Great post, Rebecca. I know exactly when I first became interested in the Greek gods. Clash of the Titans, the 1981 version that used the wonderful stop-motion animation. I don't know how old I was when I first saw it, 5 or 6 maybe, but I loved it and watched it over and over. That film led me to want to know as much as I could about the Greek gods.

I moved on to all the Hercules movies I could find (the Lou Ferrigno ones were awesome) but I always insisted on calling him Herakles after learning his Greek name, even tho that meant a lot of people didn't know who I was talking about.

Reading both of Homer's epics long before I could really understand them. And so on. I've been reading about Greek myth ever since.

Anyway, great post. I hope your son develops a love of these wonderful myths too.