We need to find who authorized the site, what their authority on it is, who published it, what's their authority on it, the purpose of the site, motives for publishing the site, who the intended audience is, and what the objective of the site is, is it treated fairly.
The first site is more of a "sell to students" type website that prays to those who need free essays, research papers, college essays, school essays. It is purely a commercial use website.
The first website treats the subject as more of a commercial site,and is more of a website with no authorized user, no name of a professional. There is no authorized user and thus no one published it. The purpose of this site is more a cheat sheet to students, offering them to pay for research papers made about Greek mythology. The intended audience is more those who haven't done any research on their own and need a quick paper to turn in without any research. Desperate people, especially students. The motive for publishing the site is to cheat college students out of learning on their own. As a result, it's not treated fairly. However, the website is mostly a huge advertisement campaign site, promoting such items as film schools like the New York Film Academy, advertising student documents for sale, reports on the topic of Greek mythology. The currency of the site is recent, copyrighted from 2000-2010. The documentation and quality of the site is very basic, but has just enough backstory and name of the God and a bit in-depth information on the subjects. The site is published by GreekMythology and we can read more about their authority in the a little bit.
However, the problem with this is that the facts technically aren't accurate, as they do not have a source and no author to attribute their research to. The level of opinion here is more basic facts for advertisement purposes, no specific evidence for the site or the information. There is no reviews for the site, no peer reviews to legitimize the site for a research paper, thus making this site rather ineffective for us. However, the site does have an online book source that we may look at for reviewal of information. WHile the site is logically ordered and organized in a simple manner, there is no scholarship or anaylytical thinking involved in this site, just basic facts. The conclusion is that the information is slightly well-documented, but not a good site to use for information because there are no references, author or sources for the site except for some online books about Greek mythology.
The second source is an educational site, created by Aaron J. Atsma, the designated author. We have certified that there is an author, there is a certified bibliography on site for educational purposes. The site is for educational purposes to the audience as attributed to the sources and biography of the author on the page, showing us that they have legitimate organization of the website. The intended audience is those who love classic mythology, hence the style of the page, and who love researching this stuff, especially those interested in Greek mythology. The site is treated very fairly as a result. The 2nd site is copyrighted to 2000-2008 by Aaron Atsma, which makes this a current site. The information is well-documented with a certified author and a list of their respective links to other sites and sources from Theoi classical texts. Both websites end :.com, but only one, the first website, has advertisements while the second one does not, just a reference section to buy from. We can also tell by something you may read about the author or something they may have written.
The conclusion is that I am more reluctant to use the 2nd site, Theoi, simple because we know little of the author, even googled names can yield excellent results of a named author, and quality is nuanced throughout the site, it is objective, more encyclopedic in nature, i.e. summaries, factuals, etc, rather than opinionated. The site also doesn't use exaggerated emotional language, the marks to use for a legitimate site, or claims that are not supported by evidence. There is no affiliation or formal partnership with Amazon, the author is just telling us that you can buy the books designated in their bibliography section.
To learn more about the author or publisher of a website, simply look for the texts or more info links, such as Greek-Mythology-Gods.com, even though sometimes there may be no "About Us" section on the website, which is usually not a god sign. All the info on the 1st site was free, making money off of their advertisements. The fact is that we have no authors and no info on their authority to write on the given topic. Plus we know nothing of the authority of the publisher, making this content highly uncredible. We also have no references to verify the validity of the site, thus we can conclude that the first site is no good, as they are more interested in making money off of advertisements rather than going for quality and objective information.
No author.
Atsma, Aaron J. The Theoi Project : Greek Mythology, Auckland, New Zealand. Website copyright © 2000–2008,
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