The persistence of classical mythological patterns, themes, and narratives in modern and contemporary works of literature and cinema invites and even compels us to examine these works to determine what they assert about human nature and civilization and about the apparent necessity of repeating the behavior of the past, even across cultural and chronological boundaries. This panel invites presentations that analyze or discuss such works of the 20th and 21st century by excavating their mythic sources and exploring the parallels in these modern works and the departures of the modern versions from their underlying originals. What are the aesthetic, psychological, and sociological implications inherent in the remaking of these myths? How do they constitute a statement about the relation of the past and the present? And what, if anything, do they have to say about the future of the modern culture they depict, or about the fate of universal humanity?