* Scottish five piece GHOSTS OF ELYSIUM (Progressive Metalcore) [http://www.MYSPACE.COM/GHOSTSOFELYSIUM]
* Elysium is referenced in progressive metal band[[Symphony X]]'s song ''The Odyssey'', which is largely based around the adventures of Odysseus.
* Elysium is referenced in progressive metal band[[Symphony X]]'s song ''The Odyssey'', which is largely based around the adventures of Odysseus.
* A song by the American rock band, [[Clutch (band)|Clutch]], in their song "Burning Beard," features the following lyrics: "The power of the Holy Ghost comes to town / Shadow of the New Praetorian / Tipping cows in fields Elysian / Saturnalia for all you have / The seven habits of the highly infected calf"
* A song by the American rock band, [[Clutch (band)|Clutch]], in their song "Burning Beard," features the following lyrics: "The power of the Holy Ghost comes to town / Shadow of the New Praetorian / Tipping cows in fields Elysian / Saturnalia for all you have / The seven habits of the highly infected calf"
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Elements of Greek mythology have appeared many times in popular culture.
Rick Riordan (Author of the Percy Jackson books) uses Antaeus in Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth; he describes him as fully red with wave patterns etched into his skin and teeth.
The Irish poet Seamus Heaney wrote two poems about Antaeus in his book 'North'
There are two comic book characters named after Antaeus, see Antaeus (comics)
The British prog-rock band Pure Reason Revolution have referenced Antaeus in the lyrics for their song 'Trembling Willows': "Songs of love & inflamed lips peristyle/Sold Antaeus darts!"
There is a new paraglider model, a high-end intermediate/performance glider name Antea by the Czech paragliding brand SKY. They tend to name gliders after characters of Greek mythology, like Brontes, one of the cyclopses
In chapter 57 of the Margaret Mitchell novel Gone With the Wind, Rhett says of Scarlett's relationship to Tara plantation (where she has gone to recover from a serious injury), "Sometimes I think she's like the giant Antaeus who became stronger each time he touched Mother Earth. It doesn't do for Scarlett to stay away too long from the patch of red mud she loves."
Antaeus was used by ADM Hyman G. Rickover as a metaphor for engineers who sometimes become isolated from the world around them. "... the Devil is in the details, but so is salvation."
The Antaeus Brotherhood is a fictional organization in the novel The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers in which they protect 17th century London from "Sorcerous treason" relying on a connection with the ground (wearing an iron chain fixed to their ankle and dragging behind) to negate magical attacks.
In Hercules and the Circle of Fire, Hercules and Deianeira encounter Antaeus during their journey. He is depicted as being made of rocks and tree bark. Like in the myth, the Earth rejuvenates him during his fight with Hercules. Deianeira realizes the truth, allowing Hercules to finally defeat him.
The Australian Broadcasting Commission featured Jason and the Argonauts in its children's radio broadcasting in Australia. "The Argonauts' Club" ran from 1933 until its closure on 2 April1972. Children listened to the afternoon radio program and interacted with the presenters, whose leader was "Jason", by sending in stories, poems, and art works, some of which were described on air. Their interaction helped them gain status within the organisation, such as the "The Order of the Dragon's Tooth" and the "Order of the Golden Fleece"; but members were only ever known by their Ship and number (Oar) in its crew. The format was devised initially by author Nina Murdoch. The longest serving presenter, and "Jason" throughout the show's run, was Atholl Fleming who died in May 1972.
In the Futurama episode "Jurassic Bark" Fry's faithful dog, Seymour, waits at the pizzeria Fry worked at before being frozen for a thousand years. A montage scene elapses, to the tune of "I Will Wait For You" by The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, wherein Seymour, never wavering, waits for many years through rain, snow and seasons for his master to return. The Seymour's story, and much of Fry's journey, mirror the story of Odysseus and his faithful dog.
In the director's cut of the Hollywood adaptation Troy, during Odyssues' introduction, he speaks of missing his dog while away at war. Though the dog's name is never mentioned, it can be assumed the dog was, in fact, Argos.
Centaurs have appeared in many places in modern fiction, and may be regarded as a fantasy trope. In modern literature differing views of centaurs vary with the author.
In R.A. Salvatore's "The DemonWars Saga" series, there is a Centaur featured named "Bradwarden" that plays the bagpipes and is one of the supporting characters throughout most of the series.
Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl series features Foaly, one of the heroes, and the most intelligent centaur on and under the Earth.
In J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series centaurs are aggressive creatures that live in the Forbidden Forest. The centaurs tend to be violent if people intrude on their territory. They study the stars and planets, and can also sometimes see the future - although they may speak in very indirect and ambiguous terms about it.
In C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, centaurs are noble, loyal, and brave. Oreius (Aslan's general) and his tribe of centaurs help Aslan's army fight against the White Witch, in "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe," but they gain a more prominent role in the second book, "Prince Caspian" where a centaur named Glenstorm (who also studies the stars and reads the future) is an important character.
In Monsterology: The Complete Book of Monstrous Creatures, centaurs are shown as being party animals, which raises the question of how they stayed concealed for so long, who live in Southern Greece, and have the Latin name Centaurus Indomitus. A picture shows one with two chests.
In Star Wars there are two centauroid races, the very centaur-like species called Chironians, most likely a play on the name of the legendary centaur, Chiron, and the striped hermaphroditeBerrites, which are very clumsy, but sneaky.
The American poet May Swenson wrote a poem called "The Centaur", which appeared in her book A Cage of Spines in 1958, and which portrays a girl riding a make-believe horse (actually a willow branch) who comes to feel that she is the horse.
Another book series called Animorphs includes a centauroid race of aliens called Andalites.
Film
Centaurs, among many other fantastic creatures, played a key role in one of the animated shorts from The Walt Disney Company's Fantasia (The Pastoral Symphony). Among them were the typical white, bay, and chestnut centaurs, along with various unnatural colors, and also a pair of "Nubian" centaurs which were dark-skinned and Zebra.
Centaur Man is a Robot Master in Mega Man 6. He appears as a light-green robotic Centaur with the ability to freeze his enemies and teleport around the room.
Centaurs frequently appear in the video game series Heroes of Might and Magic as soldiers of the forests.
In Dan Simmons' science-fiction novel Olympos, both Odysseus and Circe appear as themselves in a plot line of narrative fiction that draws upon The Odyssey.
In the second book of the epic poem The Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser based Sir Guyon's antagonist Acrasia on Circe, both being witches who change the form of their victims into lower animals such as swine.
The Victorian poet Augusta Webster (1837-1894) wrote a blank verse dramatic monologue titled "Circe" (1870), in which the sorceress anticipates her meeting with Ulysses and his men. She insists that she does not turn men into pigs—she merely takes away the disguise that makes them seem human.
In James Joyce's Ulysses, the fifteenth chapter, known as the "Circe" episode, offers as Circe's equivalent the brothel madam, Bella Cohen.
In Ernest Hemingway's early novel The Sun Also Rises, Robert Cohn refers to the Lady Ashley as Circe, saying she "turns men into swine."
In John Myers Myers's 1949 novel Silverlock, Circe turns the main character into a pig due to his proclivity for food and fornication.
In 2000, British poet Carol Ann Duffy wrote a poem entitled Circe.
Circe appeared in the cartoon Ulysses 31 where she attempted to build a tower that would house all the knowledge of the universe, thus making her more powerful than the gods.
In Rick Riordan's novel The Sea of Monsters Circe turns Percy Jackson into a guinea pig (she says that they are "much more convenient" than real pigs), and his friend Annabeth Chase uses magical multivitamins (the equivalent of moly) to restore Percy to his true form.
A variation of the theme of Odysseus and Circe is also to be found in Philip K. Dick's short story "Beyond Lies the Wub", with the protagonist explicitly referring to the Odysseus myth.
The 2003 Radio Tales drama "Homer's Odyssey: Voyage to the Underworld" is a dramatic retelling of the portion of Homer's epic poem featuring Circe, followed by the voyage to Hades to consult with the prophet Teiresias.
In the fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire Cersei, one of the main characters, appears to have much in common with Circe.
In Nirvana's In Utero liner notes, Kurt Cobain lists the people he thanks, including 'the goddess Demeter'. On the back of the album there are some symbols related to Demeter.
In Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, the sailing ship Demeter is taken over and its crew killed by the Count before running aground on the English coast.
Demeter appeared in the 1997 Disney movie, Hercules and the animated series based on it, as one of the gods upon Mount Olympus.
Demeter (together with Dionysus) was used as an archetype for the character Tori by contemporary artist Tori Amos in her 2007 album American Doll Posse. Amos created five personalities for the album, each representing a different Greek god or goddess.
In the computer game Zeus: Master of Olympus, Demeter is one of the gods to whom the player can build a temple. The completion of the sanctuary to Demeter provides the city with arable farmland suitable for raising crops or livestock; the goddess provides blessings and sanctification of buildings associated with produce, and can be appealed to for a supply of food.
In the Konami game for the MSX computer The Maze of Galious, Demeter is one of the gods the player can visit to buy artifacts which gives extra powers.
She is a character in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. Here she constantly reprimands Persephone for being foolish enough to eat the fruit of the underworld. She seems to care a lot about cereal and agriculture.
Scottish five piece GHOSTS OF ELYSIUM (Progressive Metalcore) [1]
Elysium is referenced in progressive metal bandSymphony X's song The Odyssey, which is largely based around the adventures of Odysseus.
A song by the American rock band, Clutch, in their song "Burning Beard," features the following lyrics: "The power of the Holy Ghost comes to town / Shadow of the New Praetorian / Tipping cows in fields Elysian / Saturnalia for all you have / The seven habits of the highly infected calf"
A song by the British Hip-Hop group Rhyme Asylum titled 'Iller Instinct' contains the lyric
"I hope this beat's flame resistant, when I come off the top I've lost the plot like books with pages missing. I won't break tradition, I'm keeping it real, plant seeds of destruction in the Elysium fields."
A song by former Glasgow metal band Lithium
"Elysian Fields" is the title of a song by the metal band Megadeth from their album Youthanasia. It is about souls sentenced to eternal damnation fighting to storm heaven.
The song "Reeses Pieces, I Don't Know Who John Cleese Is?" by I Set My Friends On Fire has a lyric:"Those Elysian smiles I thought I'd keep forever!"
Mary Chapin Carpenter's album 'Between Here and Gone' contains the song 'Elysium', where, following a long personal journey, paradise is found in the heart of her soulmate.
Elizium is the title of an album by Fields of the Nephilim. The album contains track-titles such as '(Paradise Regained)' and lyrics including "over to the window, where the night has become Elizium for the sleepless souls" and references to "some kind of Heaven" (from 'At the Gates of Silent Memory'); whilst an overall theme of voyages towards a blissful afterlife/otherworld dominates the entire album.
Elysium is the title of a dance and happy hardcore music track by Scott Brown (DJ). The chorus line lyrics have potential links to interpersonal, spiritual, and higher-order concepts or ideologies.
The track, Elysium, by Scott Brown has remixed by Trance/House group Ultrabeat with additional lyrics and the BPM reduced. That version has then been remixed back into happy hardcore by Scott Brown.
"Devoured Elysium" is a song by Vital Remains from their album Dechristianize, released in 2003.
Portishead has a song entitled Elysium on their 1997 self-titled album.
Wings Of Severance has a song called Elysium on their self-titled album.
The Velvet Teen's second full-length album was entitled Elysium.
In the movie Gladiator, "Elysium" is the name of the song played during Maximus's death. The film shows the character walking through fields of crops. It is ambiguous whether this is supposed to be Elysium or his family farm, it is likely that it represents both.
The video to the song "It Means Nothing" by the Stereophonics shows the spirits of the dead in white robes walking through fields of crops to be taken away in hot air balloons
A song titled "Elysium" appears on the album Wonderful by British 90's band Madness
A song titled "Elysium" appears on Phoenix, Az rock band Vayden's album - "Children of Our Mistakes"
A death-metal Band from Germany called "Elysium"[1]
A punk-metal band from Tampa, FL is called Elysium[2]
A rock band from Newton, IA is called Elysium.
The line "As the sands slowly turn to Elysian Fields" is featured in the song "Sahara" by Finnish metal band Nightwish
The line "and cross the river of styx, you will reach elysian fields" is featured in the song "Into the light" by the Hardcore metal band John Doe.
The Alaskan metal/post-hardcore band 36 Crazyfists has a song entitled "Elysium" featuring Killswitch Engage singer Howard Jones on their 'Rest Inside the Flames' album.
The phrase "Why is it called Elysian Fields when love builds only grief" is featured in the song "The Seer", by Finnish soprano Tarja Turunen, in the album My Winter Storm.
Polish black metal band Behemoth mentions an Elysium in their song "Conquer All" in the line "Mightiest self! Cast out ov thy Elysium with blood ov nazarene." And in the song "as above so below" they reference it in the line "art thou nephilim child are you looking for thy elysium here."
A metalcore band called Elysion Fields is from Antioch, Illinois(myspace.com/elysionfieldsband)
Swedish melodic death metal Arch Enemy's song "Dead Bury Their Dead" off of the first CD of Wages of Sin, contains the line ... "..I walk through Elysian Fields... the light is shining.. on me!"
A sideband of Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart called "the Lovemongers" recorded a song called "Elysian"
Charlotte Church's song "Dream a Dream" from her album of the same name contains the line "We will see... Elysium".
A progressive power metal band Into Eternity's song titled "Elysium Dream".
A song by singer/songwriter, Davis Howley, entitled "Our Elysium".
Bristol metalcore band Evita have a song titled "The Elysium Fields"
The Branford Marsalis Quartet 1999 album, Requiem, has a song titled "Elysium". The album is the last recording made by the quartet's pianist Kenny Kirkland. Marsalis writes, "This record represents first takes of most of the songs and, unfinished as it is, it is a documentation of what, for me, was one of the most challenging and enduring musical relationships I have ever experienced." Presumably, the title is intended to speak of Kirkland's afterlife experience.
A Progressive Death-Thrash band from Philadelphia, PA is called "Slaughter of Elysium"
Television
In Doctor Who, Davros, creator of the Daleks, was said to have been lost at the Gates of Elysium during the first year of the Time War, when his command ship was swallowed by the Nightmare Child.
In the fourth season of the anime Sailor Moon, the guardian of dreams, Helios, resides in Elysion. In the manga version of that plotline, Elysion is equally important to the arc.
In the third and fifth seasons of the anime Digimon, Dukemon has an attack called "Final Elysium", where he fires a red beam from his Shield.
In the Hades arc of both the anime and manga of Saint Seiya, the bronze saints infiltrate Elysion to rescue Athena from Hades.
In the fifth season episode "Lineage" of the television show "Angel" Wesley Wyndam-Pryce uses the word Elysium as a password to enter his high secure vaults within his office.
In the final episode of the British sitcom Green Wing, Martin hears that Mac will be going to "Elyssian Fields", which he thinks is a place in Dorset. He later learns that it actually means that he is going to die.
In the anime series Spawn (season 3, episode 2), the Elysium Fields were mentioned by the bounty hunter Jade, asking Spawn to kill her so she would die in battle and have peace in the Fields instead of going to Hell for sparing HellSpawn.
In the fourth season of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, it is shown that the Fields of Elysium are part of the Colonial religion's teachings about the afterlife. Colonial religion is heavily influenced by real-world Greek mythology.
In the episode "Last Call" of the television show Dead Like Me, the reaper Mason is sent to "Elysian Lake" to reap a man. The man dies after being struck by lightning while swimming in the lake.
Films
In Gladiator (2000 film) Maximus: "Three weeks from now, I will be harvesting my crops. Imagine where you will be, and it will be so. Hold the line! Stay with me! If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you're already dead!"[3]
Phantom of the Opera (2004 film), In the opening scene of "The Masqurade" Andre sings the line "Of Elysian Peace." in reference to the Phantoms 6 month absence.
In Mister Roberts (1955 film), the ship The USS Reluctant, was sent to the "Limbo Islands", specifically to Elysium Island for liberty. The capitol of the island is "Elysium City". Elysium is the largest of the Limbo Islands. It is often referred to as the Polynesian paradise. Vanilla, sugar, cocoa, coffee, phosphates and rum are the chief exports. [4]
In The Man from Elysian Fields (2001 film), [2]Mick Jagger plays a high priced male escort
Games
In Anarchy Online, part of the Shadowlands dimension, introduced with the Shadowlands expansion pack, is known as Elysium.
In earlier editions of the Dungeons & Dragons role playing game, Elysium is the outer (spiritual) plane of absolute and purist good alignment - also referred to as Neutral Good - without any partisan regard towards law (as with the Seven Heavens) or chaos (as with Olympus/Arvandor/Arborea).
In Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Elysia is a stormy planet in Galactic Federation space. Its only known settlement is Skytown, a flying mechanical observatory that was built by the Chozo.
In RuneScape, the powerful and rare Elysian spirit shield is probably a reference to the Elysium.
In God of War, the term Elysian Fields is used repeatedly and is even visited by Kratos when he goes to fight for the gods.
In the Halo universe the Master Chief, also known as Spartan-117 or John, is born and raised to the age of six in Elysium City on an outer colony world belonging to the UNSC.
In Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2, a medical ward for PGS patients is called Elysium.
In the tabletop wargame, Warhammer 40k, the Elysians are referred to as Imperial Guardsmen specializing in a futuristic form of paratrooping using drop chutes. Forge World produces miniatures representing the Elysian Drop Troops.
In the Mass Effect game and novels, Elysium is a human colony where Jon Grissom, the Alliance's posterboy and first human to travel through a Mass Relay, calls home. It is also the home of the Ascension Project.
In Vampire the Masquerade (the RPG pen-and-paper game, the video game Bloodlines, and the board game Vampire: prince of the city), an Elysium is a place designated as neutral territory for vampires (i.e. a theater, nightclub, gallery etc.), where violence is forbidden. The keeper of the Elysium holds jurisdiction, preventing violence, organizing or cancelling events etc.
In the Game Rise of the Argonauts in a re-telling of the Classic "Jason and the Golden Fleece" in RPG form, Elysium is where the virtuous are sent and Jason must obtain the fleece to bring his Wife back from the Dead.
In the Last Remnant four dead souls of the Qsiti are trapped by a Monster and mentions Elysium " That monster has kept us here for many years now we can finally move on to Elysium, thanks to you Rush"
In Mega Man Legends 2, Elysium (Heaven in the Japanese Version) is a smaller planet at the orbit of Terra, where the last human, known as The Master, lived for 300 years.
The expansion Titan Quest: Immortal Throne takes place in the Greek underworld, with one significant section taking place in Elysium itself. The player must defend Elysium from the enemy daemon army and is aided by several well known Greek heroes.
In the EA games SSX and SSX Tricky, there is a track called the Elysium Alps.
William Wordsworth, in the "Prospectus" (written between 1798 and 1800) to The Excursion (published 1814), composed the following lines:
"Not Chaos, not The darkest pit of lowest Erebus, Nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out By help of dreams—can breed such fear and awe As fall upon us often when we look Into our Minds, into the Mind of Man— My Haunt, and the main region of my song."[5][6]
Tisiphone appears and is a major character (and the others are mentioned) in David Weber's book Path of the Fury and its expanded version In Fury Born.
In George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, Gwendolen Harleth is haunted by the Furies because of her betrayal of Lydia Glasher.
In the fourth season of the TV show Charmed, Piper interferes with the Furies' business and becomes one herself. When a fury turns a witch it causes a portal of unexpressed rage to manifest itself, in this case, that of Piper's inner rage towards her sister Prue's death the previous season.
In the third and fourth seasons of the TV show Angel, Lorne calls upon the Transuding Furies for making Caritas and the Hyperion Hotel into demon violence-free zones with payment only Angel could pay.
In the computer game Freespace 2, the Erinyes class is a playable advanced assault fighter for the GTVA. It is considered one of the more advanced ships.
In Stephen King's novel Rose Madder, Erinyes is the name of the blind bull which guards Rose Madder's baby at the heart of a labyrinth.
Trivium's (American Thrash Metal band) fourth studio album Shogun features a song named "He Who Spawned the Furies" which lyrically deals with the tale of Cronos castrating his father and then eating his children.
Roger Zelazny wrote a novelette entitled The Furies. In the tale the furies were three humans of unnatural power that set about to restore balance in the universe. It was published in his book Four For Tomorrow in 1967.
Helene Cixous wrote the play: 'La Ville parjure ou le réveil des Erinyes' which was performed by Theatre du Soleil (director - Ariane Mnoushkine) in 1994/5.
In Battlezone, there are many references to Greek mythology; it is said that Greek mythology was, in fact, heavily influenced by the Cthonians, a race who created biometal, a material with a consciousness. The Cthonians eventually separated into two factions, the Olympian Council and the Hadeans who contested with each other over control of the Solar System. The Hadean scientists harvested the bodies of fallen Greek warriors and used their DNA to imbue biometal with an "agression factor", resulting in the creation of the Furies, nigh-unstoppable craft with a mind of their own. The Furies revelled in causing death and destruction and was the ultimate cause of the destruction of the Cthonian civilisation and their home planet of Icarus, located between Mars and Jupiter. When the CCA attempted to resurrect the project to use it against the NSDF more than 200 years later, the result was the same: the Soviet Furies were completely uncontrollable and it took the effort of both sides to subdue them on Titan and Achilles, a previously unknown moon of Uranus. The NSDF attempted a different approach, fusing humans with biometal; this project failed too, because the American Furies retained their human minds and free will, resulting in their escape.
In anime, The manga "the furies" tells the stories of three Greek Furies. The story is filled with references to the myths of Orestes, the transformations of the furies, Heracles, and the roles played by the furies in Greek myths. Several websites feature the furies manga including the furies fan club[8][9]
In Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, the swineherd Gurth is referred to as "this second Eumaeus" after he and the jester discuss the unjust confiscation of livestock meat by Norman barons.
In the Disney 1997 film Hercules, Hades appears as the primary antagonist. Unlike the mythological Hades, this version is a fast-talking, evil deity; a combination of Satan and a dodgy car salesman. The character was voiced by James Woods.
In Saint Seiya, Hades serves as the primary antagonist in the last story arc of the series. Hades appears as the ruler of the Underworld (冥界, Meikai) and old enemy of Athena. He wishes to wipe out humanity, turning the Earth into a desolate wasteland. He despises the human beings, who are each time more ungrateful towards the gods.
Briareos is the name one of the protagonists of the Appleseed manga series and its several film adaptations. Most of the characters in the series are named for entities from Greek mythology; in Briareos' case it is in reference to his strength and command of the Hecatonchires system of his cybernetic body, potentially allowing him to control a large number of external devices as readily as if they were extensions of his own body. However, this ability is barely explored within the series.
Briareos plays a part in the children's novel The Battle of the Labyrinth, where his name is spelled Briares.
In the 2007 game Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation, five enemy super-weapons are named after the Hecatonchires. One was called the P-1112 'Aigaion' Heavy Command Cruiser/Aerial Aircraft Carrier, two were called the P-1113 'Kottos' Electronic Warfare Platform and the last two were called the P-1114 'Gyges' Fire Support System.
The Hecatonchires appear as the first Titan boss in the 2002 video game Rygar: The Legendary Adventure, as an entity that uses a large statue of two male figures and a rearing stallion as an exoskeleton to dwell within. The monster is also present in the Wii remake, Rygar: The Battle of Argus, where it is renamed "Hekatonkeil".
The Hecatonchires also appear as a mythological unit playable by the Atlantean civilizations in the 2003 video game Age of Mythology: The Titans, where they are known as the Hekagigantes.
Hecatencheires appears in the roleplaying game Dungeons and Dragons as an incredibly powerful enemy capable of attacking with one-hundred long sword strikes in a single round.
The novel Jason (1961) by Henry Treece is narrated by Jason himself. The supernatural elements are largely removed, but a major theme of the book is the clash between the older religion of the mother goddess, favoured by women (who are portrayed as dangerous and hostile to men in many ways) and the newer religion of Zeus and Poseidon favoured by men.
Film
Two movies titled Jason and the Argonauts have been produced: Jason and the Argonauts (1963), directed by Don Chaffey, and Jason and the Argonauts (2000), a Hallmark presentation TV movie.
A 1958 spaghetti production of Hercules starring Steve Reeves, featured Jason and the Argonauts, as well as Ulysses.
In the children's show, Class of the Titans, one of the main characters, Jay, is a descendant of Jason, and the characters have run-ins with Medea and Talos.
Lars Von Trier's made for TV movie entitled Medea (1988) depicts Udo Kier as Jason after he has retrieved the Golden fleece.
The Michael Eisner-produced web show The All-for-nots is loosely based on the Argonautika, as an indie rock band whose name vaguely rhymes with `The Argonauts' tours America on their way to the golden fleece of rock stardom.
A documentary named "In Search of Myths and Heroes" by Michael Wood, third episode talks about Jason the Myth.
The 2008 TV series AGE OF THE GODS: JOURNEYS EDITION, did their 2nd episode, JASON, based on the myth of Jason, telling the parts about King Pelias, the Argonauts, the Isles of Lemnos, Phineus and the Harpies, the Symplegades, Medea, the Iron Bulls and Sown Men, the Golden Fleece, the Betrayal of Medea, and the Death of Jason.
Stage
Mary Zimmerman wrote and directed Argonautika, which premiered in 2006 with the Chicago Lookingglass Theatre Company. It tells the story of Jason and the Argonauts from Pelias' initial charge through Jason's betrayal of Medea.
Euripides wrote the play Medea, which is focused around the period which leads to Medea killing Jason's bride and their two children. This play has nine characters as well as a chorus role.
Jason is briefly featured in the video game God of War 2. He receives no dialogue, and is in fact dead upon meeting him. Kratos comes across a dying warrior that mourns over Jason, his leader. Kratos comes upon the creature Cerberus shortly after, who is eating Jason. Kratos kills Cerberus and retrieves from its insides the artifact Golden Fleece.
'Lamia' is one of the Witches in the movie adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel Stardust. In the novel she is not named, though called the "Witch Queen". In the movie, she is portrayed by Michelle Pfeiffer. It is also the name of a woman who takes people's heat in Gaiman's novel Neverwhere.
Lamias are also mentioned in Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series and the novels of Rob Thurman.
Lamia feature in the Tim Powers novel The Stress of Her Regard as chthonic vampires that both inspire and prey upon poets such as Keats, Byron, and Shelley.
On the Genesis concept album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, the hero Rael has an encounter with "three vermilion snakes of female face", related in the track The Lamia. At the end of the song the Lamia taste Rael's blood and then die.
Bleu, a character from the Breath of Fire series, is a Lamia.
Lamia is also mentioned in an Iron Maiden's song entitled "Prodigal Son", which is the 8th track of Iron Maiden's 2nd album, Killers.
In the manga Fairy Tail there is a guild named Lamia Scale with a crest of a Lamia. The guild is allied with Fairy Tail and another two guilds to defeat Oracion Seis.
The Lamia is mentioned in the Sam Raimi film Drag Me to Hell voiced by Art Kimbro. This version is depicted as an evil spirit summoned by a curse put on a personal item or memento. It takes three days for the Lamia (described as a fierce, two-legged creature with the head and hooves of a goat) to fully manifest: at first it appears as a malevolent spirit but on the fourth day it comes for the owner of the accursed object and drags him/her into Hell. The only ways to (possibly) stop the Lamia from taking the targeted person to hell in the movie continuity is: a) appease it with a blood offering by sacrificing a small animal, but this isn't always effective; b) summon the Lamia and place into a corporeal body (human, animal, etc), then kill what it inhabits; and c) give the cursed object to someone else (be they living or dead), and the Lamia will take him or her to Hell instead of the original owner. While stated within the film several times to be called the Lamia, the demon bears a much closer resemblance to the creature Baphomet.
The Lamia in the book series Night World are born vampires that can choose when they want to stop physically aging. They follow strict rules and live hidden, in the Night World, with the "made" vampires, witches, shape shifters, and werewolves.
The Lamia is also referred to in Joseph Delaney's "Wardstone Chronicles", featuring the Spooks Apprentice, Spooks Curse, Spooks Secret, Spooks Mistake, Spooks Battle & Spooks Sacrifice although the series as of yet is not complete. In the books the Lamia is a breed of witch from the Mediterranean, mostly Greece. The main character, Tom Ward's mother is a lamia witch, however, in the sixth book in the series it is revealed that she is in fact Lamia, the mother of all Lamia witches. They come in two forms, feral and domestic. Feral lamias are vicious and drink human blood, they can have wings and covered in scales with long sharp talons. The lamias become domestic by being around humans, which causes them to take the form of a beautiful human woman, only recognizable by a line of green and yellow scales down her spine.
Lamia was a demonic adversary in the television series Poltergeist: The Legacy, cast as a beautiful succubus-type spirit that preyed on men through their dreams. She was captured by the protagonist team in a specially engraved box after an incantation was cast and her name spoken.
In the Warhammer universe, Lahmia was one of the Nehekharan city-states. It was there the first vampires came to when the ruling class drank from the Elixir of Nagash.
Inside a dark cave, a woman with the lower body of a serpent wields her tail.The She-Demon In the series debut episode of "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" ("The Wrong Path"), a lamia is the main antagonist of a Greek village. Though called the "She-Demon", she has the upper body of an attractive human female (actress Nicky Mealings), and from the hips down a +30'-long pale-green tail. She was ordered by a goddess to sacrifice the first-born sons of the village for their not worshiping her. The She-Demon uses a long white skirt to hide her tail, thus luring in unawares men, but this makes her imobile as moving about would reveal her true identity as a monster. Then, when they were close enough, she would use the tip of her tail to "sting" them, which killed them instantly and changed their bodies into stone statues. In the episode, one of the villagers seeks out Hercules to kill the She-Demon, but the demi-god is in mourning from the recent loss of his family at the hands of his stepmother Hera. Later, after learning that his friend Iolaus had fought and died in his stead, Hercules goes to the She-Demon's cave and fights her- tricking her into accidentally stinging herself with her own tail. (She stung herself as she was attempting to retaliate for him humiliating her.) This turns her to stone, and returns all of her victims to life. She is portrayed as having both superior speed and strength in her tail, overpowering even Hercules' legendary strength.
H:TLJ was notable for being among the first generation of serialized television shows in the United States to semi-regularly merge CGI with live-action footage. This technique was used to render full-body shots of the She-Demon's tail and the transformation of her victims.
A "Medea complex" is sometimes used to describe parents who murder or otherwise harm their children.[10]
Born Susie Benjamin, Medea Benjamin, co-founder of both Code Pink and the international human rights organization Global Exchange, renamed herself after the Greek mythological character Medea during her freshman year at Tufts University.
In Stephen Sondheim's musical, "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," the opening number, "Comedy Tonight," contains the line, "Nothing that's grim; nothing that's Greek. She plays Medea later this week."
In the PS2 game Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3, Medea is the Persona for the character Chidori. Appropriate to the "Medea complex", Medea herself tries to strangle Chidori at one point in the game.
In the PS2 game Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King, Medea is the princess of a ruined kingdom, Trodain. She was put under a curse by a jester named Dhoulmagus and was transformed into a horse. She is a horse throughout most of the game.
In the book series Cry of the Icemark, book 2, The Blade of Fire, Medea tries to kill her brother and betray her country.
In James Owen's novel "The Search for the Red Dragon," Medea is a woman that lives on only as a reflection in a mirror. She spends most of her time in the novel talking to Peter Pan in a cave guarded by children dressed in animal furs.
In the Woody Allen Movie Annie Hall, the character played by him, Alvy Singer, is lamenting Annie moving to Hollywood. Leaving a theater in an impromtu conversation with an older lady he meets on the street, she asks him, "Don't tell me you're jealous?" Alvy replies, "Yeah. Jealous? A little bit. Like Medea."
In the 2006 movie Pan's Labyrinth, directed by Guillermo del Toro, the character of the Pale Man borrows much of its personality from the Lamia, including its predeliction for eating children and the ability to remove its own eyes.
In Hercules and Xena the Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus, Mnemosyne is re-imagined as the vicious Titaness of Fire. She also seems to be romantically involved with the Wind Titan.
In the Xena: Warrior Princess episode Forget Me Not (Season 3, Episode 14) the character of Gabrielle goes to the temple of Mnemosyne to try to forget her painful memories. (Throughout the episode it is mispronounced in a fashion that rhymes with limousine.)
In Hercules: the Legendary Journeys, Episode 91 Let there be Light, Hercules visits Mnemosyne in person. This depiction combines elements of the other two depictions in the metaseries. Here, Mnemosyne is depicted as the fiery daughter of Cronos and an enemy of Zeus. Though angry and hostile towards Zeus, and by extension Hercules, Hercules sought her out for her wisdom and counsel.
In Xanadu (film), Mnemosyne is the (unnamed) mother of the Nine Muses, including Kira, the heroine.
In the fifth arc of Sailor Moon (manga) Sailor Mnemosyne and Sailor Lethe are twins being forced to work for Shadow Galactica. When Sailor Lethe attacks Usagi in the River of Oblivion, Sailor Mnemosyne is the one who stops Sailor Lethe from killing her.
Mnemosyne is the name of a computer software project that helps people to memorize facts, such as school exams, as well as builds data on memory research.
In the MMPORG Asheron's Call, green triangular devices called Mnemosynes are used to store large amounts of knowledge/history and are used to pass this information across generations.
In the Oliver Stone, ABC Event Series "Wild Palms" Made for TV Mini Series about a Cyber Cult, "Mnemosyne" was a vision educing blue fluid.
A series of young adult novels by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast known as " House of Night" feature Nyx as the main goddess worshiped by vampyres and young fledgling vampyres at the eponymous school.
Nyx (as Nox) is an important, if enigmatic, character in Piers Anthony's novel, "And Eternity", the seventh book of his "Incarnations of Immortality" series. Seventeen years after the original completion of the series, Mr. Anthony has added an eighth book,"Under a Velvet Cloak" in which Nox is the central Incarnation of Immortality.
Nyx appears as a Demon in the popular Japanese Megami Tensei series of Role-playing games. In Persona 3, Nyx is the main antagonist and the harbinger of the apocalypse.
Perses appears in the upcoming video game God of War III, depicted as a massive brute made of rock and molten lava. He is seen in the demo and the trailers fighting Helios.
Recently, in the manga Medaka Box, the heroine Medaka entered a berzerk state nicknamed Perses Mode.
The Radio Tales drama "Homer's Odyssey: Tale of the Cyclops" is a dramatic retelling of the portion of Homer's epic poem featuring the cyclops Polyphemus.
Atlantic Horseshoe Crabs have the species name "polyphemus" in reference to their having eyes centered in the middle of their prosomas.
Symphonic Metal band Nightwish made a reference to the Cyclops in the song "Nemo" in the line "Nemo my name for evermore". The song refers to when the Cyclops asked Odysseus what his name was and Odysseus responded with “nemo” (roughly translated) to "nobody".
Thomas Wolfe's short story, "Polyphemus," centers around a one-eyed Spaniard who is blind to the true wealth around him as he searches the New World for gold.
In Jonathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels', Gulliver's first encounter with a Brobdignagian giant has allusions to the encounter between Odysseus and Polyphemus in Homer's 'Odyssey'.
In the BritishnovelHoward's End (1910), by E.M. Forster, Porphyrion is the name of a large insurance company based in London where one of the minor characters, Mr. Leonard Bast, works as a clerk. In this case, the classical allusion to the Greekgiant serves as an ironic comment on the un-heroic, impersonal work with which the modern (i.e. early twentieth century) business ethic dehumanizes individuals.
The fortunes of the Porphyrion company become a point of minor conflict in the novel as the main characters, Margaret and Helen Schlegel, influence Mr. Bast to quit his job, based on casual information that the company is about to collapse. This narrative thread plays into the larger themes of class consciousness, and cultural identity, which Forster examines with subtlety and wit.[citation needed]
Porphyrion also appears in the direct to video animated film,Hercules and Xena the Battle for Mount Olympus. Here he is the Earth Elemental Titan is the Titan's leader.[citation needed]
It is a river traveled upon by the Incarnation of War, named Mym, in the Piers Anthony novel Wielding a Red Sword. When Mym is lured into Hell, he decides to incite rebellion against the forces of Satan and uses four of the five major waterways of Hell, among which are the River Lethe, the Archeron, the River Kyoktys, and the River Styx.
In the 1980's adventure television series Airwolf, a U.S. Senator tells Dr. Charles Henry Moffett, "I'd like to shake your hand." Moffett replies, "You already have, Senator. On Project Proteus. "
In Anne Ursu's book The Siren Song, the second book in the Cronus Chronicles, the Greek Proteus, an ally of Poseidon, disguises as protagonist Charlotte's cousin Zee in order to keep the fact from her that he has kidnapped Zee himself. He is also the father of Charlotte's crush, Jason Hart, a mortal who does not appreciate his father's shape-shifting abilities. Once Charlotte finds this fact, she abandons Jason.
The term "Proteus" and "vombis" also were used in a James Blish short story about a race of alien beings who could change shape at will, but were not as malevolent as The Thing written about by John W. Campbell.
In the film Fantastic Voyage, Proteus is the apt name for the experimental submarine which is shrunk to sub-cellular size, and injected into a dying scientist to save his life.
In the animated TV series "Gargoyles", Proteus is the shape-shifting menace and arch-enemy of the city of New Olympus in the episode titled "The New Olympians."
Kurt Vonnegut's novel Player Piano revolves around the actions of Paul Proteus, a manager of a machine works in New York. Paul's life mirrors Proteus in that he must change his "shape" (character) to find his place in a machine-controlled society with which he is out of sympathy.
In the Film "Lost in Space", "Proteus" is the name of the space ship that is sent to look for the Robinson Family in an alternate time. The ship is subsequently destroyed.
In another Film, "Demon Seed", the evil supercomputer is named "Proteus IV"
In Craig Thomas' novel Sea Leopard, the British submarine is named HMS Proteus.
In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the Protean Charm is a complex spell used by Hermione Granger to enchant coins so that changing the serial number on one affected the others as well. She used it to communicate the times of secret meetings. It was also used by Voldemort to communicate with his Death Eaters.
In the DC Comics pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths Legion of Superheroes stories, the Proteans are a race of telepathic shapeshifters. Shapeshifting Legionnaire Chameleon Boy kept a Protean as a pet, whom he dubbed "Proty". After Proty sacrificed itself to save Saturn Girl and resurrect Lightning Lad, Chameleon Boy obtained a new Protean pet, "Proty II".
In Rick Wakeman's song "The Battle/The Journey" Proteus is described as a giant pre-historic man who herds mastadons in the center of the Earth (itself an image from Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth)
In Dean Koontz's "Phantoms" the character is referred to as being like Proteus by one of his victims.
In Charles Sheffield's science fiction novels titled "Proteus in the Underworld" and "Proteus Combined." Here Proteus refers to the process of using biofeedback equipment to change the shape of the characters' bodies.
James P. Hogan's novel The Proteus Operation. The term Proteus seems to relate to the ability to change time and reality, it that it is "flexible". He also uses it to refer to quantum mechanics wherein it seems as if something changes to avoid being caught (i.e.: the act of measuring something changes it).
In the Atraxa trilogy by Desmond Ravenstone, the Atraxa Defense Services use "proteon suits" which incorporate nanotechnology to sense the approach of a bullet or other high-speed projectile and change density so as to protect the wearer.
In Treasure Planet, the alien Morph, a pink blob who takes the form of everything he sees (much like a parrot repeats what it hears), is referenced to come from the fictional planet Proteus 1, a reference to his shapeshifting abilities.
In the children's TV series Thomas and Friends, Proteus is the name of a fictional locomotive told in and old legend.
In the popular video game Ace Combat 5, Proteus is the callsign of an ace pilot flying and FB-22 Strike Raptor.
"Proteus" as name
The German–American scientist Carl August Rudolph Steinmetz, who had several physical disabilities, changed his name to Charles Proteus Steinmetz. This name reflected his identification with a figure that could easily alter its outward form.
"Proteus" in gaming
Proteus was first used as the name of a roleplaying game published in 1992 by Bruce Gomes Industries and written by Bruce Gomes and Duncan Barrow. Non-standard races and an original world setting, using skill rolls under stats on 1d30. Currently out-of-print.
Proteus is also the name of a cross-genre roleplaying game. Proteus is a freely downloadable game available through Base113 Games. The game focuses on characters with incredible mental powers, Psionics. Proteus was a project to artificially create such people for military purposes. The name of the Greek god was chosen to reflect both the fact that these individuals are extremely adaptable and that they are among the first of their kind. An expanded version, Proteus: Second Edition, is currently in the works.
The collectible card game Magic: The Gathering references Proteus in the card Proteus Machine from the Scourge expansion that is able to change its creature type to any type when it is morphed. Recently in the Dissension expansion, the creature Protean Hulk allows its controller to replace it with other creatures when it dies.
Proteus is the name of an expansion for the collectible card game Netrunner.
Proteus is also the name of a key document in the computer game Freelancer.
In the Paragons setting for role-playing game Mutants and Masterminds Proteus is a silvery shapeshifting paranormal. He is a paranormal supremacist with uncertain origins - everything from regular paranormal to shapeshifting alien to artificial construct made of nanomachines has been proposed.
In the game F.E.A.R., 'Proteus' is the name for a text file concerning the Icarus and Perseus Projects.
In the game Culdcept Saga, a 'Protean Ring' tool will transform the user's creature into another random creature for the duration of the battle.
In the Apocrypha release of EVE Online, the Gallente Strategic Cruiser is named the 'Proteus' Class. Strategic Cruisers allow players to change the shape of the ship depending on the subsystems incorporated into its fitting.
By Shooting down the FB-22 ace Proteus on mission 18 of Ace Combat 5, you unlock the aforementioned aircraft's SP colours.
In Will Harvey's video game The Immortal, wearing the Protean Ring allows you to change into a different creature, which helps solve a puzzle.
In Prison Break, after Michael Scofield has broken out of Sona prison, he tracks down The Company's little Black Book known as Scylla, because it is in 6 parts.
Music
The Police referenced Scylla and Charybdis in their 1983 hit single "Wrapped Around Your Finger" from Synchronicity. Track 2 on the 2008 album Shogun by Metal band Trivium is entitled "Torn Between Scylla and Charybdis". Also, there is a Massachusetts band called Of Blessings and Burdens who had a song called "Between Scylla and Charybdis". Part 6 of the metal band Symphony X's song "The Odyssey"on the album "The Odyssey" is entitled "Scylla And Charybdis". Azita has a song "Scylla and Charybdis" which is on her album "How Will You?".
Radio
The Radio Tales drama "Homer's Odyssey: The Voyage Home" adapts the portion of Homer's epic poem featuring Charybdis and Scylla.
Video Games
In the Nintendo DSrole-playing gameSonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, two sectors of space that the player travels to are named Sector Scylla and Sector Charybdis. Later, the player can fight two powerful robots named Scylla and Charyb (short for Charybdis) Also in Breath of Fire 3, the player faces off against Two fiery serpents named Scylla, and Charybdis.
The 1999 Japanese game Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere by Namco, features a level called 'Scylla and Charybdis', where the player is needed to choose between downing two different friendly aircraft (that is, betraying one of them), where downing one or the another will lead you to a different branch in the game story path.
In a young adult series, Daughters of the Moon, the daughters worshipped Selene. Selene gave them their powers and their reason for fighting the Atrox.
"Selena" ranked 815th and "Selene" 2555th in a common US-based listing of Most Popular Female First Names. [11]
Selene is a Marvel comic book villainess most often an antagonist of the X-Men and the Hellfire Club.
Selena was the leader of the Moon Fae in Anne Bishop's Tir Alainn series. Her second form was a shadow hound.
Selene was an evil sorceress in books 1-6 and 14 of the 'Wicca' Series by Cate Tiernan.
Selene is an alias for Lanfear in the popular fantasy series Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan. Lanfear's sigil is a number of stars and a crescent moon, and she is pale of skin with black hair and always wears silver and white. She is one of the strongest of the thirteen Forsaken and is in love with the reincarnation of Lews Therin Telamon, who was her lover in the Age of Legends.
Selene is the name of a planet in the PlayStation game Colony Wars. It is located in the Draco system, which also contains the star Helios. The planet is briefly referred to in the cutscene entitled "Time To Strike".
Selene is the name of the fictional protagonist from Underworld and Underworld: Evolution action films.
Tartarus is again used in the game Rise of the Argonauts. It is used as the place Jason must travel to get back the Golden fleece.
The tartarus is a land dreadnaught used in the video game Tales of the Abyss and is used to stop the vibration in the planets core.
Tartarus is used in the 1995-1996 FOX Military-Science Ficition TV series, Space: Above and Beyond in the seventh episode: "Enemy" (aired November 7, 1995) has a world that the United Earth Forces and the Chigs battle over in hellish conditions.
In the science fiction novel "Titan" by Stephen Baxter, in which a final manned space mission sent out by NASA landing on Saturn's moon of Titan, the crew of the mission names their landing site on Titan "Tartarus Base".
The video game God of War 2 portrays a portion of the war between the Gods and the Titans. Zeus is heard to proclaim "I banish you to the farthest depths of Tartarus". Interestingly, as the cut scene ends, the Titan Atlas says that Zeus had banished him to Hades.
Several episodes of the superherocartoonJustice League, in particular "Paradise Lost" and "The Balance", reference or are set in a rendition of Tartarus. A portal to the realm exists on Themyscira, Wonder Woman's home.
Tethys is a character in Greenwitch, in Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising series. She appears also in the animated film Hercules and Xena: The Battle for Mount Olympus and is the most human looking of the Titans, appearing as a water elemental giantess with long hair. But this version of her is utterly ferocious and ruthless, at one point picking up Aphrodite and attempting to crush her.
Theia tried to take over the world in the pages of The New Teen Titans. In volume 2, issue 9, she was destroyed by her husband Hyperion's self-immolation.
The DC Comics character Wonder Woman is one of a nation of Amazons originating from a magically-hidden island called Themyscira, originally called "Paradise Island" from Wonder Woman's first appearance in All Star Comics #8 (December 1941) until the character's February 1987 relaunch in Wonder Woman (vol. 2) #1.
