Greek Mythology Web Wonders

Mythweb

www.mythweb.com

Author Joel Skidmore

This website is great for teachers, parents and students. It is kidsafe and has a wonderful privacy policy. This site has fun and colorful links to information about the gods, heroes, and also includes an encyclopedia. There is also a section titled “Today” (http://www.mythweb.com/today/today01.html) which talks about what makes the Greek myths relevant to today. Wonderful site!!

Greek Mythology and Pre-History

http://community.middlebury.edu/~harris/SubIndex/greekmyth.html

This is actually a book for which the author created an edited desktop version for the internet. By William Harris, Professor at Middlebury College

This site is not colorful by any means, but would be good for a teacher source to get specific information on each of the specific Greek Myths and characters of Greek mythology. I would say that it would be a source which teachers would be able to pull information and one which he or she may choose to have their students read. There are some chapters that might not be relevant to what the teacher is teaching. Otherwise good information.

Greek Mythology

http://www.desy.de/gna/interpedia/greek_myth/greek_myth.html

John M. Hunt

This site has quite a bit of information. Links to each of the characters separately as well as links to specific stories. Teachers this would be great for you as there is a lot of information. Beware that there are some links that do not work all of the time as they may be under construction, and also that you may have to use many links to get to the information that you are looking for. Lots of information, but not easy to get to.

Greek Mythology Today

http://www.mythman.com/

This site is a little deceiving, it might be fun for the purpose of the story telling, but the site has promises of a homework help link that does not work. There are some fun pictures and such on this website, but otherwise not much use out of it.

Greekmythology.com

http://www.greekmythology.com/

This website has short synopses about each of the characters in Greek mythology. I personally found some of it to be confusing as there are so many links. There is a very useful genealogy tree of the gods that could come in handy. Beware that there are quite a few advertisements that pop up with each click on a link. Good information but not the best approach to receive it.

Greek Mythology compared to Norse Mythology

http://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/

This is a very developed site dealing with the comparison between Greek and Norse mythologies. It discusses in detail the Greek myths and characters and then gives the details of the Norse counterparts. Very informative and kept up frequently.

The Immortals

http://www.messagenet.com/myths/immortals.html

This site has numerous links to each of the gods and goddesses. Not only does it give you the background on each, it also gives the pronunciation and other various bits of information. It also has examples of where you can find the god or goddess in the Illiad and in the Odyssey. Very useful for information and very simple to use.

Encyclopedia Mythica

http://www.pantheon.org/mythica.html

Very useful site! Not only are there many links to information within the site, there is also a place to search for articles stemming from the encyclopedia’s on Greek mythology. The information also includes specific genealogy tables etc. This is a site I would recommend using over and over.

Hellenism Network

http://www.hellenism.net/eng/mythology.htm

This site is very general but has many links with lots of useful information. Many links to specific characters and myths.

Greek Mythology

http://entrenet.com/~groedmed/greekm/myth.html

This site is good for teachers and students as well. It includes information about the myths and characters, and also has many activities that would be useful in the classroom. There is a vocabulary activity along with a crossword puzzle activity. Highly useful site.

Mythology in Modern Society

http://thanasis.com/modern/places.htm

This is a wonderful site for a specific reason. It has a listing of all of the places in the United states that have names that come from Greek Mythology.