What tale from Greek Mythology is your favorite now and does this differ from what was your favorite when you were younger?

I like Pandora's box. It's a good reminder that without hope, all the material "stuff" and magnificent gifts we may be given are really meaningless.

Can we have short descriptions of the mythologies that you are referring to. I would love to get to know other mythologies.

Here are a couple links where you can read Pandora's Box and find more info about Greek mythology:

http://www.geocities.com/una_sorella...es/pandora.htm
http://www.physics.hku.hk/~tboyce/ss...rometheus.html
http://gogreece.about.com/od/mytholo...thopandora.htm

That should get you started. You can find A LOT more sites if you google greek mythology+pandora's box (or whatever myth you want to know more about).

I think that Panadora's Box is an excellent story and lesson teacher even in todays fast paced world. It is always so important to slow down and take your time instead of being impatient and rushing into things without think through. The world would go more smoothly if more of us did that, myself included.

I think it's also a good reminder that gifts can unleash "demons", so give with caution.

For example, I know one teenage girl who gave her friend a pair of pierced earrings. Very nice earrings and the girl really liked them, but her mother wouldn't let her get her ears pierced until she was 16. So, while this girl really liked and appreciated the gift, it brought up some rather unpleasant feelings - jealousy at her friends who had pierced ears, anger at her parents, dispair with herself. But at the same time, she also found a glimmer of hope in knowing that in a year she would be old enough to wear them.

My favorite story is Persephone. I love the tales that explain modern day miracles and why things happen. Because persephone got tricked into eating in Hades we have the seasons.

I can't really pinpoint a single one...but the only one that comes to mind right now is Damocles and the sword.

I also have Gilgamesh in mind...but that's probably Norse.

I would have to say Pandora's box is definitely a favorite, but I also like the story of the Trojan war. This too provides good life lessons :-)

Morale such as never allow a gigantic wooden horse within your unbreakable walls?