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A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology


A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology


Wiley Blackwell Handbooks to Classical Reception 1. Aufl.

von: Vanda Zajko, Helena Hoyle

171,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 16.03.2017
ISBN/EAN: 9781119072102
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 496

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<i>A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology</i> presents a collection of essays that explore a wide variety of aspects of Greek and Roman myths and their critical reception from antiquity to the present day.<br /> <ul> <li>Reveals the importance of mythography to the survival, dissemination, and popularization of classical myth from the ancient world to the present day</li> <li>Features chronologically organized essays that address different sets of myths that were important in each historical era, along with their thematic relevance</li> <li>Features chronologically organized essays that address different sets of myths that were important in each historical era, along with their thematic relevance</li> <li>Offers a series of carefully selected in-depth readings, including both popular and less well-known examples</li> </ul>
<p>Notes on Contributors ix</p> <p><b>Introduction 1<br /></b><i>Vanda Zajko</i></p> <p><b>Part I Mythography 13</b></p> <p>1 Greek Mythography 15<br /><i>Robert L. Fowler</i></p> <p>2 Roman Mythography 29<br /><i>Gregory Hays</i></p> <p>3 Myth and the Medieval Church 43<br /><i>James G. Clark</i></p> <p>4 The Renaissance Mythographers 59<br /><i>John Mulryan</i></p> <p>5 Bulfinch and Graves: Modern Mythography as Literary Reception 75<br /><i>John Talbot</i></p> <p>6 Myth Collections for Children 87<br /><i>Sheila Murnaghan and Deborah H. Roberts</i></p> <p>7 Contemporary Mythography: In the Time of Ancient Gods, Warlords, and Kings 105<br /><i>Ika Willis</i></p> <p><b>Part II Approaches and Themes 121</b></p> <p>8 Circean Enchantments and the Transformations of Allegory 123<br /><i>Greta Hawes</i></p> <p>9 The Comparative Approach 139<br /><i>Sarah Iles Johnston</i></p> <p>10 Revisionism 153<br /><i>Lillian Doherty</i></p> <p>11 Alchemical Interpretations of Classical Myths 165<br /><i>Didier Kahn</i></p> <p>12 Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: On the Gods of Greece, Italy, and India 179<br /><i>Phiroze Vasunia</i></p> <p>13 The Golden Age 193<br /><i>Andreas T. Zanker</i></p> <p>14 Matriarchy and Utopia 213<br /><i>Peter Davies</i></p> <p><b>Part III Myth, Creativity, and the Mind 229</b></p> <p>15 The Half?]Blood Hero: Percy Jackson and Mythmaking in the Twenty-First Century 231<br /><i>Joanna Paul</i></p> <p>16 Myth as Case Study 243<br /><i>Heather Tolliday</i></p> <p>17 Mythical Narrative and Self?]Development 257<br /><i>Meg Harris Williams</i></p> <p>18 Finding Asylum for Virginia Woolf ’s Classical Visions 271<br /><i>Emily Pillinger</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Iconic Figures and Texts 285</b></p> <p>19 Orpheus and Eurydice 287<br /><i>Genevieve Liveley</i></p> <p>20 Narcissus and Echo 299<br /><i>Rosemary Barrow</i></p> <p>21 Prometheus, Pygmalion, and Helen: Science Fiction and Mythology 311<br /><i>Tony Keen</i></p> <p>22 Dionysus in Rome 323<br /><i>Fiachra Mac Góráin</i></p> <p>23 Cupid and Psyche 337<br /><i>Julia Haig Gaisser</i></p> <p>24 Constructing a Mythic City in the Book of the City of Ladies: A New Space for Women in Late Medieval Culture 353<br /><i>Kathryn McKinley</i></p> <p>25 Francis Bacon’s Wisdom of the Ancients: Between Two Worlds 367<br /><i>John Channing Briggs</i></p> <p>26 Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus 379<br /><i>Jeanne Nuechterlein</i></p> <p>27 Ancient and Modern Re?]sounding: Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria 391<br /><i>George Burrows</i></p> <p>28 Shelley Prometheus Unbound 407<br /><i>Michael O’Neill</i></p> <p>29 George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion 419<br /><i>Helen Slaney</i></p> <p>30 Camus and the Myth of Sisyphus 433<br /><i>Kurt Lampe</i></p> <p>31 Creative Strategies: Lars von Trier’s Medea 447<br /><i>Mette Hjort</i></p> <p>32 Regarding the Pain of Others with Marsyas: On Tortures Ancient and Modern 463<br /><i>Lisa Saltzman</i></p> <p>Index 475</p>
<p><b>Vanda Zajko</b> is Reader in Classics at the University of Bristol, UK. She is co-editor with Miriam Leonard of <i>Laughing with Medusa: Classical Myth and Feminist Thought</i> (2006); with Alexandra Lianeri of <i>Translation and the Classic: Identity as Change in the History of Culture</i> (2008); and with Ellen O’Gorman of <i>Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis: Ancient and Modern Stories of the Self</i> (2013).</p>
Few literary traditions have left a greater imprint on the modern world than the rich body of myths passed down through the ages from the ancient Greeks and Romans. <i>A</i> <i>Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology</i> presents a collection of essays that explore all aspects of the characters and characterizations of Greek and Roman myths and their critical reception from antiquity to the present day. Featuring contributions from top international Classical scholar and experts from cognate fields, readings reveal how ancient myths have been continually interpreted, reinterpreted, and reshaped over time. Initial essays offer a chronological exploration of mythography from Greek to modern times, along with innovative topics such as anthologies of myths for children and contemporary mythography, featuring a discussion of fan-fiction and the graphic novel. Subsequent sections cover a wide range of approaches and themes, as well as the pantheon of iconic figures and texts from antiquity and beyond. Written with impeccable scholarship, <i>A</i> <i>Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology</i> offers an essential resource to the evolving reception of Greco-Roman mythology throughout history—while revealing its enduring influences on Western literary and cultural traditions.

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