• The Greek myths are at the dawn of Western civilization, which was built upon the remains of Greek-Roman civilization, which was in turn built upon the ruins of the Mycenaean civilization.
• Homer, who emerged around 800 BC, is regarded as the author of the first work of literature that Western civilization may count as its own.
• Large sections of Western culture and art—music, painting and literature—refer to the Greek myths or have been inspired by them.
• The Greek myths are concerned with fundamental and imperishable life issues.

See also:

Getting acquainted with the myths

Basic aspects of the Greek myths

Brief history of the Greek myths

The Munificence of the Myths

The Children of the Myths

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Nature of this site

The Greek Mythology Link is a collection of the Greek myths written on line by Carlos Parada, author of the book Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology, published in 1993 (available at Amazon).

The Greek Mythology Link is concerned with the creative, artistic, literary and inspiring aspects of the Greek myths [see articles linked above]. The network created by genealogy has been given particular attention, as well as some structural aspects partly derived from it. The information provided in this site is based on original sources [see below].

The Greek Mythology Link is not normally concerned with the historical, religious, liturgical, anthropological, archaeological, philosophical, ideological, sociological, linguistic, or psychoanalytical approaches to Greek Mythology. Comparative mythology and literary analysis are not the main concern of this site either. References to these or similar analytical areas are occasional.

Sources

The Greek Mythology Link is partly based on Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology by Carlos Parada. A list of libraries in the USA and other countries where this book can be found is included in that link.

Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology and the Greek Mythology Link are exclusively based on original sources, that is, authors from the period between ca. 800 BC and ca. AD 600 [see Bibliography].

An illustrated CD-ROM version of Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology was released in 1997, but the more recently released backups of the Greek Mythology Link are listed at Backups.

Contents

The Greek Mythology Link contains Texts, Images, Maps and Charts.

The material is divided into Central Pages and Topics.

Jerker Blomqvist

Professor of Greek language and literature, Department of Classics, Lund University, Sweden

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Jerker Blomqvist's Book reviews at Bryn Mawr Classical Review:

• Malcolm Kenneth Brown, The Narratives of Konon. Text, Translation and Commentary on the Diegeseis.
• Stephen M. Trzaskoma, R. Scott Smith, Stephen Brunet, Anthology of Classical Myth. Primary Sources in Translation. With an Appendix on Linear B Sources by Thomas G. Palaima.

Contributions to the GML:

• Contributions in section Questions & Answers.
• Artikel: Grekiskan genom 3000 år <> Article: 3000 Years of Greek

André Durand

Painter

Web site: Idea Fine Art - Home of the Durand Gallery

The Durand Blog

Contributions to the GML:

• Durand Album - Contemporary Mythological Paintings (including "Kronos", commented by Dr. Oonagh Lahr, and Dr. Linnar Priimägi).

Gorgo

An enthusiast

Contributions to the GML:

• MYTHOMANIA

Fritz Graf

Professor of Philology

The Ohio State University

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Author of Greek Mythology, An Introduction [1987]

Contributions to the GML:

• Article: La génèse de la notion de mythe

Ian Johnston

Instructor at Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, BC, Canada.

Web site: johnstonia

The Iliad - Translated by Ian Johnston

The Odyssey - Translated by Ian Johnston

Contributions to the GML:

• Table: Deaths in the Iliad (adapted by C. Parada)

Paul Leonard

Translator and teacher in languages

Contributions to the GML:

• Proof-reading and improvement of texts.

Dr. D. Juan Antonio López Férez
Catedrático.
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)
Departamento de Filología Clásica
Facultad de Filología
Madrid, España.

Multilingual volumes recently edited (2002 and 2003) by Juan Antonio López Férez containing essays by relevant specialists and philologists from different countries:

Mitos en la literatura griega arcaica y clásica

Mitos en la literatura griega helenística e imperial

Contributions to the GML:

• Artículo: Los Cíclopes pastores

Alejandro E. Parada
Investigador del Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliotecológicas de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Secretario de Redacción de la revista 'Información, Cultura y Sociedad' especializada en Bibliotecología y Ciencia de la Información. Jefe de la Biblioteca de la Academia Argentina de Letras.

Contributions to the GML:

• Artículo: La Biblioteca de Alejandría: el tiempo reencontrado <> Article: The Library of Alexandria: the time retrieved
• Texto: Diálogo de la vocación bibliotecaria

Mai Parada

Teacher in Swedish and author of textbooks

Contributions to the GML:

• Photographic archive and photographing

Dr. Susanna Roxman
PhD in Comparative Literature, Gothenburg University, Sweden. Anglophone, award-winning poet who has been published world-wide, and author of several books, both in English and Swedish. Critic, arts journalist, and visiting lecturer.

• Books written in English:
  • Guilt and Glory: Studies in Margaret Drabble's Novels 1963-80
  • Broken Angels
  • Goodbye to the Berlin Wall
  • Imagining Seals, Edinburgh 2006
• Books written in Swedish:
  • Riva villor
  • Nymferna kommer
  • Glöm de döda
  • Fjorton poeter från Lund (ed., with Guilem Rodrigues da Silva)
  • Världen i Lund (ed., with Karin Lentz and Guilem Rodrigues da Silva)

Contributions to the GML:

• Compilation: List of Emblems of Classical Deities in Ancient and Modern Pictorial Arts
• Poems

Due to:

- The Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and the Social Sciences (Vetenskapliga rådet - humaniora och samhällsvetenskap) for a grant in aid of publication (Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology, 1993).

- The Swedish Authors' Fund (Sveriges Författarfond) for granting the Greek Mythology Link an aid for publication of images (December 1999).

- Odiseas Papamidimitriou, for providing web hosting at the HSA server (Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA), from December 3, 1998 until December 13, 2001, when the server broke down permanently.

- Readers from around the world whose interest and support resulted in additions, updates, or corrections. Their comments and observations have helped to improve this site. Among them are: John Peradotto, Paul Mulders, Michael Kuharski, Eva Thury, Nancy Keiser, Kat Raynor, Sharon Baker Burress, Eduardo Rodríguez de la Rosa, Piet van der Heijden, Aaron Atsma, Philip Viverito, Gordon Smith, Elwin Taylor, Don Craig, Chantal Simon, Marilynn Lawrence, Yasmin Iqbal, Rachel Leisure, students from Edison High School (2000), Martti Muukkonen, Yiannis Koulouriotis, Alexander Gil, Morgan Brown, Norman E. Anderson, Michael Hall, etc.

- The FORVM ANCIENT COINS who provides a mirror at: http://www.forumancientcoins.com/cparada/GML/ since April 17, 2005.

- Thanks to Paul Åström, Carl G. Liungman, Eduardo Rodríguez de la Rosa, Kenneth and Ingrid Berntsson, book antiquarian Kjell Askagården, Howard Diner, Eeva Isaksson, Dr. Valéria Perez de Sá, Dr. Doris Cunha Gonçalves, Dr. Marika Bajc, Dorian T. Dandridge, David A. Webb, and Hannah Christina Heilmann for offering assistance of various kinds.

© Carlos Parada & Maicar Förlag 1997.

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