Percy Jackson author Rick Riordan has reinvented the classic myths with a modern twist.

In her long history of making classic myths her own, Ms. Stewart has occasionally produced more coherent work, but none more exciting.

Pogany's best known works consist of illustrations of classic myths and legends done in the Art Nouveau style.

Set in contemporary Paris, the movie is a variation of the classic Greek myth of Orpheus.

Garland casts aside the classic myth of the West as a place defined by "bountiful free land" and magnificent vistas.

Today, people encounter these characters most often not in classic myths but rather in their modern incarnations - as characters in novels, movies and television.

Joseph Campbell, the scholar of classic myths and folklore, was on the museum's advisory board until his death in 1987.

Based on the classic myth of antiquity, Jean Giraudoux wrote perhaps his best play.

It was a classic all-American myth.