Pop Mythology

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POP MYTHOLOGY: COLLECTED ESSAYS by Laura A. Shamas, Ph.D., is a collection of twenty-three essays about mythology and modern life, seventeen were previously published, plus six new ones and an introduction. From casual to scholarly, the essays vary in tone and topic: from profiles of gods and goddesses, to thoughts on myth in branding, archetypes in film, myth and social media, and more. The author's expertise as a mythology speaker and as a longtime myth consultant is represented in this collection. The book is divided into two sections: "Pantheon Pieces" and "Myth Miscellany." Essay titles in Part One, "Pantheon Pieces, " include: "Aphrodite and Ecology, " "Apollo Updated, " "Pieces of Athena (and Her Head), " "The Hera Factor in Hillary's Run, " "The Holiness of Health [Asclepius & Hygieia], " and "Martha Hearts Hestia." Topics covered in Part Two, "Myth Miscellany, " include games shows and romance, courtly love, the end times, the Occupy Movement, the Oscars, creation myth and outer space, a meditation on "Revolution" in the I Ching, and Twitter. This second section also includes a "how-to" approach to myth adaptation that Shamas has taught, for over a decade, to writers of all genres at universities and workshops. The book as a whole represents various ways in which the author has advocated for myth's value in modern life. There are aspects of memoir/biography in certain essays, too.