Confusing My Myths

When I was in high school, one of my favorite and best English teachers, Miss Melanie Smith (whom some of you may know, as she is currently at MSU), taught an extensive unit on mythology, which I thoroughly enjoyed. But, apparently I need to brush up on some of the stories. When we first began talking about Antigone, I thought that I remembered a myth where she and Ismene turned into birds at the end in order to escape certain death. However, I was very wrong. That was Procne and Philomela. I had the wrong house; Antigone and Ismene were of course part of the royal house of Thebes, and Procne and Philomela were part of the royal house of Athens. It too is an interesting story. If you are interested, I found a version of this story at http://www.pelion.info/myths_procne.html

I also found it interesting when I visited this site that in the list of its contents was the heading "What's New," which of course I responded (to myself) with "What's Old?" How could there possibly be anything new on a mythologies site?! Well, it is actually a place where the creator of the site talks about personal matters and why some of the links don't work. Very misleading.