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Roman conquerors of the Hellenic East allowed the incorporation of existing Greek mythological figures such as Zeus into their coinage in places like Phrygia, in order to "augment the fame" of the locality, while "creating a stronger civil identity" without "advertising" the imposition of Roman culture.{{cite book|last1= Katsari|first1= Constantina|last2= Lightfoot |first2= Christopher S|last3=Özme|first3=Adil|title=The Amorium Mint and the Coin Finds: Amorium Reports 4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TXa1FIWtcEQC&pg=PA38|access-date=18 May 2013|date=2013-01-30| publisher=Akademie Verlag|isbn=9783050058283|pages=38–}}

In the twenty-first century CE, the initial Greek 2-Euro coin featured the myth of Zeus and Europa and sought to connect the new Europe to the ancient culture of Greece.{{cite book|last= Morales|first= Helen|title= Classical Mythology: A Very Short Introduction|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=DJ338t9rP5EC&pg=PT27|access-date=24 December 2012|date=2007-08-23 |publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780192804761|pages=27–}} {{As of|2012|December}} the European Central Bank had plans to incorporate Greek mythological figures into the designs used on its bank notes.{{cite news|url= http://www.budapesttimes.hu/2012/12/06/cold-hard-cash-may-soon-be-dead-buried/|title= Cold, hard cash may soon be dead & buried|date= 6 December 2012 |newspaper= The Budapest Times|access-date=18 December 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130621085728/http://www.budapesttimes.hu/2012/12/06/cold-hard-cash-may-soon-be-dead-buried/|archive-date=21 June 2013}}

In 1795 the American colonial revolutionary Thomas Greenleaf titled his New York newspaper The Argus

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after the mythological watchman; Greenleaf adopted the slogan "We Guard the Rights of Man".{{cite book|first1= Alfred F.|last1= Young|first2= Gary B.|last2= Nash|first3= Ray|last3= Ray Raphael|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=QEzaLJ4u_MEC&q=government+%22Greek+myth%22+symbol&pg=PA366 |title= Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation|date= 2011|edition=First|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |location=New York, N.Y.|isbn=978-0307-27110-5}}{{qn|date=November 2021}}

The figure of Pegasus appears frequently on stamps, particularly on those used for air mail.{{cite book|title=The Classical World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C6QSAAAAIAAJ|year= 1952 |publisher= Classical Association of the Atlantic States.}} In 1906, Greece issued a series of stamps featuring stories from the life of Hercules.{{cite book|title=New England Stamp Monthly|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Rxk9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA35|year=1913|pages=35–}} Australia commemorated the laying of an underwater cable linking the Australian mainland to the island of Tasmania with a stamp featuring an image of Amphitrite.{{cite book|last=Boy Scouts of America |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=0ltDNLmCAcAC&pg=PA46|title=Boys' Life|date=July 1936|publisher= Boy Scouts of America, Inc.|pages=46–|access-date=21 December 2012}}

The United States military has drawn on Greek mythology to name equipment such as the Nike missile project.{{cite book|last=Berhow|first=Mark|title=US Strategic and Defensive Missile Systems 1950-2004|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=KEvkvpHrLboC&pg=PA18 |access-date= 20 April 2013|date=2012-09-18|publisher=Osprey Publishing|isbn=9781782004363|pages=18–}} The United States Navy has commissioned over a dozen ships named from Greek mythology. The ships include:{{cite book|last=Urwin|first=Gregory J. W.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_WsG39lnR9cC&pg=PA13|title= Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island|date=2002|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|isbn= 9780803295629 |pages= 13–|access-date= 16 December 2012}}{{cite book|last= Neeser|first= Robert Wilden|url= https://archive.org/details/ShipNamesOfTheUSNavy|title= Ship Names of the United States Navy: Their Meaning and Origin|publisher=Moffat, Yard and Company|year= 1921|pages=[https://archive.org/details/ShipNamesOfTheUSNavy/page/n18 16]–|access-date=16 December 2012}}

• USS Castor (AKS-1);
• USS Nereus (AC-10) and (1863);
• USS Arethusa (AO-7);
• USS Prometheus (1814) and (AR-3);
• USS Jason (1862), (AC-12);
• USS Galatea (1863) and (SP-714);
• USS Medusa (AR-1) and (1869);
• USS Triton (YT-10);
• USS Amphitrite (BM-2);
• USS Iris (1847), (1863), (1869), and (1885).

Greek mythology has provided names for a number of ships in the British navy. Such ships include:{{cite book|last1= Brown |first1= Anthony Gary|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=giUBcZjcFLEC&pg=PA28|title= The Patrick O'Brian Muster Book: Persons, Animals, Ships And Cannon in the Aubrey-Maturin Sea Novels |last2= White|first2= Colin|date= 2006|publisher= McFarland|isbn= 9780786424825 |pages= 28–|access-date= 16 December 2012}} (relates the fictional world of Patrick O'Brian to actual names - including those of ships - in the Royal Navy){{cite book|last1= Bishop|first1= Chris|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=PY8CvlKC7kgC&pg=PA48 |title=Aircraft Carriers: The World's Greatest Naval Vessels and Their Aircraft|last2= Chant|first2= Chris|date= 2004-10-15|publisher= Zenith Imprint |isbn= 9780760320051|pages= 48–|access-date=16 December 2012}}

• HMS Phaeton (1782)
• HMS Arethusa (1781)
• HMS Amphion (1798)
• HMS Alcmene (1794)
• HMS Argus (I49)

The Royal Australian Navy continued this tradition;See: HMAS Psyche.{{cite web|url=http://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-psyche|title=HMAS Psyche|website=Royal Australian Navy|access-date=16 December 2012}} it also has a training facility in Victoria called HMAS Cerebus.{{cite web|url=http://www.navy.gov.au/establishments/hmas-cerberus|title=HMAS Cerberus|publisher=Royal Australian Navy|access-date=20 December 2012}}

The Royal New Zealand Navy inherited Greek mythological names from the Royal Navy: it operated HMNZS Achilles and maintains the base HMNZS Philomel.

The Canadair CP-107 Argus of the Royal Canadian Air Force is named in honor both of the hundred-eyed Argus Panoptes (the "all seeing") and of Odysseus' dog Argus - the only one to identify Odysseus upon his return home.

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Governments and institutions worldwide make use of mythological abstractions such as Dike/Iustitia (Justice) in grand public buildings. Museums, libraries and art galleries may feature sculptures and images referencing classical Muses.

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The elements tantalum and niobium are always found together in nature, and have been named after the King Tantalus and his daughter Niobe.{{cite book|last=Emsley|first=John|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4BAg769RfKoC&pg=PA355|title=Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements|date=2011-08-25|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199605637|pages=355–|access-date=15 December 2012}}{{cite book|last=Quadbeck-Seeger|first=Hans-Jürgen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K5mxdcjILrcC&pg=PA51|title=World of the Elements|date=2008-01-08|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=9783527611584|pages=51–|access-date=15 December 2012}} The element promethium also draws its name from Greek mythology, as does titanium, which was named after the titans who in mythology were locked away far underground, which reflected the difficulty of extracting titanium from ore.{{cite book|last1=Leyens|first1=Christoph|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zq3xMa-IOvMC&pg=PA1|title=Titanium and Titanium Alloys|last2=Peters|first2=Manfred|date=2006-03-06|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=9783527605200|pages=1–|access-date=16 December 2012}}

Oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau named his research ship, a former British Royal Navy minesweeper, RV Calypso after the sea nymph Calypso.{{cite book|last=Olmstead|first=Kathleen|url=https://archive.org/details/jacquescousteaul0000olms|title=Jacques Cousteau: A Life Under the Sea|publisher=Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.|year=2008|isbn=9781402760587|pages=[https://archive.org/details/jacquescousteaul0000olms/page/56 56]–|access-date=19 March 2014|url-access=registration}} The ship later inspired the John Denver song "Calypso".{{cite book|last1=Kumar|first1=Satish|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rdxxTahYR1sC&pg=PA30|title=Visionaries: The 20th Century's 100 Most Important Inspirational Leaders|last2=Whitefield|first2=Freddie|publisher=Chelsea Green Publishing|year=2007|isbn=9781933392530|pages=30–|access-date=19 March 2014}}

The Trojan Horse, a seemingly benign gift that allowed entrance by a malicious force, gave its name to the computer hacking methodology called Trojans.{{cite book|last=Ec-Council|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5haBqCvH1mkC&pg=SA1-PA2|title=Threats and Defensive Mechanisms: Ec-council Press|date=2009-09-07|publisher=Cengage Learning|isbn=9781435483613|pages=1–|access-date=15 December 2012}}

The medical profession is symbolized by the snake-entwined staff of the god of medicine, Asclepius. Today's medical professionals hold a similarly honored position as did the healer-priests of Asclepius.{{cite book|last1=Ashley|first1=Benedict M.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dt5CZ4vMbNcC&pg=PA75|title=Ethics of Health Care: An Introductory Textbook|last2=O'Rourke|first2=Kevin D.|date=2002-08-01|publisher=Georgetown University Press|isbn=9780878403752|pages=75–|access-date=20 December 2012}}

The Gaia hypothesis proposes that organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a self-regulating, complex system that contributes to maintaining the conditions for life on the planet. The hypothesis was formulated by the scientist James Lovelock{{cite journal|last=Lovelock|first=J.E.|date=1 August 1972|title=Gaia as seen through the atmosphere|journal=Atmospheric Environment |publisher=Elsevier |volume=6 |issue=8 |pages=579–580 |bibcode=1972AtmEn...6..579L |doi=10.1016/0004-6981(72)90076-5 |issn=1352-2310}} and co-developed by the microbiologist Lynn Margulis{{Cite journal |last1=Lovelock |first1=J.E. |last2=Margulis |first2=L. |date=1974 |title=Atmospheric homeostasis by and for the biosphere: the gaia hypothesis |journal=Tellus A |volume=26 |issue=1–2 |pages=2–10 |doi=10.3402/tellusa.v26i1-2.9731 |doi-access=free |s2cid=129803613 |language=en |bibcode=1974Tell...26....2L }} and was named after Gaia, the mother of the Greek gods.{{cite book|last=Macauley|first=David|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=faat6l1kU88C&pg=PA91|title=Minding Nature: The Philosophers of Ecology|publisher=Guilford Press|year=1996|isbn=9781572300583|pages=91–|access-date=12 April 2013}}

Many celestial bodies have been named after elements of Greek mythology.

• The constellation of Scorpius represents the scorpion that attacked Hercules and the scorpions that frighted the horses when Phaëton was driving the sun-chariot.
• The constellation of Capricorn may represent Pan in a myth that tells of his escape from Typhon by jumping into the water while turning into an animal - the half in the water turned into a fish and the other half turned into a goat.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V2d12iZkgOwC&pg=PA1445|title=Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Encyclopedia: The Ultimate Desk Reference|date=2000-10-01|publisher=Merriam-Webster|isbn=9780877790174|pages=1445–|access-date=20 December 2012}}
• 1108 Demeter, a main-belt asteroid discovered by Karl Reinmuth on May 31, 1929, is named after the Greek goddess of fruitful soil and agriculture.{{cite book |last= Schmadel |first= Lutz D. |title= Dictionary of Minor Planet Names |publisher= Springer |year= 2003 |isbn= 3-540-00238-3 }}
• The U.S. Apollo Space Program to take astronauts to the moon, was named after Apollo, based on the god's ability as an archer to hit his target{{cite book|last=Byrnes|first=Mark E.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5g3KcPGBPiEC&pg=PA63|title=Politics and Space: Image Making by Nasa|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=1994|isbn=9780275949501|pages=63–|access-date=12 December 2012}} and being the god of light and knowledge.{{cite book|last1=Tichi|first1=Cecelia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sLNnd2Hno34C&pg=PA128|title=Embodiment of a Nation: Human Form in American Places|date=2004|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=9780674013612|pages=128–|access-date=12 December 2012}}
• The brand Goodyear has a foot with wings in their logo and that is the foot of Hermes{{Citation |title=Hermes |date=2023-02-19 |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hermes&oldid=1140369458 |work=Wikipedia |language=en |access-date=2023-02-21}} the Greek God of travels.

In psychoanalytic theory, the term "Oedipus complex", coined by Sigmund Freud, denotes the emotions and ideas that the mind keeps in the unconscious, via dynamic repression, that concentrate upon a child's desire to sexually possess his/her mother, and kill his/her father.Rycroft, Charles. 1995. A Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (2nd ed.). London.Childers, Joseph, and Gary Hentzi, eds. 1995. Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism. New York: Columbia University Press. In his later writings Freud postulated an equivalent Oedipus situation for infant girls, the sexual fixation being on the father. The term 'Electra complex' is sometimes used to describe this condition, although Freud himself did not do so.Freud S. An Outline of Psychoanalysis, pp. 193–194.

A "Medea complex" is sometimes used to describe parents who murder or otherwise harm their children.Lucire, Yolande. 1993. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20100205171752/http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary Medea: Perspectives on a Multicide]." Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences 25(2):74–82. Archived from the [https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=783875560798854;res=E-LIBRARY original] 2010-02-05. {{ISSN|0045-0618}}.

{{See also|List of films based on Greco-Roman mythology|Category:Television series based on classical mythology}}

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• The Battlestar Galactica franchise (particularly the 2004 television series) developed from concepts that utilized Greek mythology.{{cite book|last=Storm|first=Jo|title=Frak You!: The Ultimate Unauthorized Guide to Battlestar Galactica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SKNWjww7V88C&pg=PA67|access-date=15 December 2012|date=2007-10-01|publisher=ECW Press|isbn=9781550227895|pages=67–}}
• Heroes is a series that plays on the concept of the new generation of gods overthrowing the old.

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• The television series Lost uses Greek mythology, primarily in its online Lost Experience.{{cite book|last=López|first=Antonio|title=Mediacology: A Multicultural Approach to Media Literacy in the 21st Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J9Uvirp7ZuwC&pg=PA75|access-date=15 December 2012|date=2008-05-01|publisher=Peter Lang|isbn=9780820497075|pages=75–}}
• The television Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and its spin-off Xena: Warrior Princess are set in a fantasy version of ancient Greece and play with the legends, rewriting and updating them for a modern audience.{{cite book|last=Westfahl|first=Gary|title=The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M_3kNDKhxIcC&pg=PA1075|access-date=13 December 2012|year=2005|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=9780313329531|pages=1075–7}}{{cite book|last=Westfahl|first=Gary|title=The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M_3kNDKhxIcC&pg=PA1355|access-date=13 December 2012|year=2005|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=9780313329531|pages=1355–}}{{cite book|last=Newcomb|first=Horace|title=Encyclopedia of television: A-C|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CFXgj7a55agC&pg=PA2603|access-date=13 December 2012|year=2004|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=9781579584115|pages=2603–}}
• The use of Greek mythology in children's television shows is credited with helping to bring "the great symbols of world literature and art" to a mass audience of children who would otherwise have limited exposure.{{cite book|last1=Singer|first1=Jerome Leonard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=58kUg63ASpwC&pg=PA12|title=Television, Imagination, and Aggression: A Study of Preschoolers' Play and Television-viewing Patterns|last2=Singer|first2=Dorothy G.|publisher=Psychology Press|year=1981|isbn=9780898590609|pages=12–|access-date=15 December 2012}} Children's programming has included items such as a recurring segment on CKLW-TV{{clarify|date=September 2015}} where Don Kolke would be dressed up as Hercules and discuss fitness and Greek mythology.{{cite book|last1=Kiska|first1=Tim|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I3teZvXYNl8C&pg=PA63|title=Detroit Television|last2=Golick|first2=Ed|date=2010-04-21|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=9780738577074|pages=63–|access-date=15 December 2012}}
• Netflix's original animated TV series Blood of Zeus featured Greek gods and goddesses such as Hermes; it premiered on 27 October 2020.
• The Netflix series Kaos is a contemporary take on Greek mythology that is about Prometheus arranging a plan to take down Zeus.{{cite web |last1=Denise |first1=Petski |title='Kaos' Trailer: First Look At Jeff Goldblum As Zeus In Netflix Series |url=https://deadline.com/video/kaos-trailer-jeff-goldblum-zeus-netflix-series/ |website=Deadline Hollywood |access-date=21 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240320013014/https://deadline.com/video/kaos-trailer-jeff-goldblum-zeus-netflix-series/ |archive-date=20 March 2024 |date=19 March 2024 |url-status=live}}

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• Amazons, prior to their appearance in American Hollywood films where they have been presented in "swimsuit-style costume without armor" and "western lingerie combined with various styles of 'tough' male" clothing, had been traditionally depicted in classical Greek warrior armor.{{cite book|last=Schubart|first=Rikke|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GYOeGrtUjAoC&pg=PA35|title=Super Bitches and Action Babes: The Female Hero in Popular Cinema, 1970-2006|publisher=McFarland|year=2007|isbn=9780786429240|pages=35–|access-date=13 December 2012}}
• Jean Cocteau regarded Orpheus as "his myth," and used it as the basis for many projects, including Orphée.{{cite book|last=Hart|first=Stephen M.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QGiRtopmuk4C&pg=PA43|title=Companion to Latin American Film|publisher=Boydell & Brewer Ltd|year=2004|isbn=9781855661066|pages=43–|access-date=16 December 2012}}
• The film Orfeu Negro is Marcel Camus' reworking of the Cocteau film.
• The 2001 film Moulin Rouge! is also based on the Orpheus story,{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_UBIEAAAAMBAJ/page/n1/mode/2up|title=Billboard|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|volume=113|date=December 18, 2001|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_UBIEAAAAMBAJ/page/n94 79]|access-date=16 December 2012|issue=49}} but set in 1899, and containing modern pop music.{{cite book|last=Krenn|first=Sylvia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w9LSdwyp_NsC&pg=PA8|title=Postmodern and Oriental Elements in 'Moulin Rouge!': Film Analysis|date=March 2012|publisher=Diplomarbeiten Agentur|isbn=9783863411442|pages=8–|access-date=16 December 2012}}
• The Disney production of Hercules (1997) was inspired by Greek myths, but "greatly modernizes the narrative" as it goes "to great lengths to spice up its mythic materials with wacky comedy and cheerfully anachronistic dialogue," which, Keith Booker says, is playing a part in the "slow erosion of historical sense."{{cite book|last=Booker|first=M. Keith|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jD9_0jxVmqUC&pg=PA63|title=Disney, Pixar, and the Hidden Messages of Children's Films|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2010|isbn=9780313376726|pages=63–|access-date=28 March 2013}} Moreover, though the film depicts Greek mythology, the title character is named after the Roman hero, rather than the Greek "Heracles".
• The film The Lighthouse was inspired by the myth of Prometheus, and depicts its younger lighthouse keeper in a pose similar to that of usual artistic depictions of Prometheus.

• Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition Age of Heroes Campaign Sourcebook (1994).
• Dungeons & Dragons HWR3: The Milenian Empire (1992). A Greek-inspired country within the Hollow World setting.
• Dungeons & Dragons Mythic Odysseys of Theros (2020). Based on the Greek-inspired Theros setting from the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game.

• The 1988 arcade game Altered Beast is set in Ancient Greece and follows a player character resurrected by Zeus to rescue his daughter Athena from the ruler of the underworld, Neff.
• The 1996 video game Wrath of the Gods is an adventure game set in mythical Greece, including an educational component where players can learn about Greek myths and history and see images of Greek art in cut-a-ways.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RggEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA70|title=Billboard|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|date=July 30, 1994|pages=70|access-date=21 December 2012}}
• The 2006 game Persona 3 includes many personae based on mythical Greek figures, using Tartarus in particular as the game's main dungeon.
• In 2003, GameSpy remarked that the 1986 video game Kid Icarus follows a trajectory similar to its namesake, Icarus, who had escaped imprisonment when his father created wings from feathers and wax.{{cite web|url=http://www.gamespy.com/articles/488/488733p1.html|title=GameSpy: Kid Icarus - Page 1|last=William Cassidy|date=Sep 14, 2003|work=GameSpy|access-date=22 December 2012}} The same could be said of the sequel, Kid Icarus: Uprising.
• The God of War franchise of video games is loosely based on Greek mythology, with the main character being named after Kratos (though not the same character).{{cite book|last1=Stang|first1=Bendik|last2=Osterholt|first2=Morten A.|last3=Hoftun|first3=Erik|title=The Book of Games Volume 2: The Ultimate Reference to Videogames|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NbBcVWfVCesC&pg=PA120|access-date=15 December 2012|date=2007-10-28|publisher=Book of Games|isbn=9788299737821|pages=120–}} The video game Kratos is a warrior from Sparta and the son of the King of the Greek Gods, Zeus and is the personification of power. The series follows Kratos, who initially serves the Gods and later becomes a God himself but later goes on a path of vengeance against them after they betray and try to kill him.
• Koei Tecmo's Warriors Orochi 4 follows a theme of mythology, and is set with combination between Asian Mythology, three kingdoms era, Japanese Warring States period, and Greek Mythology. Characters of this game are also focused in Greek Mythology, such as Zeus, Athena, Perseus, and Ares.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gamecity.ne.jp/orochi3/index.html|title=無双OROCHI3 公式サイト|website=無双OROCHI3 公式サイト|language=ja-JP|access-date=2018-08-13}}
• The Ubisoft game Assassin's Creed Odyssey is set in the mythological history of the Peloponnesian War. The game features a DLC pack titled "Fate of Atlantis" in which Hermes appears, revealing himself to be a member of the precursor race, the Isu.
• The 2020 game Hades incorporates gods and other figures of Greek mythology into narrative as a "dysfunctional family", which the player learns as they guide their character Zagreus to leave his father Hades and battle out of the underworld with the help of the other Olympian gods.{{cite web | url = http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/333495/Supergiants_fourth_outing_Hades_introduces_a_more_mature_organized_dev_process.php | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190117131117/http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/333495/Supergiants_fourth_outing_Hades_introduces_a_more_mature_organized_dev_process.php | url-status = dead | archive-date = January 17, 2019 | title = Supergiant's fourth outing Hades introduces a more mature, organized dev process | first = Bryant | last = Francis | date = January 17, 2019 | access-date = January 17, 2019 | work = Gamasutra }}
• In the 2002 Ensemble Studios game Age of Mythology, Greek mythology plays a large role. The Greek culture can utilize creatures from Greek mythology such as the cyclopses, chimeras, and centaurs in combat, and worship twelve different Greek gods such as Ares, Poseidon, or Hephaestus, gaining different advantages depending on the chosen god. The main campaign, which centers around an original character named Arkantos, features figures from many Greek mythological tales, with Chiron and Ajax playing the greatest roles among the Greek heroes.{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/Age_of_Mythology/page/n11/mode/2up|title = Age of Mythology}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.tomsguide.com/us/age-of-mythology-extended-edition,review-2161.html|title = 'Age of Mythology: Extended Edition' Review — Legendary|date = 8 May 2014}}
• The video game Fate Grand Order, which is part of a larger universe from Type-Moon, depicts the Twelve Olympians and their ancestors as originally being Machine Gods in the form of Spacecraft meant to terraform planets. They lose these bodies at some point and reform as traditional Earthly gods, with their new bodies based on the humanoid terminals they used for interacting with humans.{{Cite web|url=http://thegreekmyth.com/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240911231439/https://thegreekmyth.com/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=September 11, 2024|title = The greek Mythology}}{{Cite web|url=http://thegreekmyth.com/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240911231439/https://thegreekmyth.com/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=September 11, 2024|title = 'The greek Mythology' Review - The Legendary|date = 9 Sep 2024}}
• Smite features many of the Greek gods and monsters and their Roman counterparts. From Zeus to Charon, Bellona to Vulcan, they are playable gods from the Greco-Roman pantheon.
• Chapter 5: Season 2 of Fortnite Battle Royale, which started on 8 March 2024, is themed around Greek mythology and includes several mythological characters as unlockable outfits in the Battle pass and Item Shop as well as themed locales, like Mount Olympus and The Underworld along with equipable items.{{cite web |last1=Webster |first1=Andrew |title=Fortnite's new season brings Greek gods to the battle royale |url=https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/8/24093527/fortnite-chapter-5-season-2-greek-gods-battle-royale |website=The Verge |access-date=21 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240318143744/https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/8/24093527/fortnite-chapter-5-season-2-greek-gods-battle-royale |archive-date=18 March 2024 |date=8 March 2024 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |last1=Parkin |first1=Jeffrey |title=Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 2 Battle Pass skins list, including Zeus, Hades, and Aphrodite |url=https://www.polygon.com/fortnite-guide/24097617/chapter-5-season-2-battle-pass-skins-list-c5s2 |website=Polygon |access-date=21 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240311232108/https://www.polygon.com/fortnite-guide/24097617/chapter-5-season-2-battle-pass-skins-list-c5s2 |archive-date=11 March 2024 |date=11 March 2024 |url-status=live}}

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• Atalanta, Italian football club, took its name from the Greek heroine Atalanta. In addition, the club's crest depicts the face of the heroine.{{cite web |url=https://thesefootballtimes.co/2020/03/09/behind-the-badge-copa90-the-story-of-atalantas-logo/ |title=Behind the badge: the story of Atalanta's logo |date=9 March 2020 |last=Munday |first=Billy |website=thesefootballtimes.co |access-date=22 December 2020}}

• Corporations have used images and concepts from Greek mythology in their logos and in specific advertisements.
• The logo of the luxury clothing brand Versace includes a stylized image of the Greek mythological figure Medusa. The logo came from the floor of ruins in the area of Reggio Calabria, where the Versace siblings played as children. Gianni Versace chose Medusa as the logo because he wanted consumers to fall in love with his brand as if it were Medusa. The logo displays Medusa's symbols of power and luxury. The Versace logo recalls the apotropaic effects of the images of the heads of Medusa and Gorgons.

• The wine Semeli is named after Semele, who was the mother of the god of wine Dionysus, drawing on the associations to give the product credibility.{{cite book|last=Bowcher|first=Dr Wendy L.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oVDjpDbvNW4C&pg=PT107|title=Multimodal Texts from Around the World: Cultural and Linguistic Insights|date=2012-07-24|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=9780230357808|page=107|access-date=20 December 2012}}
• The sports apparel company Nike, Inc. is named after the Greek goddess of victory.{{cite book|last=Jandt|first=Fred E.|title=Intercultural Communication: A Global Reader|url=https://archive.org/details/introductiontoin00jand|url-access=registration|access-date=20 December 2012|date=2003-08-14|publisher=SAGE|isbn=9780761928997|pages=[https://archive.org/details/introductiontoin00jand/page/273 273]–}}
• TriStar Pictures, Reader's Digest,{{cite book|last=Wire|first=Elinor De|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0NK98MUpOG4C&pg=PA186|title=The Florida Night Sky: A Guide to Observing from Dusk Til Dawn|date=2002|publisher=Pineapple Press Inc|isbn=9781561642380|page=186|access-date=20 December 2012}} and Mobil Oil have used the Pegasus as their corporate logos.{{cite book|last=Nardo|first=Don|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7pu2r2e7gr8C&pg=PT29|title=The Epics of Greek Mythology|date=2011-08-01|publisher=Capstone|isbn=9780756544829|page=29|access-date=20 December 2012}}

{{Main|Greek mythology in western art and literature}}

Particularly starting in the Renaissance, artists across Europe produced thousands of works of art depicting the Greek deities and their myths, for reasons ranging from the erudite to the political to the erotic. In particular, in certain periods it was permissible to depict pagan deities nude when it would have been scandalous to so depict a human model or character.

Romans would frequently keep statuary of the Greek god Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and pleasure, in their homes to use as a method of sanctioning relaxation without "any intellectual demands."{{cite book|last=Kemp|first=Martín|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=95J-ppmZmt8C&pg=PA40|title=The Oxford History of Western Art|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2000|isbn=9780198600121|pages=40|access-date=20 December 2012}}

Medusa's likeness has been featured by numerous artists including Leonardo da Vinci, Peter Paul Rubens, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin and Benvenuto Cellini.Wilk, Stephen R. [https://books.google.com/books?id=OnHO4orvz18C&q=Medusa:+Solving+the+Mystery+of+the+Gorgon Medusa: Solving the Mystery of the Gorgon], June 26, 2000, Front matter, {{ISBN|0-19-512431-6}}.

File:Rubens saturn.jpg|The myth of the titan Cronus eating his children was the subject of works by Rubens (shown here) and Francisco de Goya.{{cite book|editor=C Scott Littleton|title=Gods, Goddesses, and Mythology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ufSStXPECkC&pg=PA339|year=2005|publisher=Marshall Cavendish|isbn=9780761475590|pages=339–}}

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Some stories in the Arabian Nights, such as the story of Sinbad blinding a giant, are thought to have been inspired by Greek myths.{{cite book|last=Irwin|first=Robert|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FYWlfx1FpDwC&pg=PA216|title=The Arabian Nights: A Companion|date=2004-01-17|publisher=Tauris Parke Paperbacks|isbn=9781860649837|page=216|access-date=18 December 2012}}

In 1816, Percy Shelley had been working on a translation of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound for Lord Byron.{{cite book|last=Mellor|first=Anne K.|title=Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DuELAQOPUp8C&pg=PA235|access-date=16 December 2012|date=2012-08-06|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=9780415901475|pages=235–}} That summer, Shelley and his lover, Mary Godwin, as well as others, stayed with Lord Byron in Switzerland. As a contest, Byron suggested that they each write a ghost story. Mary, who would eventually adopt the name Mary Shelley, began writing her Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, which was declared the winner of the contest.{{cite book|last=Angelo|first=Joseph A.|title=Robotics: A Reference Guide to the New Technology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=73kNFV4sDx8C&pg=PA81|access-date=16 December 2012|year=2007|publisher=Libraries Unlimited|isbn=9781573563376|pages=81–}}{{cite book|last=Joshua|first=Essaka|title=Mary Shelley: 'Frankenstein'|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2g7KOI9bOfsC&pg=PA23|access-date=16 December 2012|year=2008|publisher=Humanities-Ebooks|pages=23–}} The fact that she overtly subtitled the novel emphasizes Shelley's inspiration from the story of Prometheus, drawing particular attention to the "metaphorical parallels."{{cite book|last=Joshi|first=S. T.|title=Icons of Horror and the Supernatural: An Encyclopedia of Our Worst Nightmares|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jh97v3zeKc0C&pg=PA342|access-date=16 December 2012|year=2007|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=9780313337819|pages=342–}}

In Irish literature, writers such as Seamus Heaney have used the Greek myths to "intertextualize" the actions of the British Government.{{cite book|last=McLeod|first=John|title=The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VFaLTxjiucwC&pg=PA115|access-date=19 December 2012|year=2007|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781134344024|pages=115–}}

Andrew Lang rewrote the tale of Perseus as the anonymous "The Terrible Head" in The Blue Fairy Book.Matthew Hodgart, "[http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1967/dec/21/the-witches-secrets/ The Witches' Secrets]" December 21, 1967

In C. S. Lewis's retelling of Cupid and Psyche, Till We Have Faces, the narrator is Psyche's sister.Schakel, Peter. (2003) [http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=12321 Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold]. Retrieved on August 5, 2008.

Roberta Gellis's Shimmering Splendor is a retelling of Cupid and Psyche."[http://www.likesbooks.com/cgi-bin/bookReview.pl?BookReviewId=4847 Shimmering Splendor] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608140143/http://www.likesbooks.com/cgi-bin/bookReview.pl?BookReviewId=4847 |date=2011-06-08 }}"{{unreliable source?|date=December 2012}}

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The Italian poet Dante Alighieri used characters from the legend of Troy in his Divine Comedy, placing the Greek heroes in hell to show his contempt for their actions. Poets of the Renaissance began to widely write about Greek mythology, and "elicited as much praise for borrowing or reworking" such material as they did for truly original work. The poet John Milton used figures from classical mythology to "further Christianity: to teach a Christian moral or illustrate a Christian virtue."{{cite book|last=Osgood|first=Charles Grosvenor|title=The classical mythology of Milton's English poems|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mYeaAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR9|access-date=16 December 2012|year=1900|publisher=William C. Brown Reprint Library n. d.|pages=9–}} Euphrosyne, Hymen and Hebe appear in his L'Allegro."[http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/mws/lastman/milton.htm Milton, L'Allegro and Il Penseroso] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306225753/http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/mws/lastman/milton.htm |date=2019-03-06 }}" Works of Alexander Pope, such as "The Rape of the Lock", parody classical works, even as the income from his translations of Homer allowed him to become "the first English writer to earn a living solely through his literature."

In Ode to a Nightingale, John Keats rejects "charioted by Bacchus and his pards."John Keats, [http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/329/ Ode To A Nightingale] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140131111241/http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/329/ |date=2014-01-31 }} In his poem "Endymion", the "song of the Indian Maid" recounts how "Bacchus and his crew" interrupted the maid in her solitude."[http://englishhistory.net/keats/poetry/songoftheindianmaid.html John Keats: Poetry, Song of the Indian Maid, from Endymion]" He also wrote the narrative poem Lamia.http://www.bartleby.com/126/36.html Keats's poem Lamia

Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Oenone" is her lament that Paris deserted her for Helen."[http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2172.html RPO -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson Oenone] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110518045131/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2172.html |date=2011-05-18 }}"

When poets of the German Romantic tradition, such as Friedrich Schiller, wrote about the Greek gods, their works were frequently "erotically charged", as they were "openly sensual and hedonistic".{{cite book|last=Murray|first=Christopher John|title=Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850: L-Z. Index|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wgS2nYRIuUEC&pg=PA778|access-date=16 December 2012|year=2004|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9781579584221|pages=778–}}

In "The Waste Land", T. S. Eliot incorporates a range of elements and inspirations from Greek mythology to pop music to Elizabethan history to create a "tour-de-force exposition of Western culture, from the elite to the folk to the utterly primitive."{{cite book|last1=Bell|first1=Michael|last2=Poellner|first2=Peter|title=Myth and the Making of Modernity: The Problem of Grounding in Early Twentieth-Century Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SPWN5ULjaZgC&pg=PA164|access-date=16 December 2012|year=1998|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=9789042005839|pages=164–}}

The work of Indian poet Henry Louis Vivian Derozio was heavily influenced by Greek mythology.{{cite book|last=Singh|first=Kanwar Dinesh|title=New Explorations In Indian English Poetry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Q4Y8xD4zYEC&pg=PA1|access-date=16 December 2012|date=2004-01-01|publisher=Sarup & Sons|isbn=9788176254458|pages=1–}}

Nina Kosman published a book of poems inspired by Greek myths created by poets of the twentieth century from around the world which she intended to show not only the "durability" of the stories but how they are interpreted by "modern sensibility."{{cite book|last=Kosman|first=Nina|title=Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d8qTLjwGw8gC&pg=PR17|access-date=16 December 2012|date=2001-03-22|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195133417|pages=17–}}

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• The Fortunate Isles and Their Union is a Jacobean era masque, written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, which was first performed on January 9, 1625."[http://www.bartleby.com/216/0100.html The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21). Vol. 6. The Drama to 1642, Part Two]"
• In William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Hecate appears as the queen of witches, uniquely placing the Anglo-Saxon witches under a Greek goddess's control.{{cite book|last=Shamas|first=Laura Annawyn|title="We Three": The Mythology of Shakespeare's Weird Sisters|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HKtSIOeodPgC&pg=PA34|access-date=12 December 2012|year=2007 |publisher= Peter Lang|isbn=9780820479330|pages=34–}} Hymen appears as a character name in Shakespeare's As You Like It.{{cite web|url = http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xAsYou.html |title = As You Like It: A Study Guide|first = Michael J. |last = Cummings|website = Cummings Study Guides|date = 2010}}
• In the Shakespeare play Hamlet, the protagonist makes a remark of comparing, Titan Hyperion to a Satyr.{{Cite web |title=That was to this, Hyperion to a satyr |url=https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/202125/that-was-to-this-hyperion-to-a-satyr |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=English Language & Usage Stack Exchange |language=en}}
• In 1903, Hugo von Hofmannsthal adopted Sophocles' version of the story of Electra for the stage. Hofmannsthal adapted his work to become the libretto for Richard Strauss' opera Elekra in 1909. The opera, although controversial for both its "modern" music and its depiction of Elektra{{cite book|last=Lloyd-Jones|first=Hugh|title=Greek in a Cold Climate|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dvwdka5aJmsC&pg=PA155|access-date=16 December 2012|year=1991|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9780389209676|pages=155–}} through "psycho-sexual symbolism,"{{cite book|last=Gassner|first=John|title=The Reader's Encyclopedia of World Drama|url=https://archive.org/details/readersencyclope0000gass|url-access=registration|access-date=16 December 2012|date=2002-05-09|publisher=Courier Dover Publications|isbn=9780486420646|pages=[https://archive.org/details/readersencyclope0000gass/page/201 201]–}} inspired many more adaptations of Electra by other writers and composers during the twentieth century.{{cite book|last=Scott|first=Jill|title=Electra After Freud: Myth And Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=83JE6sEFP9cC|access-date=16 December 2012|year=2005|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=9780801442612}}
• Sartre and Jean Anouilh used Greek myths as inspiration for their plays during the Nazi occupation of France, as the "distancing effect" of the ancient settings allowed their critique to bypass censors. Later, Heiner Müller also used the coding of Greek mythology to disguise his commentaries calling for reform within the German Democratic Republic.{{cite book|last1=Miller|first1=Ann Stamp|last2=Miller|first2=G. Ann Stamp|title=The Cultural Politics of the German Democratic Republic: The Voices of Wolf Biermann, Christa Wolf, and Heiner Müller|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rG2UmRcz6AUC&pg=PA156|access-date=21 December 2012|date=2004-05-30|publisher=Universal-Publishers|isbn=9781581124149|pages=156–}}
• The Architects (2012) is a play by the London-based Shunts predicated on the myth of the Minotaur, and is about a "return to when Greece was the cradle of civilisation and not about riots on the streets."{{cite news|url=http://metro.co.uk/2012/11/28/the-architects-is-a-very-modern-play-steeped-in-greek-mythology-3077901/|title=The Architects is a very modern play steeped in Greek mythology | work=Metro|access-date=18 December 2012}}
• The 2016 stage musical Hadestown, a production with music by Anais Mitchell, follows the stories of Orpheus and Eurydice as well as Hades and Persephone. The show premiered Off-Broadway in 2016, ran at the National Theatre in London in 2018, and premiered on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre in March 2019.{{cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/hadestown-musical-sets-broadway-dates-and-theatre|title=Hadestown Musical Sets Broadway Dates and Theatre|last=McPhee|first=Ryan|date=27 November 2018|website=Playbill|access-date=2018-12-14}}
• The Concept Album, Epic: The Musical, is a fully released concept album by Jorge Rivera Herrans that retells the Story of Odysseus' journey after the Trojan war

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• In the nineteenth century, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote children's versions of the Greek myths,{{cite book|last=Reid|first=Robin Anne|title=Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jKr0jWY8FLkC&pg=PA261|access-date=16 December 2012|year=2009|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9780313335914|pages=261–}} which he intended to "entirely revolutionize the whole system of juvenile literature." His work, along with the works of Bulfinch and Kingsley, have been credited with "recast[ing] Greek mythology into a genteel Victorian subject.{{cite book|last1=Keyser|first1=Elizabeth Lennox|last2=Pfeiffer|first2=Julie|title=Children's Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NM2lANfmxUAC&pg=PA22|access-date=17 June 2013|year=2002|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=9780300094893|pages=22–}}"
• The Percy Jackson & the Olympians series by Rick Riordan imagines that the Greek gods continue to conceive demigods in the modern age; the titular Percy Jackson is a son of Poseidon.{{cite book|last=Reid|first=Rob|title=Reid's Read-Alouds: Selections for Children and Teens|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q8LzAzIDDoIC&pg=PA77|access-date=12 December 2012|year=2009|publisher=ALA Editions|isbn=9780838997512|pages=77–}} Riordan created the character when trying to help his son, who has ADHD and dyslexia, get interested in reading. In the stories, Percy's learning disabilities are a result of his heritage, thus Riordan used Greek mythology "as it has always been used: to explain something that is difficult to understand."{{cite book|last=Graves|first=Robert|title=The Greek Myths|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EbirnNTqi2EC&pg=PT14|access-date=13 February 2013|date=2012-04-24|publisher=Penguin|isbn=9781101580509|pages=14–|edition=Classics Deluxe}} Riordan continues exploring Classical mythology in his subsequent series The Heroes of Olympus and The Trials of Apollo, the latter told from the perspective of the titular god. Following the conclusion of The Trials of Apollo, Riordan began working on standalone books in the series with the first being The Sun and the Star taking place from the perspectives Nico di Angelo and Will Solace who were recurring characters in the Percy Jackson series as well as the upcoming Percy Jackson and the Chalice of the Gods which will take place between The Heroes of Olympus and The Trials of Apollo.

{{Category see also|Classical mythology in comics|Classical mythology in anime and manga}}

• In the opera within Girl Genius, the Heterodyne daughter who falls in love with the Storm King is Euphrosynia."[http://www.quadibloc.com/other/anoint.htm Annotations to the Girl Genius Comic]"
• The Amazon queen Hippolyta was used as the mother of Wonder Woman in DC Comics.{{cite book|last=Littleton|first=C. Scott|title=Gods, Goddesses, and Mythology: Gorgons-Inanna|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QfXP_teqPrgC&pg=PA688|access-date=15 December 2012|year=2005|publisher=Marshall Cavendish|isbn=9780761475590|pages=688–}}
• In 2016 the French philosopher Luc Ferry launched the comic book series La Sagesse des mythes (The Wisdom of the Myths), which retells the Greek myths in a popular form but informed by modern scholarship.
• Fabrizio Dori's comic books Il dio vagabondo (2018) and Il figlio di Pan (2023) are about a satyr who searches for the Greek gods in the modern world.{{cite news |last=Jarno |first=Stéphane |date=3 December 2023 |url=https://www.telerama.fr/livre/fabrizio-dori-auteur-du-fils-de-pan-nous-vivons-grace-a-des-histoires-que-l-on-nous-a-racontees-7018328.php |title=Fabrizio Dori, auteur du 'Fils de Pan' : 'Nous vivons grâce à des histoires que l'on nous a racontées' |trans-title=Fabrizio Dori, author of 'Son of Pan': 'We live thanks to the stories we have been told' |newspaper=Télérama |language=fr |access-date=24 May 2024 |archive-date=29 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240229142409/https://www.telerama.fr/livre/fabrizio-dori-auteur-du-fils-de-pan-nous-vivons-grace-a-des-histoires-que-l-on-nous-a-racontees-7018328.php |url-status=live }}
• Some manga and anime have been influenced by Greek mythology to create their own one. In Saint Seiya, for instance, Athena has an army of "saints" (聖闘士, "knights" in some translations) who fight for protecting her against her rivals Poseidon and Hades during the "holy wars", the saints (as other warriors) wear armours based on the constellations or mythological beasts. Sailor Moon's plot is based on the moon mythology. The protagonist is Usagi the reincarnation of the Moon Princess: Selene, as her boyfriend (Mamoru) is the Endymion's reincarnation, and the sailor guardians (セーラー戦士) are based on the mythology of the planets of solar system.

• At Niagara Falls, the Bridal Veil Falls had previously been called Iris Falls,{{cite book|last=Tieck|first=Sarah|title=Niagara Falls|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qx9qKbhPxVAC&pg=PA7|access-date=15 December 2012|date=2008-01-01|publisher=ABDO|isbn=9781599289380|pages=7–}} and Goat Island had previously been called Iris Island{{cite book|last=Worcester|first=Joseph Emerson|title=A Geographical Dictionary Or Universal Gazetteer, Ancient and Modern|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NXM9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA663|access-date=15 December 2012|year=1823|publisher=Cummings & Hilliard|pages=663–}} as namesakes of the Greek goddess of the rainbow, Iris, because of the rainbow effects that appear in the mists at the falls.{{cite book|last=Olmanson|first=Eric D.|title=The Future City on the Inland Sea: A History of Imaginative Geographies of Lake Superior|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e8r3rulbOUQC&pg=PA50|access-date=15 December 2012|year=2007|publisher=Ohio University Press|isbn=9780821417072|pages=50–}} A local newspaper which was published from 1846 to 1854 was also called The Iris, and the publication The Daily Iris became the Bingham Daily Republican.{{cite book|last=Place|first=J. H. French, Frank|title=Gazetteer of the State o...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0DGV5fcygfYC&pg=PA452|access-date=15 December 2012|publisher=Genealogical Publishing Com|isbn=9780806314563|pages=452–|year=1995}}
• Iapetus Ocean and Rheic Ocean are the names given to the proto-Atlantic Ocean.{{cite book|last1=Moores|first1=Eldridge M.|last2=Twiss|first2=Robert J.|title=Tectonics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QERcN2XEYwQC&pg=PA360|access-date=16 December 2012|date=1995-11-15|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=9780716724377|pages=360–}}{{clarify|date=December 2012}}
• Francisco de Orellana gave the Amazon River its name after reporting pitched battles with tribes of female warriors, whom he likened to the Amazons.[https://www.britannica.com/place/Amazon-River Britannica]
• The original interior of the Glyptothek, the first public sculpture museum, was adorned with frescoes of Norse mythology by Peter Cornelius and his students which provided a "lively dialogue" between the building and its contents. When the building was repaired after war-time damage, the frescoes were not restored.{{cite book|last=Watkin|first=David|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=39T1zElEBrQC&pg=PA484|title=A History of Western Architecture|date=2010-06-09|publisher=Laurence King Publishing|isbn=9781856694599|pages=484–|access-date=18 December 2012}}
• Brookside, also known as the John H. Bass Mansion, has the Muses decorating the ceiling around the skylight in its ballroom.{{cite news|url=http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121128/LIVING/311289985|title=Wearing its holiday finest, former Bass Mansion on USF campus open to public -|work=News-Sentinel.com|access-date=18 December 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140326014356/http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20121128%2FLIVING%2F311289985|archive-date=26 March 2014}} In Philadelphia, the Masonic Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania's Corinthian Hall is decorated with feathers to Greek mythology.{{cite book|last1=Moss|first1=Roger W.|last2=Crane|first2=Tom|title=Historic Landmarks of Philadelphia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tNjAgQxISgoC&pg=PA176|access-date=18 December 2012|date=2008-10-10|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=9780812241068|pages=176–}}
• The MGR Samadhi Memorial in Chennai, India, was redecorated in 2012 to include a pegasus,{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/two-leaves-adorns-facade-of-renovated-mgr-memorial/article4181848.ece|title='Two leaves' adorns facade of renovated MGR memorial|date=December 10, 2012|work=The Hindu|access-date=18 December 2012}} which symbolized "valour and energy."{{cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/MGR-Memorial-to-wear-a-new-look-with-added-wings/articleshow/16360978.cms|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130529083858/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-09-12/chennai/33788221_1_structure-pegasus-wings|url-status=live|archive-date=May 29, 2013|title=MGR Memorial to wear a new look with added wings|last=Julie Mariappan|date=Sep 12, 2012|work=The Times of India|access-date=12 April 2013}}
• Hydra the Revenge is a Bolliger & Mabillard designed floorless roller coaster at Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom in Allentown, Pennsylvania with a Lernaean Hydra theme. The name of the ride pays tribute to the "Hercules" wooden roller coaster that once stood on the same spot. The theme itself is the Hydra coming back to life and seeking revenge over Hercules.{{cite book|last1=Paulsen|first1=Emily|last2=Paulsen|first2=Faith|last3=O'Toole|first3=Christine H.|title=Insiders' Guide Fun With the Family Pennsylvania: Hundreds of Ideas for Day Trips With the Kids|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tk7HW17GgpEC&pg=PA66|access-date=12 December 2012|date=2007-08-01|publisher=Globe Pequot|isbn=9780762743971|pages=66–}}{{Dead link|date=June 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

• According to some sources, Caribbean Calypso music is named after the Greek nymph Calypso, though this is not universally accepted.{{cite book|last=Littleton|first=C. Scott|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QfXP_teqPrgC&pg=PA600|title=Gods, Goddesses, and Mythology|date=2005-01-01|publisher=Marshall Cavendish|isbn=9780761475590|pages=600–|access-date=19 March 2014}}
• Musical parodist Peter Schickele created the opera Iphigenia in Brooklyn by P D Q Bach, in which Iphigenia has traveled to the New World.{{cite book|last1=Morford|first1=Mark Percy Owen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ecGXcMRAPXcC&pg=RA1-PA9|title=Classical Mythology|last2=Lenardon|first2=Robert J.|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1999|isbn=9780195143386|pages=1–|access-date=12 December 2012}}{{cite book|last=Schickele|first=Peter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rDmfAAAAMAAJ|title=The definitive biography of P. D. Q. Bach, 1807-1742?|publisher=Random House|year=1976|isbn=9780394465364|access-date=12 December 2012}}
• Heavy metal band Slough Feg included two songs, written by the band and influenced by Homer's Odyssey, on their 2005 album Atavism.{{cite web|url=http://www.maximummetal.com/reviews/revresults.asp?ID=sfeg_a&idRev=816&idBand=662|title=Slough Feg - Atavism - 2005 - Cruz Del Sur|date=27 June 2005|publisher=maximummetal.com/|access-date=21 January 2013|archive-date=3 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161103220051/http://www.maximummetal.com/reviews/revresults.asp?ID=sfeg_a&idRev=816&idBand=662|url-status=dead}}
• The Greek myths have been the inspiration for a number of operas. Claudio Monteverdi and Giacomo Badoaro used a Greek text about the homecoming of Odysseus as the basis for Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria over which they attempted to overlay Christian beliefs and create in Zeus an omnipotent and merciful being.{{cite book|last=Ewans|first=Michael|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oSSchkXuHUUC&pg=PA118|title=Opera from the Greek: Studies in the Poetics of Appropriation|date=2007-10-30|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=9780754660996|pages=118–|access-date=16 December 2012}} Cherubini's Médée takes the story which had been portrayed in many version on the French stage as a melodrama, and instead portrays Medea as a tragic heroine who deserves the audiences' sympathy.
• Bob Dylan's 2020 song "Mother of Muses" is studded with references to Greek mythology.{{Cite web|title=Mother of Muses: From Mnemosyne to Elvis, Talking Heads to Leonard Cohen {{!}} Untold Dylan|url=https://bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/15786|access-date=2021-05-01|language=en-GB}}
• "The End" by The Doors : Oedipus
• Epic: The Musical by Jorge Rivera-Herrans is a fully sung-through musical adaptation (in the form of a series of concept albums) telling the story of Homer's Odyssey.

During the Middle Ages, writers disdained the use of "pagan" influences such as Greek mythology which were seen to be a "slight to Christianity." From a current cultural perspective, the Greek Orthodox metropolitan Agustinos Kantiotis has denounced the use of Greek mythology such as the use of Hermes on a postage stamp and the incorporation of images from Greek mythology into universities' logos and buildings.{{cite book|last=Makrides|first=Vasilios|title=Hellenic temples and Christian churches: a concise history of the religious cultures of Greece from antiquity to the present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kKOY5NsekfkC&pg=PA149|access-date=20 April 2013|year=2009|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=9780814795682|pages=149–}}

File:Estatua de Poseidón en Progreso Yucatán.jpg erected in 2024 in the sea of the Mexican tourist town of Progreso, Yucatán offended the local Mayan people who called for its removal as their faith has their own god of the water Chaac and so the Poseidon statue was according to them, culturally insensitive]]

Within the cultures of Latin America, beginning in the nineteenth century, the inspiration for culture has been dominated by elements from the Native American cultural myths, rather than those of the Greco-Roman inspiration. In 2024, a 10 foot tall statue of Greek god of the sea Poseidon was erected in the sea near the beach in the tourist town of Progreso, Yucatán in Mexico.https://greekcitytimes.com/2024/07/13/statue-of-greek-god-poseidon-in-mexico-faces-removal-after-indigenous-groups-protest/ The statue depicted Poseidon rising from the sea, standing on a rock, with his trident in his right hand and a crown on his head as Greek mythology considers him "king of the sea".https://greekcitytimes.com/2024/07/13/statue-of-greek-god-poseidon-in-mexico-faces-removal-after-indigenous-groups-protest/ The presence of the statue there was opposed by the "Indigenous Strategic Litigation" group and its leader the lawyer Carlos Morales filed a legal complaint claiming that the Poseidon statue disrespects local Mayan beliefs which has their own god of the water called "Chaac".https://greekcitytimes.com/2024/07/13/statue-of-greek-god-poseidon-in-mexico-faces-removal-after-indigenous-groups-protest/ With regards the Poseidon statue, Morales stated the complaint that "Poseidon is a figure entirely foreign to our Maya culture" and besides that, the statue also appears to violate Mexican environmental law as the statue was erected directly into the sea.https://greekcitytimes.com/2024/07/13/statue-of-greek-god-poseidon-in-mexico-faces-removal-after-indigenous-groups-protest/

Greek women poets of the modern era; such as Maria Polydouri, Pavlina Pamboudi, Myrtiotissa, Melissanthi and Rita Boumi-Pappa; rarely use mythological references, which Christopher Robinson attributes to the "problem of gender roles, both inside and outside the myths."{{cite book|last=Christopher Robinson|editor=C. A.: Festschrift Trypanis, Peter A.. Mackridge|title=Ancient Greek Myth in Modern Greek Poetry: Essays in Memory of C.A. Trypanis|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tnf2Ac1MlTgC&pg=PA136|page=109|chapter= Helen or Penelope? Women writers, myth and the problem of gender roles|year=1996|isbn=9780714647517}}

Martin Winter says that the idea that many commentaries about the widespread use of Greek myths throughout Western culture does not take into account the vast difference between what a modern viewer takes from the story and what it would have meant to an ancient Greek.{{cite book|last=Winkler|first=Martin M.|title=Classical Myth and Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f4vCQYhKCvcC&pg=RA2-PT235|access-date=20 December 2012|year=2001|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195130041|pages=2–}}

• Greek mythology retelling
• Achilles#in modern literature and arts
• Ares in popular culture
• Apollo#Modern reception
• Centaurs in popular culture
• Classical mythology in culture
• Circe in popular culture
• Cultural depictions of Medusa and Gorgons
• Hades in popular culture
• Harpy#Harpies in popular culture
• Hephaestus in popular culture
• Hercules in popular culture
• Iphigenia#A modern viewpoint
• Iris (mythology)#Fictional adaptations
• Jason in popular culture
• Maenad#References in modern culture
• Morpheus (mythology)#Appearances
• Muses in popular culture
• Pan in popular culture
• Paris (mythology)#Later treatments
• Pegasus in popular culture
• Persephone in popular culture
• Philoctetes#Modern depictions
• Proteus in popular culture
• Titans in popular culture

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