Adaptation of Classical Myth
Honoré Daumier’s satirical cartoon “De Charybde en Scylla” (From Charybdis to Scylla) is cataloged in the Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts as a usage of the myth of Odysseus with Scylla and Charybdis. The usage, however, has more to do with Scylla …
OresteiThis post was written for MythMatters in August 2015 and modestly corrected here. Miklós Jancsó adapted the stageplay by L. Gyurkó, Szerelmem, Elektra, into the 1974 film Electra, My Love. The film is very watchable as cinema … for some viewers (to judge by the Amazon.com reviews!). …
Carol Ann Duffy’s (b. 1955) “Eurydice” appears as the twenty-fourth poem in her collection The World’s Wife, sidled between “Salome” and “the Kray Sisters”. Like her sisters in the collection, Duffy’s Eurydice vocalizes a silenced woman from literature and myth. Duffy’s witty feminist …
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 …
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, …
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. …