Template talk:Greek mythology sidebar

Child pages:

Template:Greek myth (Titan)
Template:Greek myth (Olympian)
Template:Greek myth (Pan) - for matters rustic and ithyphallic
Template:Greek myth (nymph)
Template:Greek myth (Apollo) - Apolline stuff here
Template:Greek myth (Dionysus) - Dionysiac here
Template:Greek myth (sea) - everything aquatic
Template:Greek myth (earth) - everything chthonic
Template:Greek myth (abstract) - personified abstractions
Template:Greek myth (Hades) - underworld and occupants

Planned:

Template:Greek myth (Troy) - war etc.
Template:Greek myth (Oedipus) - incest and war
Template:Greek myth (Minotaur) - Theseus, Minos, etc.
Template:Greek myth (Argo) - Argonautica

I dunno about Heracles and Perseus. Maybe. Bacchiad 15:40, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Are these necessary considering how we have categories now? They seem like unnecessary clutter. Postdlf 23:10, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I think you're mostly right. It was practicable and (I think) helpful with Roman myth. It's clearly breaking down with Greek myth, where things are much more open-ended and complex. Where something like nymphs or the figures associated with a god are loosely defined and wide-ranging and potentially hierarchical, categories are much better.

So I'm mostly dissatisfied with the experiment. I decided not to press forward any more when I got to heroes and it became clear that even a Theseus/Minotaur box would be impossible to do well, let alone Trojan War.

The ones that I think might be worth keeping, in stripped-down form, are Template:Greek myth (Titan) and Template:Greek myth (Olympian) - maybe or maybe not (sea) and (Hades). The first two sets, at least, are small, heterogeneous and closely-interrelated enough where it could still work.

I'll continue to tinker. One way or another, the clutter will be alleviated. Bacchiad 00:10, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Image

I'd like to propose a change of image for the following reasons.

1. Image quality. There are many, many images to illustrate Greek mythology of superior technical quality.

2. Provenance. The image for Greek mythology should actually be from Greece, preferably created before the Roman Imperial era. Why use one from the 3rd century of the Christian era from Roman Spain? Cynwolfe (talk) 19:54, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a gallery of some images I think would be more characteristically Greek and are also of better quality. The first two are my finalists because they portray a scene with a male and female figure. I prefer the first because it depicts a more dynamic scene with the killing of the Minotaur, but it has some coloration issues. THe second one has Heracles in the skin of the Nemean lion, so also good. The rest are in no particular order (the lone Amazon would work well), and some would need cropping.