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Modern Greek Myth Storyboards

Explore how an ancient Greek myth can be retold for a modern audience. Read the source notes, analyse the example adaptation, then plan a six-panel storyboard. Use evidence from the notes and explain how your modern version keeps or changes the myth’s message.

Source notes: myths and retellings

Greek myths were stories shared and reshaped across generations. They explained the world, explored human fears and desires, and showed the power of the gods. Myths were not always fixed texts: poets and artists could change details for different audiences. The story of Pandora tells of a woman who opens a forbidden container, releasing suffering into the world; hope remains inside. It is often used to explore curiosity, responsibility and the consequences of choices. In the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, Theseus enters the Labyrinth, defeats the Minotaur and escapes with help from Ariadne’s thread. Retellings may change the setting or characters while keeping a central conflict or theme. A useful adaptation makes clear what has changed, what remains recognisable, and why the story matters to its new audience.

Read and interpret

Use the source notes above for Questions 1–4.

1.Multiple choice: Which statement best explains why Greek myths could change over time?

They were retold for different audiences by poets and artists.
Every storyteller was required to copy one official version.
The gods rewrote the stories whenever they became unpopular.
The myths were only used to record exact historical events.

2.Short answer: Name two purposes Greek myths could serve, according to the source notes.

3.True or false? In the story of Pandora, hope remains inside the container after the other troubles escape.

TrueFalse

4.Short answer: In the Theseus myth, what object helps Theseus find his way out of the Labyrinth, and who provides it?

Adapt a myth for today

Imagine a modern audience encountering one of these myths for the first time. Your adaptation can update its place, characters and details, but should make the connection to the original meaningful.

5.Choose Pandora or Theseus and the Minotaur. State one central theme from that myth that your retelling will keep.

6.Fill in the blank: I will set my story in .

7.Fill in the blank: The main character will be .

8.Fill in the blank: The ancient challenge or object I will reimagine is .

9.Short answer: What consequence will follow your main character’s most important choice? Explain how this consequence connects to the myth’s theme.

10.Multiple choice: Which plan is most likely to make a modern retelling recognisable as a version of the original myth?

Keep a key conflict or theme, while updating the setting and details.
Copy every ancient detail exactly and add no new ideas.
Change the characters, conflict and theme so nothing is connected.
Explain the original myth only, without creating a new story.

Plan your storyboard

Plan six scenes in sequence. Include a beginning, a rising problem, a turning point and an ending. Add a short caption to each panel so a reader can follow the action.

Panel 1: Introduce the character and modern setting.

Panel 2: Show the challenge or warning.

Panel 3: Show the character making a choice.

Panel 4: Show the problem getting worse.

Panel 5: Show the turning point or climax.

Panel 6: Resolve the story and show its message.

11.Long answer: Choose one panel and explain how its action or visual detail would help a modern audience recognise the connection to the original myth.

12.Long answer: Explain one important way your adaptation changes the original myth and one important way it stays connected. What might a modern audience understand from this version?