#greek-mythology

#greek-mythology

In Bushwick, Stanton - a kind of modern Michelangelo, or at least a painter who specializes in realistic, imaginative murals - painted a pair of murals, "Ariadne and the Flowers" and "Flower Boy" on a 150-foot-long, 15-foot-tall wall. The work is so big, he said, that he used a drone to get good images. Located at 421 Troutman St., the piece was commissioned by Quebracho, a custom framing company surrounded by cafes, bars, clubs, restaurants and other nightlife.

Which version of a story we choose to tell, which characters we place in the foreground, which ones we allow to fade into the shadows: these reflect both the teller and the reader, as much as they show the characters of the myth. Considerations of culture and bias have been central to the recent wave of mythic retellings focused on women,

Chiron was not just any centaur; he was the son of Cronus and an Oceanid named Philyra, possessing the upper body of a man and the lower body of a horse.

Hadestown, the Tony-winning musical by Anais Mitchell, blends folk and jazz, weaving a dark tale of love between Orpheus and Eurydice, and Hades and Persephone.