The reception of ancient virtues and vices in modern popular culture : beauty, bravery, blood and glory / edited by Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Almagor, Eran.

Maurice, Lisa, 1968-

Series:

Metaforms 11.

Metaforms: studies in the reception of classical antiquity ; v. 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Classical, in mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (438 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017.

Summary:

In Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture , Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice offer a comprehensive collection of chapters dealing with the reception of antiquity in popular media of the modern era (19th-21st centuries). These media include theatrical plays, cinematic representations, Television drama, popular newspapers or journals, poems and outdoor festivals. For the first time in Classical Reception Studies, ancient Jewish literature and imagery are included in the discussion. The focus of the volume is both the continuity and variance between ancient and modern sets of values, which appear in the new interpretations of the ancient stories, figures and protagonists.

Contents:

Introduction: Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice

Re-enacting Ancient Virtues and Vices / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice

Staging Ancient Virtues and Vices / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice

The House of Atreus as a Reflection of Contemporary Evil: Performance Reception and The Oresteia / Lisa Maurice

Thornton Wilder’s The Alcestiad or A Life in the Sun / Hanna M. Roisman

Herodotus on Stage: The Modern Greek Play “Candaules’ Wife” by Margarita Liberaki / Ariadne Konstantinou

Screening Ancient Virtues and Vices / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice

Can You Dig It? Heroes and Villains from Xenophon’s Anabasis to Walter Hill’s The Warriors (1979) / Eran Almagor

Hercules’ Choice: Virtue, Vice and the Hero of the Twentieth-Century Screen / Emma Stafford

Deconstructing Oedipus: Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite and the Classical Tradition / Anna Foka

Caligula and Drusilla in the Modern Imagination / Emma Southon

“Salome, Nice Girl”: Rita Hayworth and the Problem of the Hollywood Biblical Vamp / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

Representations of the Christian Female Virtue in Roman Film Epics: The Sign of the Cross (1932) and Quo Vadis (1951) / Panayiota Mini

Ancient Virtues and Vices in the Modern World / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice

Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Greece / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice

Philip, Alexander and Macedonia: Between Greek Virtue and Barbarian Pleasure / Maria Pretzler

From Giscard d’Estaing to Syntagma Square: The Use and Abuse of Ancient Greece in the Debate on Greece’s eu Membership / Luca Asmonti

The Great God Pan Never Dies! / Aggeliki Koumanoudi

Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Jewish Existence / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice

In These Days, in That Season: The Nationalization of the Maccabees / David M. Schaps

A Double Edged Sword—The Power of Bar-Kosibah: From Rabbinic Literature to Popular Culture / Haim Weiss

What Has Rome to Do with Jerusalem? The Reception of Turnus Rufus and Rabbi Akivah in the Talmud and in Contemporary Israel / Gabriel Danzig.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

90-04-34772-0

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004347724 DOI