A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology

<p>Notes on Contributors ix</p>
<p>Introduction 1<br />Vanda Zajko</p>
<p>Part I Mythography 13</p>
<p>1 Greek Mythography 15<br />Robert L. Fowler</p>
<p>2 Roman Mythography 29<br />Gregory Hays</p>
<p>3 Myth and the Medieval Church 43<br />James G. Clark</p>
<p>4 The Renaissance Mythographers 59<br />John Mulryan</p>
<p>5 Bulfinch and Graves: Modern Mythography as Literary Reception 75<br />John Talbot</p>
<p>6 Myth Collections for Children 87<br />Sheila Murnaghan and Deborah H. Roberts</p>
<p>7 Contemporary Mythography: In the Time of Ancient Gods, Warlords, and Kings 105<br />Ika Willis</p>
<p>Part II Approaches and Themes 121</p>
<p>8 Circean Enchantments and the Transformations of Allegory 123<br />Greta Hawes</p>
<p>9 The Comparative Approach 139<br />Sarah Iles Johnston</p>
<p>10 Revisionism 153<br />Lillian Doherty</p>
<p>11 Alchemical Interpretations of Classical Myths 165<br />Didier Kahn</p>
<p>12 Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: On the Gods of Greece, Italy, and India 179<br />Phiroze Vasunia</p>
<p>13 The Golden Age 193<br />Andreas T. Zanker</p>
<p>14 Matriarchy and Utopia 213<br />Peter Davies</p>
<p>Part III Myth, Creativity, and the Mind 229</p>
<p>15 The Half ]Blood Hero: Percy Jackson and Mythmaking in the Twenty–First Century 231<br />Joanna Paul</p>
<p>16 Myth as Case Study 243<br />Heather Tolliday</p>
<p>17 Mythical Narrative and Self ]Development 257<br />Meg Harris Williams</p>
<p>18 Finding Asylum for Virginia Woolf s Classical Visions 271<br />Emily Pillinger</p>
<p>Part IV Iconic Figures and Texts 285</p>
<p>19 Orpheus and Eurydice 287<br />Genevieve Liveley</p>
<p>20 Narcissus and Echo 299<br />Rosemary Barrow</p>
<p>21 Prometheus, Pygmalion, and Helen: Science Fiction and Mythology 311<br />Tony Keen</p>
<p>22 Dionysus in Rome 323<br />Fiachra Mac G&oacute;r&aacute;in</p>
<p>23 Cupid and Psyche 337<br />Julia Haig Gaisser</p>
<p>24 Constructing a Mythic City in the Book of the City of Ladies: A New Space for Women in Late Medieval Culture 353<br />Kathryn McKinley</p>
<p>25 Francis Bacon s Wisdom of the Ancients: Between Two Worlds 367<br />John Channing Briggs</p>
<p>26 Pieter Bruegel the Elder s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus 379<br />Jeanne Nuechterlein</p>
<p>27 Ancient and Modern Re ]sounding: Monteverdi s Il ritorno d Ulisse in patria 391<br />George Burrows</p>
<p>28 Shelley Prometheus Unbound 407<br />Michael O Neill</p>
<p>29 George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion 419<br />Helen Slaney</p>
<p>30 Camus and the Myth of Sisyphus 433<br />Kurt Lampe</p>
<p>31 Creative Strategies: Lars von Trier s Medea 447<br />Mette Hjort</p>
<p>32 Regarding the Pain of Others with Marsyas: On Tortures Ancient and Modern 463<br />Lisa Saltzman</p>
<p>Index 475</p>