A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology.

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 -- Introduction -- Surviving Texts -- A Case Study: The Mythographic Midas -- From Narrative to Interpretation: Fulgentius -- Afterlife -- Notes -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 3 Myth and the Medieval Church -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- 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 -- Notes -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 5 Bulfinch and Graves: Modern Mythography as Literary Reception -- Notes -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 6 Myth Collections for Children -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 7 Contemporary Mythography: In the Time of Ancient Gods, Warlords, and Kings -- Introduction -- Echo -- Popular Culture and/as Myth -- Myth Only Produces More Myth -- This is Going to Make a Great Story -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- 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 -- References -- 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 -- Notes -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 10 Revisionism -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 12 Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: On the Gods of Greece, Italy, and India -- Notes -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 13 The Golden Age -- Notes -- Guide to Further Reading -- Appendix -- Terminology -- References -- Chapter 14 Matriarchy and Utopia -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- 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 -- Notes -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 16 Myth as Case Study -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 17 Mythical Narrative and Self-Development -- Notes -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 18 Finding Asylum for Virginia Woolf's Classical Visions -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Part IV Iconic Figures and Texts.

Chapter 19 Orpheus and Eurydice -- Dismembering Orpheus -- Remembering Eurydice -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 20 Narcissus and Echo -- Echo: See Narcissus -- Metamorphosis of Narcissus -- Narcissus and Echo -- The Nymph Echo -- Tales of Love -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 21 Prometheus, Pygmalion, and Helen: Science Fiction and Mythology -- Introduction: Science Fiction and (or as) Mythology -- Prometheus -- Pygmalion -- Helen -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 22 Dionysus in Rome -- Introduction -- Earliest Evidence for Dionysus in Italy -- Liberalia -- Bacchanalia -- Acknowledgments -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 23 Cupid and Psyche -- Allegory -- Visual Art -- Translations -- Literary Interpretations -- Notes -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- 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 -- Notes -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 25 Francis Bacon's Wisdom of the Ancients: Between Two Worlds -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 26 Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus -- Notes -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- 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 -- Notes -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 28 Shelley Prometheus Unbound -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 29 George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion -- Notes -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- 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 -- Notes -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- 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 -- Notes -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 32 Regarding the Pain of Others with Marsyas: On Tortures Ancient and Modern -- Why Marsyas? -- Notes -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Index -- EULA.

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