The Stories, the Myths, the Folklore

For my storybook, I plan to modernize Greek Mythological stories like the Trojan War, etc. I want to use OU students/athletes to portray the Gods and Goddesses in the stories. I plan to link the stories around the well-known mythological tales, but I was not planning on overlapping all of them completely. The stories will be connected through characters; for example, Helen was a big part of the Trojan War, so she might be in another story later, but not one involving the Trojan War specifically. I hope to create this storybook so that readers can understand what I am referring to (Greek Mythology) and they can also laugh about the portrayed characters. I plan on using wikipedia sources and other websites that have mythology stories. I want to do a big story about the Trojan War and then a sub story of Achilles' part in the battle. I also want to include other, smaller stories that are Greek Mythology related that use other known Gods and Goddesses. Some story sources include t...

The story of the Trojan War is a major story in Greek mythology and would be a main event in my story book. The idea is take that war and turn it into a scene using OU students--specifically cheerleaders and football players or athletes from other sports. The goddesses: Athena, Aphrodite, Helen, and Hera would be cheerleaders or pom girls and the Gods or warriors would be football, basketball, or other male athletes from OU (or Texas... being the rival). The gist of the story is that Paris of Troy (or Texas) took Helen from Menelaus, from Greece (or Norman). The war began because of a competition between three goddesses all wanting the golden apple reward naming one of them "the fairest of them all." Trojan Horse from Wikimedia The death of Achilles at the end of the Trojan War would be a great story to tell because he was a major hero in the war and he only had one way that he could die (by his achilles). Achilles, in my storybook, would be played by a well known m...

In the third grade, I did this video project about the Greek Gods and Goddesses and I really enjoyed putting it together. I invested a lot of my interest in the topic into the project itself. I want to use stories about the Greek Gods and Goddesses when creating my story book. On one of my earlier blog posts, a comment was made about substituting football players for Gods and cheerleaders for Goddesses and I think that is a great idea. That idea would modernize the stories. There are many stories I would like to use, but Aphrodite and the Trojan War is one them. I know that Aphrodite is the Goddess of Love and Beauty and I know that the Trojan War was a very significant event in Greek Mythology. I want to retell the story in a way that all OU students will enjoy because it uses "icons" of the university as the characters.     Aphrodite , the Greek Goddess of Love and  Beauty  Another storybook idea that I found interesting was rewriting the popular fa...