Graeco-Roman horror and its modern reception : unleashing classical dread / edited by Isidro Molina Zorrilla, Nuno Simoes Rodrigues, and Vasileios Balaskas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Molina Zorrilla, Isidro, editor.

Rodrigues, Nuno Simões, editor.

Balaskas, Vasileios, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Routledge monographs in classical studies http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/65161cf8-1bfa-5bcb-2959-afcf08d809f7

Routledge monographs in classical studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical literature--History and criticism.

Classical literature.

Horror in literature.

Horror in art.

Literature, Modern--Classical influences.

Literature, Modern.

Civilization, Modern--Classical influences.

Civilization, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2026.

Contents:

Introduction : unleashing classical dread / Vasileios Balaskas, Isidro Molina Zorrilla, Nuno Simões Rodrigues

Horrific facts over horrific fictions : ancient interventions into horror's appeal / Kathleen Cruz

A morbid taste for the suffering girl : cultural roots of gore scenes in ancient Greek novel / Nuno Simões Rodrigues

Violence and forgetting : traces of Greek mythology in Flanagan's Manor / Joana Pinto Salvador Costa

From terrifying to comforting : a brief study of underworld daemons in Etruria / Catarina dos Santos Madeira

Laughing and/or fearing the witch : exploring Horace's Canidia & the monstrous-feminine / Harrison Biddle

"That limitless mind" : Yog-Sothoth and the reception of Hermetic gnōsis in H.P. Lovecraft's fiction / Carlos Sanchez Pérez

The Basel Dancers (BS 415) : a tragic chorus pleading with the ghost of Patroclus? / Miriam Librán Moreno

Dead men do tell tales : Lucan's necromancy recentered / Patricia Y. Hatcher

Reworking the horror of war and death in contemporary Spanish theatre : the "impossible heroism" of Numantia and Saguntum / Vasileios Balaskas

Cannibals, Amazons, and the male gaze : horror and horror cinematography in imperial Greek epic / James Kieran Oakley

Horresco intuens : body horror, embodied spectatorship, and the extispicium of Seneca's Oedipus / Izzy Levy

"Convert of die" : the horror of cannibalism in Blood of Zeus and Graeco-Roman mythology / Aisha Dad

"Don't go in there!" : forms of fear and suspense in Aeschylus / Marta González González

Knives and masks : agency as a suspense device from Greek tragedy to slasher / Isidro Molina Zorrilla

Lucian's lies and Trimalchio's truths : memorates and credibility in The lover of lies and the Satyricon / Mallory Fitzpatrick.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Other Format:

Print version: Graeco-Roman horror and its modern reception.

ISBN:

9781003668701

1003668704

9781040615898

1040615899

9781040582671

1040582672

Publisher Number:

90103178959

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