A handbook to the reception of classical mythology / edited by Vanda Zajko and Helena Hoyle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zajko, Vanda, editor.

Hoyle, Helena, editor.

Series:

Wiley Blackwell handbooks to classical reception.

THEi Wiley ebooks.

Wiley Blackwell Handbooks to Classical Reception

THEi Wiley ebooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mythology, Classical--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Mythology, Classical.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (499 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley Blackwell, 2017.

System Details:

Access using campus network via VPN at home (THEi Users Only).

Summary:

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

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part I Mythography

Chapter 1 Greek Mythography

Beginnings and Classical Mythography

Post-classical Mythography

Closing Thoughts

Guide to Further Reading

References

Chapter 2 Roman Mythography

Surviving Texts

A Case Study: The Mythographic Midas

From Narrative to Interpretation: Fulgentius

Afterlife

Notes

Chapter 3 Myth and the Medieval Church

Chapter 4 The Renaissance Mythographers

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)

Ludovicus Caelius Rhodiginus (1453-1525), Alexandro ab Alexandro (1463-1525)

Georgius Pictor (1500-1569)

Montifalchius

Julianus Aurelius Havrech

Lilio Gregorio Giraldi (1479-1552)

Vincenzo Cartari (1502?-1570?)

Natale Conti

François Pomey (1618-1673)

The Occult Tradition

Conceptions of Myth in the Renaissance Mythographers

Translations

Chapter 5 Bulfinch and Graves: Modern Mythography as Literary Reception

Chapter 6 Myth Collections for Children

Chapter 7 Contemporary Mythography: In the Time of Ancient Gods, Warlords, and Kings

Echo

Popular Culture and/as Myth

Myth Only Produces More Myth

This is Going to Make a Great Story

Conclusion

Primary sources

Film

Novels

Videogame

TV shows

Fanfiction

Comics and graphic novels

Secondary sources

Part II Approaches and Themes

Chapter 8 Circean Enchantments and the Transformations of Allegory

Double Vision

Corrective Lenses

Prisms

Scattered Beams

Notes.

Guide to Further Reading

Chapter 9 The Comparative Approach

The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Smith, Frazer, Harrison

The Aftermath of the Ritualists

The Eranos Set

Walter Burkert: Biological Programs and the Orientalizing Revolution

Looking for Difference: Smith, Lincoln, and Doniger

Chapter 10 Revisionism

Chapter 11 Alchemical Interpretations of Classical Myths

Historical Background

"Poetic Theology," "Prisca Theologia," and Renaissance Alchemy

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Survival of the Alchemical Readings of Classical Myths

An Example of the Diversity of Alchemical Exegeses of Myths

The Classical Scholarship of the Alchemists

Alchemical elaborations on classical myths

Responses of mythographs to the alchemical exegesis of myths

Chapter 12 Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: On the Gods of Greece, Italy, and India

Chapter 13 The Golden Age

Appendix

Terminology

Chapter 14 Matriarchy and Utopia

Part III Myth, Creativity, and the Mind

Chapter 15 The Half-Blood Hero: Percy Jackson and Mythmaking in the Twenty-First Century

Gods in the Modern World

Re-evaluating the Classical Tradition

Mythography and Intertextuality

Chapter 16 Myth as Case Study

Chapter 17 Mythical Narrative and Self-Development

Chapter 18 Finding Asylum for Virginia Woolf's Classical Visions

Part IV Iconic Figures and Texts.

Chapter 19 Orpheus and Eurydice

Dismembering Orpheus

Remembering Eurydice

Chapter 20 Narcissus and Echo

Echo: See Narcissus

Metamorphosis of Narcissus

Narcissus and Echo

The Nymph Echo

Tales of Love

Chapter 21 Prometheus, Pygmalion, and Helen: Science Fiction and Mythology

Introduction: Science Fiction and (or as) Mythology

Prometheus

Pygmalion

Helen

Chapter 22 Dionysus in Rome

Earliest Evidence for Dionysus in Italy

Liberalia

Bacchanalia

Acknowledgments

Chapter 23 Cupid and Psyche

Allegory

Visual Art

Literary Interpretations

Chapter 24 Constructing a Mythic City in the Book of the City of Ladies: A New Space for Women in Late Medieval Culture

Christine's Many-Layered Mythic City in the Book of the City of Ladies

A New Space for Women and the Rewriting of Myth

Book of the City of Ladies, Part II

Chapter 25 Francis Bacon's Wisdom of the Ancients: Between Two Worlds

Chapter 26 Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

Chapter 27 Ancient and Modern Re-sounding: Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria

Two Scores for the Price of One: Differing Sources, Forms, and Prologues of Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria

Revamping a Classic: Towards Understanding the Reception of Homer's Odyssey in Seventeenth-Century Venice

Reconceiving Greek Tragedy: The Florentine Camerata and the Accademia degli Incogniti.

Penelope's Song and Fidelity: Monteverdi's Ancient and Modern Music

Chapter 28 Shelley Prometheus Unbound

Chapter 29 George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion

Chapter 30 Camus and the Myth of Sisyphus

Sisyphus' Hatred of Death and Scorn for the Gods

Epicurean Hatred of Death and Scorn for the Gods

The Happiness of Sisyphus, Pindar, and Valéry

Conclusions

Chapter 31 Creative Strategies: Lars von Trier's Medea

The Reception of von Trier's Medea

From Settings to Fascinating Landscapes: Trier's Depiction of Nature

Always the Provocateur: From one Murderer and Two Deaths to Two Murderers and a Suicide

Chapter 32 Regarding the Pain of Others with Marsyas: On Tortures Ancient and Modern

Why Marsyas?

Index

EULA.

Notes:

Incudes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781119072119

1119072115

9781119072102

1119072107

9781119072034

1119072034

OCLC:

969973824