A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology (eBook)

Vanda Zajko, Helena Hoyle (Herausgeber)

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2017 | 1. Auflage
496 Seiten
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-119-07210-2 (ISBN)

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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

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).

Inhalt

Title Page 5
Copyright Page 6
Contents 7
Notes on Contributors 11
Introduction 17
Part I Mythography 29
Chapter 1 Greek Mythography 31
Beginnings and Classical Mythography 33
Post-classical Mythography 37
Closing Thoughts 40
Guide to Further Reading 41
References 41
Chapter 2 Roman Mythography 45
Introduction 45
Surviving Texts 45
A Case Study: The Mythographic Midas 47
From Narrative to Interpretation: Fulgentius 52
Afterlife 53
Notes 55
Guide to Further Reading 55
References 56
Chapter 3 Myth and the Medieval Church 59
Guide to Further Reading 69
References 70
Chapter 4 The Renaissance Mythographers 75
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) 75
Ludovicus Caelius Rhodiginus (1453–1525), Alexandro ab Alexandro (1463–1525) 76
Georgius Pictor (1500–1569) 77
Montifalchius Julianus Aurelius Havrech
Lilio Gregorio Giraldi (1479–1552) 78
Vincenzo Cartari (1502?–1570?) 78
Natale Conti 79
François Pomey (1618–1673) 80
The Occult Tradition 80
Conceptions of Myth in the Renaissance Mythographers 84
Translations 85
Notes 87
Guide to Further Reading 87
References 88
Chapter 5 Bulfinch and Graves: Modern Mythography as Literary Reception 91
Notes 100
Guide to Further Reading 101
References 101
Chapter 6 Myth Collections for Children 103
Guide to Further Reading 115
References 116
Chapter 7 Contemporary Mythography: In the Time of Ancient Gods, Warlords, and Kings 121
Introduction 121
Echo 123
Popular Culture and/as Myth 125
Myth Only Produces More Myth 127
This is Going to Make a Great Story 128
Conclusion 131
Notes 131
Guide to Further Reading 132
References 133
Primary sources 133
Film 133
Novels 133
Videogame 133
TV shows 133
Fanfiction 134
Comics and graphic novels 134
Secondary sources 134
Part II Approaches and Themes 137
Chapter 8 Circean Enchantments and the Transformations of Allegory 139
Double Vision 140
Corrective Lenses 143
Prisms 147
Scattered Beams 149
Notes 151
Guide to Further Reading 152
References 152
Chapter 9 The Comparative Approach 155
The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 155
Smith, Frazer, Harrison 157
The Aftermath of the Ritualists 159
The Eranos Set 161
Walter Burkert: Biological Programs and the Orientalizing Revolution 162
Looking for Difference: Smith, Lincoln, and Doniger 163
Notes 165
Guide to Further Reading 166
References 166
Chapter 10 Revisionism 169
Notes 179
Chapter 11 Alchemical Interpretations of Classical Myths 181
Historical Background 181
“Poetic Theology,” “Prisca Theologia,” and Renaissance Alchemy 182
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Survival of the Alchemical Readings of Classical Myths 184
An Example of the Diversity of Alchemical Exegeses of Myths 186
The Classical Scholarship of the Alchemists 188
Alchemical elaborations on classical myths 189
Responses of mythographs to the alchemical exegesis of myths 190
Notes 191
Guide to Further Reading 192
References 192
Chapter 12 Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: On the Gods of Greece, Italy, and India 195
Notes 206
Guide to Further Reading 206
References 207
Chapter 13 The Golden Age 209
Notes 219
Guide to Further Reading 219
Appendix 220
Terminology 220
References 226
Chapter 14 Matriarchy and Utopia 229
Guide to Further Reading 239
References 240
Part III Myth, Creativity, and the Mind 245
Chapter 15 The Half-Blood Hero: Percy Jackson and Mythmaking in the Twenty-First Century 247
Gods in the Modern World 249
Re-evaluating the Classical Tradition 251
Mythography and Intertextuality 254
Notes 256
Guide to Further Reading 257
References 257
Chapter 16 Myth as Case Study 259
Guide to Further Reading 270
References 270
Chapter 17 Mythical Narrative and Self-Development 273
Notes 283
Guide to Further Reading 283
References 284
Chapter 18 Finding Asylum for Virginia Woolf’s Classical Visions 287
Guide to Further Reading 298
References 298
Part IV Iconic Figures and Texts 301
Chapter 19 Orpheus and Eurydice 303
Dismembering Orpheus 304
Remembering Eurydice 307
Guide to Further Reading 313
References 314
Chapter 20 Narcissus and Echo 315
Echo: See Narcissus 315
Metamorphosis of Narcissus 317
Narcissus and Echo 319
The Nymph Echo 320
Tales of Love 323
Guide to Further Reading 324
References 325
Chapter 21 Prometheus, Pygmalion, and Helen: Science Fiction and Mythology 327
Introduction: Science Fiction and (or as) Mythology 327
Prometheus 330
Pygmalion 331
Helen 332
Conclusion 333
Notes 333
Guide to Further Reading 334
References 334
Chapter 22 Dionysus in Rome 339
Introduction 339
Earliest Evidence for Dionysus in Italy 340
Liberalia 342
Bacchanalia 345
Acknowledgments 349
Guide to Further Reading 349
References 349
Chapter 23 Cupid and Psyche 353
Allegory 354
Visual Art 357
Translations 360
Literary Interpretations 361
Notes 363
Guide to Further Reading 364
References 365
Chapter 24 Constructing a Mythic City in the Book of the City of Ladies: A New Space for Women in Late Medieval Culture 369
Christine’s Many-Layered Mythic City in the Book of the City of Ladies 369
A New Space for Women and the Rewriting of Myth 370
Book of the City of Ladies, Part II 374
Notes 380
Guide to Further Reading 381
References 381
Chapter 25 Francis Bacon’s Wisdom of the Ancients: Between Two Worlds 383
Guide to Further Reading 392
References 393
Chapter 26 Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus 395
Notes 404
Guide to Further Reading 404
References 404
Chapter 27 Ancient and Modern Re-sounding: Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria 407
Two Scores for the Price of One: Differing Sources, Forms, and Prologues of Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria 409
Revamping a Classic: Towards Understanding the Reception of Homer’s Odyssey in Seventeenth-Century Venice 411
Reconceiving Greek Tragedy: The Florentine Camerata and the Accademia degli Incogniti 413
Penelope’s Song and Fidelity: Monteverdi’s Ancient and Modern Music 417
Notes 418
Guide to Further Reading 420
References 421
Chapter 28 Shelley Prometheus Unbound 423
Guide to Further Reading 432
References 433
Chapter 29 George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion 435
Notes 445
Guide to Further Reading 446
References 446
Chapter 30 Camus and the Myth of Sisyphus 449
Sisyphus’ Hatred of Death and Scorn for the Gods 450
Epicurean Hatred of Death and Scorn for the Gods 453
The Happiness of Sisyphus, Pindar, and Valéry 455
Conclusions 458
Notes 458
Guide to Further Reading 460
References 460
Chapter 31 Creative Strategies: Lars von Trier’s Medea 463
The Reception of von Trier’s Medea 466
From Settings to Fascinating Landscapes: Trier’s Depiction of Nature 469
Always the Provocateur: From one Murderer and Two Deaths to Two Murderers and a Suicide 473
Notes 476
Guide to Further Reading 476
References 477
Chapter 32 Regarding the Pain of Others with Marsyas: On Tortures Ancient and Modern 479
Why Marsyas? 480
Notes 486
Guide to Further Reading 487
References 488
Index 491
EULA 499

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.3.2017
• Reihe/Serie: HCRZ - Wiley-Blackwell Handbooks to Classical Reception
• Reihe/Serie: HCRZ - Wiley-Blackwell Handbooks to Classical Reception
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Classical Studies • Humanistische Studien • Mythologie • Reception of the Ancient World • Rezeption der Antike
• ISBN-10: 1-119-07210-7 / 1119072107
• ISBN-13: 978-1-119-07210-2 / 9781119072102