This version aimed for greater realism but is still based upon the original German myth.

I wanted to pass through the original myth, but with Euripides' almost feminist approach.

It is a contemporary reworking of the original myth.

The play's title come's from the ending of the original myth, where the lead characters metamorphose into birds.

In general the proportions of the sculpture resemble the human body - a reference to the original myth.

Unlike in the original myths, she was married to him at the end of the labors.

At the same time, the opera loses the spirit of the original Greek myth.

Travelers and missionaries wrote down some of the original myths, but many were lost before they could be recorded.

But all have one original myth, a primary event.

While the game takes considerable artistic license with the source material, it does reflect events and characters from the original myth.