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<blockquote data-quote="freyar" data-source="post: 3763477" data-attributes="member: 40227">For those of you who've read Edith Hamilton, you know that's not quite right; she was the headmistress of Bryn Mawr college who became a famous classics scholar in retirement and died in 1963.&nbsp; In any event, I've recently been paging through her Mythology (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mythology-Edith-Hamilton/dp/0316341517/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-0828536-2675216?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1189393685&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank">amazon listing</a>), and the introduction makes several comments about the Greek vs earlier (and later, such as Medieval) myth that strike me as quite appropriate for fantasy role playing, particularly with all the buzz about the &quot;points of light&quot; approach.&nbsp; Here are the relevant passages (I've shortened this quite a bit):I won't vouch for the anthropological accuracy of these statements, but, when I first read this months ago, I thought that it sounded like a good description of a horror setting (maybe Ravenloft, though I've never played there).&nbsp; It also sounds to me a lot like the &quot;points of light&quot; setting.&nbsp; Here's her take on the Greco-Roman worldview, just picking what I think is the best paragraph:She then gives examples of &quot;facts&quot; in Greek myth, such as the fact that the myths give precise geographical locations for such events as the birth of Aphrodite.My poll question, then, is which kind of setting you prefer to play in.&nbsp; &quot;Points of light,&quot; where anything beyond your town is unknown and terrifying.&nbsp; Or &quot;Greco-Roman,&quot; where there might be great danger, but it can be understood and catalogued?And if any others of you have read Hamilton, I'd love any more discussion on her works. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="freyar, post: 3763477, member: 40227"] For those of you who've read Edith Hamilton, you know that's not quite right; she was the headmistress of Bryn Mawr college who became a famous classics scholar in retirement and died in 1963. In any event, I've recently been paging through her [i]Mythology[/i] ([url=http://www.amazon.com/Mythology-Edith-Hamilton/dp/0316341517/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-0828536-2675216?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189393685&sr=8-1]amazon listing[/url]), and the introduction makes several comments about the Greek vs earlier (and later, such as Medieval) myth that strike me as quite appropriate for fantasy role playing, particularly with all the buzz about the "points of light" approach. Here are the relevant passages (I've shortened this quite a bit): I won't vouch for the anthropological accuracy of these statements, but, when I first read this months ago, I thought that it sounded like a good description of a horror setting (maybe Ravenloft, though I've never played there). It also sounds to me a lot like the "points of light" setting. Here's her take on the Greco-Roman worldview, just picking what I think is the best paragraph: She then gives examples of "facts" in Greek myth, such as the fact that the myths give precise geographical locations for such events as the birth of Aphrodite. My poll question, then, is which kind of setting you prefer to play in. "Points of light," where anything beyond your town is unknown and terrifying. Or "Greco-Roman," where there might be great danger, but it can be understood and catalogued? And if any others of you have read Hamilton, I'd love any more discussion on her works. ;) [/QUOTE]

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