Greek and Roman Mythology Index

Primary Sources

Agamemnon by Aeschylus, (reread)

Antigone by Sophocles,

Choephori by Aeschylus, 

Electra by Sophocles,

Eumenides by Aeschylus,

Medea by Euripides,

Medea by Seneca,

Metamorphoses by Ovid,

Oedipus by Seneca, 

Oedipus the King by Sophocles,

Orestes by Euripides, 

Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, 

The Bakkhai by Euripides,

The Histories by Herodotus, (*)

The Iliad by Homer ,

The Odyssey by Homer ,

The Oresteia by Aeschylus, 

Theogony by Hesiod,  

Modern Retellings

An Oresteia translated by Anne Carson,

Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes by Thomas Bulfinch ,

Circe by Madeline Miller, 

Classical Tragedy - Greek and Roman: Eight Plays in Authoritative Modern Translations edited by Robert W. Corrigan, 

Classics Illustrated: The Odyssey: Illustrated by Harley M. Griffiths ,

First There Was Chaos: Hesiod's Story of Creation by Joel Priddy,

Ilium by Dan Simmons ,

Mythology by Edith Hamilton,

Olympos by Dan Simmons ,

Tales of Troy and Greece by Andrew Lang--addendum ,

The Golden Fleece by Robert Graves ,

The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology by Robin Hard,

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller,

The Trojan War by Olivia Coolidge, 

Movies and TV

Aeschylus' Oresteia, 1983 Television version, directed by Peter Hall: Review,

Antigone (1961),

Medea by Euripides freely adapted by Robinson Jeffers (TV Movie, 1983), 

Oedipus Rex (1957), 

Oedipus the King (1968), 

The Theban Plays by Sophocles the BBC, 1986,

(*) Herodotus is mostly history, but does contain some mythology mixed in with the history.

Playlist HERE

Weekly Reading Vlog #90: Library Book Haul (plus a couple of extra books from a book exchange),plans

Hiroshima, Japan: Spring 2002

(Travelogue--Japan Travelogues)

Another travelogue rescued from the archives.  This is yet another old home movie converted to DVD. This video is a continuation of the Kyoto video. Same trip, we just moved down to Hiroshima next. I had never been to Hiroshima before this trip, (although after this, I would since go back several times).

The atomic bomb museum (sometimes called peace museum) there is well worth checking out, although I remember being slightly disappointed because I didn't learn much new. I guess I was expecting to be more blown away than I actually was.

Kyoto, Japan: Spring 2002

(Travelogue--Japan Travelogues)

This is yet another travelogue I'm rescuing from the archives.  This video is the visit to Kyoto in Spring 2002.

 

Another old home movie converted to DVD. During spring break my first year in Japan my parents and youngest sister came over to visit me.

I was eager to show off my little town of Ajimu, the life I had made for myself, and all the little local places I had discovered. My parents wanted to see some of the big tourist spots as well though, so they flew into Osaka, and I took the train up and met them at Kyoto.

Even after close to a year in Japan, this was my first time visiting Kyoto. In fact, if memory serves, it was my first time getting out of Kyushu since I had arrived. Aside from going to the neighboring Fukuoka prefecture once or twice, I don't think I had even left Oita Prefecture. (Obviously my adventurous spirit leaves much to be desired.)

So, I finally got out of my town and went up to meet my parents in Kyoto.

The cherry blossoms were in full bloom, so Kyoto was at it's most beautiful.
It was also at its most crowded. Everyone wanted to see the spring cherry blossoms, and plus it was spring break for every single school in all of Japan. Some of the public parks were so full of people you literally couldn't even find a place to stand.

Also, after having spent so long in my little town in the boondocks of Japan, and being accustomed to being the only white person around, I remember being surprised at how many foreigners there were in Kyoto. At some of these tourist spots, there were more foreigners than Japanese.

Pickerel Lake Park, Cannon Township, Michigan

(Travelogue)

I'm rescuing more travelogues from the archives.  These are videos of Pickerel Lake Park in Michigan that I filmed in 2008.

Part 1:

Part 2:

This was the trails around Lake Pickerel, a park my mom recommended and which I had vague memories of from my Camp Roger days. Although I didn't remember all the trails and day hikers being around when I was a camper. (My mom later told me that the land had been donated to the state and it had been turned into a public park since my Camp Roger days).

Trip to Phu Quoc Island, 2022

(Travelogues--Vietnam)

(For more information about these videos, see HERE)

I had been to Phu Quoc once before back in December 2020, but I never documented it on this blog because December 2020 was in the period after I stopped writing up Travelogues and before I got the idea to start doing Youtube video travelogues.

...although, a couple of months ago, I started trying to fill in the missing years in my Travelogue Project, and turned some of the pictures and videos of Phu Quoc from our Google Photo album into a Youtube video.

But now, for our second trip back to the Island in 2022, I decided to make an effort to document everything more thoroughly on video.

I also decided to try something a bit different with this post.  Instead of writing descriptions of each video, I made a video describing each video.  That video is:

Vlog: Narrating My Trip to Phu Quoc Island

...and the rest of the videos are below.

Ocean Bay Resort and Spa, Phu Quoc Island, Kien Giang Province, Vietnam, Travelogues

Rach Vem fishing village (Làng chài Rạch Vẹm), Phu Quoc Island, Kien Giang Province, Vietnam

Grand World, Phu Quoc Island, Kien Giang Province, Vietnam, Travelogues

These faux European villages are (for whatever reason) popular in Asia.  See other examples of fake European villages in Asia, see also:

* Huis Ten Bosch in Nagasaki

* Bana Hill in Danang

The Teddy Bear Museum (Part of Grand World) Phu Quoc Island, Kien Giang Province, Vietnam

Vin Safari, Phu Quoc Island, Kien Giang Province, Vietnam, Travelogues

VinWonders, Phu Quoc Island, Kien Giang Province, Vietnam, Travelogues

Hon Thom Cable Car, Phu Quoc Island, Kien Giang Province, Vietnam, Travelogues

(I also had some footage of this cable car in my previous video on Phu Quoc).

Aquatopia Water Park, Hon Thom Island, Phu Quoc Island, Kien Giang Province, Vietnam, Travelogues

Sol by Melia (Resort), Phu Quoc Island, Kien Giang Province, Vietnam, Travelogues

(I also had footage of Sol in my previous video on Phu Quoc).

Playlist for everything is HERE: 

Started: The Storm Before the Storm by Mike Duncan

(Weekly Reading Vlog)--Yet another weekly reading vlog without the vlog.  These are just my page totals for this week.  Also, since I posted my page totals on Friday last week, this is a long week.      

Books (206 pages this week)

The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan p.396-494 (finished) (98)

The Odyssey by Homer p.212-320 (finished) (108)

For more information about what this is and why I'm doing it, see HERE.

Finished: The Odyssey by Homer 

The Odyssey by Homer Translated by T.E. Lawrence: Book Review

Finished: The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan--I actually finished this book on December 28, but as I was travelling then, I didn't get a chance to post until now.

The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan: Book Review