What the heck are they teaching them these days?

[oreouk]

Apparently the answer is lies. I mean, from a certain point of view a module on Greek myths is all imaginary, but that does not mean that you can make your myths up wholesale by mashing 3 other myths together

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[rinioth]

I'm surprised there wasn't melting wax wings in there somewhere

[were_gopher]

May I suggest smacking them over the head with a copy of Tanglewood Tales? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanglewood_Tales .

I think I may have a spare copy of the 1938 hardback with the Edmund Dulac illustrations.

[timill]

"It's all in Plato, all in Plato: Bless me, what do they teach them at these schools?"

Also: Apollo and Artemis are the twins; Athene is merely their half-sister.

[eoforyth]

I agree with you. It's an awful mishmash, and it's not as if there aren't enough interpretations of the myths out there to use.

Next time Catherine complains about her Classics homework on The Aeneid (probably tomorrow) I shall point this out to her.

[lil_shepherd]

Plainly either the question setter had fiction ambitions or the "What do they teach them at these schools?" complaint should be applied to the teacher.

Damn it, you get better Greek myth in Wonder Woman.