Inquiry Based Activity

I think what I learned most from this activity is how hard it is to find a good website which covers Greco-Roman mythology. The Mythology Guide was the most intuitively arranged for looking up myths - listing them by the title of the myth - but it didn't list any of the sources which it used (ex: Ovid's Metamorphoses), and the page's theme is a visual nightmare.

The Encyclopedia Mythica is good for comparing the Greek and Roman interpretations of gods, but not much else. (For example, it doesn't list any of the humans, heroes, and demigods who have myths.) The History Channel is similar: it is good for what it has, useless for what it does not.

Once I found the websites, making the activity felt like writing out a worksheet, with websites substituted for textbooks. If I make a similar activity in the future, I will absolutely use books as resources for mythology rather than websites, because I already own several books which do an excellent job at telling all the myths. I could even have them read Ovid's Metamorphoses, which is a major source for Greek and Roman myths and has the advantage of being a Latin text.

Ovid was a cool dude. Even if he did get himself kicked out of Rome by Augustus. Besides, what high school student doesn't want to learn about a man who got in enough trouble to be exiled?