If i wanted to study Greek Mythology as a job, What would be the job title?

I'm 13. I've always been very interested in greek/roman mythology. I wanted to know what a few job titles might be and maybe the average salaries too.|||I'm not sure that there are any jobs that involve Greek mythology outside of academia or writing. There are authors who make their living writing modernizations of Greek myths (often with many pieces of incorrect information, like that guy who writes the "Percy Jackson" series: if you could do it while not offending my mythological correctness sensibilities I would actually buy your book). Professors of anthropology and classics might both touch upon the subject of Greek mythology; the only college in the world which has a department in mythology, although not very many professors specifically thereof, is Harvard. Haha yeah...good luck with that. (I'm sort of aiming there too.) Marketing sometimes touches upon mythology, like whoever came up with Nike's brand name and trademark.





Here's a site for professorial salaries: http://chronicle.com/stats/aaup/


Authors can make anywhere from a pittance to millions, more if they get a movie deal, like Percy-Jackson-guy just did.


Marketing I think usually makes 40-100k a year, depending on level of experience or management.





I have some practical advice for your middle school/high school years if you want to study mythology in high school or college. Take Latin or Greek if your school offers it, as Latin at least will of necessity teach you some mythology, and in AP Latin you read some of the Aeneid, a mythological source text. Depending on how much mythology you know, you might also want to look into taking mythology tests so that colleges will see your awards and go "oh hey, this kid really knows his stuff--let's let him in because he'll be a great asset to our (whatever) department." If you're about at the D'aulaires book of Greek myths level, see if your teachers (in English or a language) will offer the National Mythology Exam. You'll probably come close to acing it. If, on the other hand, you know a lot more mythology than is shown in that book, you might want to try to persuade a teacher (8th grade is a good time to start) to let you take the Medusa Mythology Exam. It's pretty hard, though.|||You could look into mythography, mythographer, and/or mythologist. They're pretty much just in acadaemia, though.





I love mythology, too, and am a polytheist.

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|||greek mythology is not a job but an interest and you may make money writting an other rubbish book|||There's a job for that?! Sign me up!