora] – and the use of the term ‘Pandora’s box’ to refer to a multitude of …
International Cinema — a powerhouse program, a jewel in BYU’s crown — will bring three or four films to registered viewers every week of the Fall semester. Two of the Fall2020 films treat classical mythological themes, one as a reception and one as an adaptation. …
Bethany C. Morrow (2020), A Song Below Water (Tor Teen) — two adolescent sirens in and off-shore contemporary Portland, Oregon encounter challenges not unfamiliar to the adolescent and YA readers who will read the novel. I CONFESS*: I am not in the demographic readership for whom Bethany …
Paul Manship, 1885-1966 “Time and the Fates” — OGCMAFates1.0106_Manship 1938 monumental plaster sundial now destroyed (bronze copies survive) Minn. Museum of Art; SAAM for New York World’s Fair of 1939-1940 https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/worlds-fair-models/4gFy23s-lw5Bfw Note: GA&C treats the photograph as the artwork. Margaret Bourke-White, 1938, “World’s Fair Models”, …
Sir Thomas Larence (1769-1830) painted a remarkable portrait of Pope Pius VII (1819)* referencing two mythological sculptural masterpieces from antiquity, the Laocoön and the Apollo Belvedere. Historical and intertextual reasons for this inclusion are worth considering. Historically: Pius VII (1742-1823) found himself grappling against the …
Nicolas Poussin, “Triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite”, mid-1630s, oil on canvas (part of ‘Bacchanals’ series for Château de Richelieu?), Philadelphia Museum of Art, accession no. E1932-1-1 The George W. Elkins Collection, 1932. — Amphitrite1.0029_Poussin A super-hi-res of this painting is available at Google Arts & …