I came across this wonderful Web site called Mythweb, the companion site for the educational adventure game, Wrath of the Gods. It’s a game for kids, marketed as a teaching tool for educators wishing to integrate Greek mythology into their curriculum. The Web site (you don’t have to buy the game to check it out, but you may want to after seeing it) offers an accurate encyclopedia of Greek characters written by Joel Skidmore and many delightful animated illustrations created by Mark Fiore, in addition to a painting of the Olympian gods by Mark Dean.
Although the game is for kids, I found the Web site charming, not to mention a fun way to brush up on some of the lesser-known mythological players (monsters, heroes and gods—oh my!). Skidmore gives both a detailed version the Odyssey, or, my favorite thing on the site, an amusing, yet accurate, abbreviated version. The site offers learning products, teacher resources, and myth related-writing contests for kids. You might also want to check out sister sites: Mesoweb and Cultures.
—Leslie
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Sari Krosinsky lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with her partner and two cats.
She received a B.A. in religious studies and a M.A. in creative writing from the University of New Mexico. Her poems have appeared in Poesia, Pebble Lake Review, The American Poetry Journal, Arsenic Lobster, Verse Daily, and others. Fiction Editor
Leslie Fox lived in Central America during her formative years and in New Mexico since the mid-70s – before it was cool.
She writes novels, short stories, plays, screenplays and creative nonfiction. Some of her short fiction has appeared in The Medical Muse, red. a journal of arts, Earth’s Daughters and Earthships: A New Mecca Poetry Collection. She has a M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of New Mexico.Art Editor
Dianne Schlies is a practicing artist and has taught studio art since 1986. She received her M.F.A. from SMU at Dallas, Texas in 1990. She has studied or worked with David Bates, Mel Bochner, Squeak Carnwath, Harmony Hammond, Ed Harris, Joyce Kozloff, Mary Ellen Mark, Duane Michals and Robert Rauschenberg. Schlies presently teaches Drawing and 2-D Design in Albuquerque, New Mexico.