Suggested Media: Hercules vs Sun Wukong

 Hercules

Greek Mythos (Heracles Specific Stories) - https://www.theoi.com/greek-mythology/heracles.html
https://www.timelessmyths.com/classical/heracles.html

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Herakles/labors.html

Sources for Greek Mythology, philosophers, and its cosmology.
https://creationconcept.info/FIRM/RF_fgreek.html
https://orb.binghamton.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1262&context=sagp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thales_of_Miletus#Theories

Other Important Sources

https://www.britannica.com/place/Mount-Olympus-mountain-Greece 

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Elysium-Greek-mythology 

https://digitalmapsoftheancientworld.com/mythology/greek-mythology/underworld-gods/ 

http://www.maicar.com/GML/Underworldmap.html 

https://archive.org/details/houseofhadesstud0000albi 

https://www.theoi.com/articles/what-is-the-greek-creation-myth/ 

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/big-history-project/what-is-big-history/origin-stories/a/origin-story-greek 

Actual Book Readings (gasp reading)
Robert Graves - The Greek Myths (Complete Edition)
Apollodorus, Michael Simpson, Leonard Baskin - Gods and Heroes of the Greeks (The Library of Apollodorus) (1976)

For Fun

-Disney Hercules (1997) (yes, it’s nothing like the actual myth, but it’s still great)

-Marvel Hercules

-Parcast’s Mythology series on Hercules

-Mythological web comics. 

-Young Hercules (1998) starring Ryan Gosling

Sun Wukong

Journey to the West (1592)

Note: The two translations of Journey to the West we used for research are Anthony C. Yu’s 4 volume translation, and the translation on InnerJourneyToTheWest.com 

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/J/bo12079590.html 

https://www.innerjourneytothewest.com/english/books/JTW/index.html 

The original Chinese text for Journey to the West can be found here.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/23962/pg23962.html  

A Supplement to Journey to the West (AKA Tower of Myriad Mirrors) (1641)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Supplement_to_the_Journey_to_the_West 

Sources for Journey to the West’s cosmological concepts

https://journeytothewestresearch.com/ 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMQeFiwacbQ 

For Fun

-Lego Monkie Kid (seriously, watch it)

-Journey to the West TV Series (1986) 

-Havoc in Heaven (1964)

-Parcast’s Mythology series on Sun Wukong

-Dragon Ball (1984)

Other

Greek 101 

Monke

My 100 page rant on how Hades was actually a pretty chill dude and why he's been SLANDERED and MISREPRESENTED in media. Cept for this guy apparently.

Wait it Heracles not Hercules?