Their instinct, then, is not to look around them but to adapt the myths of the last few hundred years, be they Mods, flappers or horse-riding dukes.
EURYDICE Sarah Ruhl adapts the myth of Orpheus for this drama, in which Eurydice goes on a journey through the underworld to find her father.
Many American artists have adapted the myths, themes and art of Europe to American settings.
She warmed to theater only after studying political theory and literature at the University of Western Ontario, then toured with a company she started composed primarily of Inuit writers and performers adapting Inuit myths.
EAST HAMPTON Guild Hall "Eurydice," the Orpheus myth, adapted by Sarah Ruhl.
The investigating archaeologists did not regard the practice as typical of the region, but speculate that the local geography lent itself to adapting the Greek myth, as bodies of the dead in actuality had to be ferried across a river from the town to the cemetery.
It will be interesting to see how the throngs adapt to the rumors and myths circulating... and maybe that was Walker's intention.
Daoists have transformed and adapted some ancient myths to their beliefs.
Like Johnson, he imitates creation myths, adapting Lucretius, Ovid, and the book of Genesis: "Before the sea / and before the lands … Nature / was an unatomized sundering of sames: called / chaos".
Along the way, he adapted the ancient myths of earthly history, much as Wagner did in his "Ring" cycle: the ring of evil, the rivalrous murders over its power, the dangers for all who possess it and the need for its apocalyptic destruction.
