A handbook to the reception of classical mythology

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017 and ©2017

Subject:

Mythology, Classical - Handbooks, manuals, etc

Contributor:

Zajko, Vanda, editor
Hoyle, Helena, editor

ISBN:

9781444339604 and 1444339605

Series:

Wiley Blackwell handbooks to classical reception

Description:

xiii, 482 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

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 KingsIntroduction; 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 ApproachThe 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 MythsThe 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

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

BL723 .H354 2017

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