Wednesday, November 4, 2009

google: digital mythology

I search "digital mythology," and came across the site http://www.paulsquire.com/mythology/mythology1.html. Paul Squire, the artist of the site, uses Photoshop, a wacom tablet and a mac as the main tools of creation to "twist and stretch new worlds into being, re-imagining classical myths and esoteric themes, which some have labelled 'The New Grotesque'" The specific images that I found are labeled after Greek and Roman gods, as well as a few other myths, such as Arachne and the battle of the Titans. While I love these pictures, the only qualm I have is the one on Apollo. Apollo was the twin brother to Artemis, son of Leto. As 'the most Greek of the Gods,' his symbols were the lute and the bow. It was even through the intervention of Apollo that Paris was was able to kill Achilles in The Iliad. The problem I have with the picture is that Apollo is standing over the sun. A popular misconception is that Apollo was the/a sun god. From a strictly mythological background, from the original texts, Apollo had nothing to do with the sun. The sun god was Helios in Greece, and Sol in Rome.

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