Reinforcement and Review

Benefits of Technological vs. Traditional Presentation

The Internet offers instant access to a wide array of materials that can be used for review and reinforcement of knowledge of Ancient Greek and Roman mythology. One drawback is the ephemeral quality of World Wide Web sites. Videos, which bring ancient dramas to life, help students to remember plots and characters.

Language Resource Center Usage

Since frequent reinforcement and review aid memory, a session or part of a session in the language resource center could be devoted to working with new materials on subjects already covered in class. Some World Wide Web sites are dedicated to various areas of mythology:

Specific Characters

• Hercules
• Apollo (on mythology link)

Specific Topics

• Goddesses and Myths‹Greece
• Myth of the Month
• Roman Mythology
• The Mythology of the Constellations (see Module 7)
• Dictionaries of Ancient Greek and/or Roman Mythology (sometimes combined with materials from other mythologies) Encyclopedia Mythica

Assistance Available

• Myth Man's Homework Help Center (elementary but fun to visit)
• SOYOUWANNALEARNTHEBASICSOFGREEKMYTHOLOGY?

Games

• Most Popular Games in Humanities (includes several mythology games)

  For example, the quizzes "Medicine and Mythology" and "Noble Steeds" are on the link called Humanities: Mythology and Legends.

Comprehensive Websites

• Bulfinch's Mythology
• The Perseus Digital Library (contains full texts of Ancient Greek and Roman literary works in translation [and in the original languages]) http://www.perseus.tufts.edu

  Note: One frustrating characteristic of websites is that they instantaneously disappear or cannot be displayed. For example, the excellent classics search engine Argos (www. Argos.evansville.edu) is at times unavailable.

Searching the World Wide Web

• Simply typing the keywords "mythology ancient Greek" into the search box of a search engine such as Google will bring up numerous references to interesting sites that will reinforce and review material learned.

CD-ROMs

• There are some software that contain material on Ancient Greek and Roman mythology for example, "Romana," which is available from http://www.centaursystems.com

Videos

• Videos of dramas (see Module 3) and operas (see Module 6) that are in the school's video collection may be used for reinforcement and review.

Note: The above links will open in a separate browser window