To browse Academia. For centuries, the ancient tradition, and classical mythology in particular, has been a common reference point for whole hosts of creators of culture, across many parts of the world, and with the new media and globalization only increasing its impact.
Thus, in our research at this stage, we have decided to study how the authors of literary and audiovisual texts for youth make use of the ancient myths to support their young protagonists and readers or viewers in crucial moments of their existence, on their road into adulthood, and in those dark hours when it seems that life is about to shatter and fade away.
However, if Hope is summoned in time, the crisis can be overcome and the protagonist grows stronger, with a powerful uplifting message for the public. Introductory chapter to the volume Katarzyna Marciniak, ed. They provide examples from literary and audio-visual culture for very young readers and more adult teenagers and youth, raising the issue of deep sadness utilizing storytelling and not in a didactic way.
Some of the protagonists struggling with the problem are far from lively characters in conventional interpretations of the myths including Hades, Hydra, or Medusa , so the texts play upon stereotypes entrenched in the culture. Marciniak K. In Classical Greek vase-painting, young individuals of both sexes play several skill and chance games at a prenuptial age, a risky time, especially for girls. The aim of the painters is not to represent a real game, allowing the reconstruction of rules.
Ludic activities transpose in a virtual world the critical phase of courtship and the hope for its successful result: marriage. Play and games create a metaphorical space where maidens display their agency over life uncertainties under the patronage of Eros and Aphrodite. What is the most peculiar identifying quality which marks out myth and separates mythology from fairytales or legends?
