Styles Brainstorm: Mortal Women in Greek Mythology

Topic

My storybook will be about the different mortal women and the roles they play in Greek Mythology. Having already read the first two parts of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Books 1-7), I already have more than enough to write about and I should be able to find anything more that I desire online. I’m thinking that I’ll want to have at least four different women in different roles for the storybook. I will definitely have to include the group of stories that deal with Medea, and I’ll also probably include Andromeda since she is such a stereotypical feeble women.

Bibliography

Medea and Jason, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, translated by Tony Kline (2000); Web Source: Poetry in Translation

Perseus and Andromeda, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, translated by Tony Kline (2000); Web Source: Poetry in Translation

4 Styles

God’s Point of View

I could see myself piecing together these four stories into a storybook using a single narrator throughout the storybook. One omnipotent god (or goddess) who sees everything that happens and comments on the stories. I could use first-person through the eyes of the god. I would probably try to use a god that is impartial to the four stories involved.

Women Gossiping

Another way to tie the storybook together could be to have a group of women who were contemporaries of the four women in the stories, and they could be gossiping about the stories. This could be an interesting way to retell the stories, and I could even include some interjections from the women about differing versions of the stories. For example, one woman could have heard something different from that of the other women. This could give me some more creative room to change the stories slightly.

Grief Counseling

I think it would be interesting to do the storybook with all four of the women in the stories I choose having a group counseling session. This would allow each of them to tell their own side of the story, and I could include commentary from other women on each particular story (e.g. I could have Andromeda comment on Medea’s story and vice-versa). If I did this, I could really delve into what each character thinks.

Game Show

I could make the storybook layout a game show and have four different topics, each about the four women I choose. I could include questions for each topic and go into depth about each of the stories that way.

(Image Information: Thisbe, by John William Waterhouse (1909); Web Source: Stance on Translation)