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Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology

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A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology 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.
* Reveals the importance of mythography to the survival, dissemination, and popularization of classical myth from the ancient world to the present day
* Features chronologically organized essays that address different sets of myths that were important in each historical era, along with their thematic relevance
* Features chronologically organized essays that address different sets of myths that were important in each historical era, along with their thematic relevance
* Offers a series of carefully selected in-depth readings, including both popular and less well-known examples

List of contents

Notes on Contributors ix
 
Introduction 1
Vanda Zajko
 
Part I Mythography 13
 
1 Greek Mythography 15
Robert L. Fowler
 
2 Roman Mythography 29
Gregory Hays
 
3 Myth and the Medieval Church 43
James G. Clark
 
4 The Renaissance Mythographers 59
John Mulryan
 
5 Bulfinch and Graves: Modern Mythography as Literary Reception 75
John Talbot
 
6 Myth Collections for Children 87
Sheila Murnaghan and Deborah H. Roberts
 
7 Contemporary Mythography: In the Time of Ancient Gods, Warlords, and Kings 105
Ika Willis
 
Part II Approaches and Themes 121
 
8 Circean Enchantments and the Transformations of Allegory 123
Greta Hawes
 
9 The Comparative Approach 139
Sarah Iles Johnston
 
10 Revisionism 153
Lillian Doherty
 
11 Alchemical Interpretations of Classical Myths 165
Didier Kahn
 
12 Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: On the Gods of Greece, Italy, and India 179
Phiroze Vasunia
 
13 The Golden Age 193
Andreas T. Zanker
 
14 Matriarchy and Utopia 213
Peter Davies
 
Part III Myth, Creativity, and the Mind 229
 
15 The Half?]Blood Hero: Percy Jackson and Mythmaking in the Twenty-First Century 231
Joanna Paul
 
16 Myth as Case Study 243
Heather Tolliday
 
17 Mythical Narrative and Self?]Development 257
Meg Harris Williams
 
18 Finding Asylum for Virginia Woolf 's Classical Visions 271
Emily Pillinger
 
Part IV Iconic Figures and Texts 285
 
19 Orpheus and Eurydice 287
Genevieve Liveley
 
20 Narcissus and Echo 299
Rosemary Barrow
 
21 Prometheus, Pygmalion, and Helen: Science Fiction and Mythology 311
Tony Keen
 
22 Dionysus in Rome 323
Fiachra Mac Góráin
 
23 Cupid and Psyche 337
Julia Haig Gaisser
 
24 Constructing a Mythic City in the Book of the City of Ladies: A New Space for Women in Late Medieval Culture 353
Kathryn McKinley
 
25 Francis Bacon's Wisdom of the Ancients: Between Two Worlds 367
John Channing Briggs
 
26 Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus 379
Jeanne Nuechterlein
 
27 Ancient and Modern Re?]sounding: Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria 391
George Burrows
 
28 Shelley Prometheus Unbound 407
Michael O'Neill
 
29 George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion 419
Helen Slaney
 
30 Camus and the Myth of Sisyphus 433
Kurt Lampe
 
31 Creative Strategies: Lars von Trier's Medea 447
Mette Hjort
 
32 Regarding the Pain of Others with Marsyas: On Tortures Ancient and Modern 463
Lisa Saltzman
 
Index 475

About the author










Vanda Zajko is Reader in Classics at the University of Bristol, UK. She is co-editor with Miriam Leonard of Laughing with Medusa: Classical Myth and Feminist Thought (2006); with Alexandra Lianeri of Translation and the Classic: Identity as Change in the History of Culture (2008); and with Ellen O'Gorman of Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis: Ancient and Modern Stories of the Self (2013). Helena Hoyle completed her PhD at the University of Bristol in 2016. Her research focused on feminist reader response theory towards Virgil's Aeneid in Ursula Le Guin's Lavinia.

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A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology 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.

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