Talk:Mythology in Rick Riordan's works

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Some sources which may be useful

There are lots of useful pages on www.rickriordan.com and www.percyjacksonbooks.com, two of which are:

The Lightning Thief readers' guide which has some mentions of Riordan's mythology.
"Rationale" which mentions some of the educational values/purposes of the mythology (in Book 1).

Here are some others I have also come across (they require reading):

Riordan as the "Myth Maker"
a professionally-published paper about Riordan's myth adaptations
a recording/transcript of a Riordan interview, which has some good quotes about his perspective on writing about mythology. ("That's a really important thought about the oral tradition, and what we think of as sort of a fixed text really isn't. ...And that's one of the neat things about mythology, is that there are so many versions that you can pick the ones you like and develop the ones that seem to make the most sense.")
The novel Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series [1] may be helpful.
"Rick Riordan discusses nterpreting mythology for middle schoolers": video/article about mythology's effect on Riordan as child.
Robert Graves's The Greek Myths [2], which contains a preface written by Riordan about how this specific book has influenced him and shaped his approach to mythology.
Shelf Awareness interview with some good quotes (about Norse mythology this time: "The main thing that struck me was how little we have in the way of primary sources. Even ...our main written accounts of Norse mythology, have to be viewed through a certain lens, as they were written when the myths were already fading from cultural memory...")

These sources were located through a Google search and careful reading. Please cite them and read carefully before quoting any. 2ReinreB2 (talk) 04:47, 6 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Fold into author page?

When I first saw the link to this page I assumed Riordan must have developed some pretty substantial mythology of his own, to warrant a whole article. But no, apparently there is no such Tolkien-esque edifice. These few paragraphs could just as well be moved over into the article on Riordan himself, IMO. CRConrad (talk) 12:03, 27 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]