Overall Assignment: Select and research a figure from Greek hero mythology, then compare the ancient representation of that figure to two modern representations (e.g. look at Medusa in ancient source material and compare those ancient perspectives to 1) Medusa in the 1981 Clash of the Titans film and 2) Luciano Garbatis 2008 statue of Medusa). Then produce a poster that presents your research with text and images.

For this assignment any source from the Greek or Roman worlds will count as ancient. Modern is anything from the medieval period to now. Modern resources can include texts, visual arts (sculpture, painting, etc.) songs, comics, video games.

This assignment will require you to work with primary source material and to be a careful observer of textual and visual narratives.

There are two phases to this assignment: This assignment is for Phase 1.

***Phase 1: Selection of topic and proposal – DUE Monday, 28 March. Compose a brief paragraph (2-3 sentences maximum) indicating 1) which figure from Greek hero myths you are going to work on (see the list below), 2) why you are interested in that figure, and 3) your current thoughts on what two modern representations you might use – this might be as simple as indicating an interest in working with films or video games as your modern comparanda. (5% of assignment grade)

Select your mythological figure from this list: (these have been selected as they have plenty of ancient and modern material to draw from)

Medusa
The Sirens
Polyphemus the Cyclops
The Minotaur
Orpheus
Heracles (n.b. Heracles is a huge topic and you will have to be careful about focus)
Achilles
Odysseus
Medea
Hippolyta/Amazons
Helen of Troy