Why We Have Winter and Other Plays

Twelve plays that have been performed by the Logos 5th grade class at elementary assemblies over the past several years.

They are based upon the following ancient myths:

Mesopotamia

• Gilgamesh and the Bull of Heaven
• Gilgamesh and the Search for Eternal Life

Classical Greece

• Atalanta Loses a Race
• Why We Have Winter
• Phrixos and Helle
• Dionysos Comes to Thebes

Norse

• Thor's "Wedding"
• In Which Thor Gets a Hammer and Sif Gets Shorn
• The Apples of Idun
• The Death of Balder

Anglo-Saxon

• Beowulf and Grendel
• Beowulf and the Dragon