Monday, April 8, 2013

Choose an epic myth or legend to read

This quarter, you will be doing a project on a myth or legend of your choosing (with my approval). Please identify the character or myth, and if you can, tell me the author and link to the story. Leave a comment below.

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  3. The Quest of Medusa's head
    http://www.authorama.com/old-greek-stories-12.html
    Author: James Baldwin

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  4. I want to do Hercules.
    the story is 12 Labors of Hercules.

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  5. Robin Hood and the Silver Arrow
    http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/southwold/project/local/robin7.htm
    There is no one author, but the story originates in Nottingham.

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    1. http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=marshall&book=robin&story=arrow
      ^I'm using this one instead.

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  8. Persephone and Hades
    http://greece.mrdonn.org/greekgods/demeter.html
    The author isn't specified.

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  9. Hou Yi Shot Down Nine Suns--Hou Yi She Ri
    http://www.chinesestoryonline.com/fairy-tale/312-hou-yi-shot-down-nine-suns.html

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  10. The Odyssey by Homer
    http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/odyssey.html

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  12. Táin Bó Cuailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley)
    Irish epic story
    http://www.legendarytours.com/tain.html

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  13. Pandora's Box
    http://myths.e2bn.org/mythsandlegends/textonly562-pandoras-box.html

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  15. Shooting the Sun
    http://www.tacp.gov.tw/tacpeng/home02_3.aspx?ID=$3044&IDK=2&EXEC=L

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    1. actually use this instead
      http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/CHEROKEE/2006-08/1155477838

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  16. Attack of the Mammoth

    http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/07/attack_of_the_mammoth.html

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  17. The monkey king
    http://www.chinaholidays.com/guide/chinese-culture/monkey-king-story.html

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  18. Apollo and Daphne
    Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch
    http://www.classicreader.com/book/2823/5/

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  19. Perseus Saves Andromeda
    http://www.historylink102.com/greece2/perseus_andromeda.htm
    Author: Pierre Mignard, Musee de Louvre, Paris

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  20. Achilles -
    http://www.greekmedicine.net/mythology/achilles.html
    author: Homer

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  21. Atlantis - the lost world
    http://library.thinkquest.org/25245/

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  22. Theseus and the Minotaur

    http://www.greekmyths-greekmythology.com/myth-of-theseus-and-minotaur/

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  23. Daedalus: http://www.pantheon.org/articles/d/daedalus.html

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  25. Prometheus! and fire! and birds of prey! and other scary stuff!
    http://www.prometheas.org/mythology.html

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    1. http://www.authorama.com/old-greek-stories-5.html
      Different Source

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    2. http://www.authorama.com/old-greek-stories-5.html
      Different Source

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  26. Chinese Nian Monster and the Old Wise Man
    http://chineseculture.about.com/library/weekly/aa010900a.htm

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  27. Greek Myths : Jason meeting Phineus
    http://www.greeka.com/thessaly/pelion/pelion-myths/jason-argonauts.htm

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  28. Atalanta
    http://www.hipark.austin.isd.tenet.edu/mythology/atalanta.html

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