0872NOTPerseus

0872NOTPerseus_Davis

Ovid Met. 4.605-5.249
Apollodorus Libr. 2.4.1-5 and 3.4.2-3

Clash of the Titans (dir. by Desmond Davis), 1981, MGM. — Harry Hamlin as Perseus, Judi Bowker as Andromeda, Maggie Smith as Thetis, and Laurence Olivier as Zeus. Special effects by Ray Harryhausen.

For thoughts on the 2010 remake (0872NOTPerseus_Letterier), see MythMatters blogpost 11 Aug 2014 "The Clash of Perseids, part I".

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OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.