Ancient Greek culture has been a prominent part of humanities history and is a surprising addition to modern entertainment. There are many different renditions of Greek myths that leave room for interpretation and manipulation for a smoother transition into modern civilization. Living in such a science-orientated, fast paced world as we do today, entertainment is constantly being revised and reimagined to satisfy all types of audiences. Ancient Greek mythology being changed and glamorized for contemporary society is no different. As technology further removes the dissatisfaction in people’s lives, filmmakers and writers must constantly defy the past boundaries of excitement and invent new, more out-of-the-box twists that will leave the audience
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Mark Golden’s ideas in “Sport and Society in Ancient Greece,” “Energy once expended in the hunt, left undepleted by the act of sacrifice, is spent in sport” 3 lends to the impression that ancient Greek cultures searched for ways to expend their energy through physical exertion unlike like how contemporary society now expends its excess energy through film, video games, and literature. Because of the stark contrast in living condition from our past to our present, the views of a modern day person can rely heavily on the bank of scientific knowledge that has been accumulated throughout history. This being said, to see that world how the ancient Greeks did, through divine etiological explanations, can be challenging because of the scientific bias that clouds people’s imagination. Therefore, entertaining the modern person is different that what it was many years ago. George J. Posner, et al. views in “Accommodation of a Scientific Conception,” “When faced with an anomaly…One may come to the conclusion that one’s existing conceptions require some fundamental revisions in order to eliminate the conflict” 4 suggests that assimilating ancient Greek beliefs into contemporary society could be more difficult than anticipated. To keep people hooked, myths must be shaped around what people today see as interesting. Although seemingly simple, re-shaping myths to fit contemporary …show more content…
Interpreting the myths more thoroughly implied that Riordan to could simply add characteristics and abilities onto characters within his novels that wouldn’t be too far-fetched as to be implausible. One of the first thing Riordan implements to legitimize his novels into modern society, is explaining that Mt. Olympus was attached to western civilization, and therefore moved in accordance to the location with the most power. Currently in the novel, Olympus is located far above the Empire State Building on the 600th floor. The second thing Riordan explains is about something called the mist. In ancient Greek mythology, Hecate is described in mythology to have fairly universal powers. Taking advantage of this, Riordan writes that Hecate creates a mist that makes people see the mundane realities they would expect, rather than the divine circumstances that they are actually surrounded by so as to not alienate the novel too far from modern society. Further along in the story Riordan makes use of specific attributes of the gods; in Camp Half-Blood he writes “[Hermes] cabin takes all newcomers, all visitors” 6 - 89 knowing that Hermes is the patron god of travellers, he takes this knowledge and applies it to the workings of a summer camp. Riordan creates an easy pathway to relate the ancient mythology in his novel to modern society through the mundane practice of
Mark Golden’s ideas in “Sport and Society in Ancient Greece,” “Energy once expended in the hunt, left undepleted by the act of sacrifice, is spent in sport” 3 lends to the impression that ancient Greek cultures searched for ways to expend their energy through physical exertion unlike like how contemporary society now expends its excess energy through film, video games, and literature. Because of the stark contrast in living condition from our past to our present, the views of a modern day person can rely heavily on the bank of scientific knowledge that has been accumulated throughout history. This being said, to see that world how the ancient Greeks did, through divine etiological explanations, can be challenging because of the scientific bias that clouds people’s imagination. Therefore, entertaining the modern person is different that what it was many years ago. George J. Posner, et al. views in “Accommodation of a Scientific Conception,” “When faced with an anomaly…One may come to the conclusion that one’s existing conceptions require some fundamental revisions in order to eliminate the conflict” 4 suggests that assimilating ancient Greek beliefs into contemporary society could be more difficult than anticipated. To keep people hooked, myths must be shaped around what people today see as interesting. Although seemingly simple, re-shaping myths to fit contemporary …show more content…
Interpreting the myths more thoroughly implied that Riordan to could simply add characteristics and abilities onto characters within his novels that wouldn’t be too far-fetched as to be implausible. One of the first thing Riordan implements to legitimize his novels into modern society, is explaining that Mt. Olympus was attached to western civilization, and therefore moved in accordance to the location with the most power. Currently in the novel, Olympus is located far above the Empire State Building on the 600th floor. The second thing Riordan explains is about something called the mist. In ancient Greek mythology, Hecate is described in mythology to have fairly universal powers. Taking advantage of this, Riordan writes that Hecate creates a mist that makes people see the mundane realities they would expect, rather than the divine circumstances that they are actually surrounded by so as to not alienate the novel too far from modern society. Further along in the story Riordan makes use of specific attributes of the gods; in Camp Half-Blood he writes “[Hermes] cabin takes all newcomers, all visitors” 6 - 89 knowing that Hermes is the patron god of travellers, he takes this knowledge and applies it to the workings of a summer camp. Riordan creates an easy pathway to relate the ancient mythology in his novel to modern society through the mundane practice of