Description
Book SynopsisThe reception of Mediterranean Antiquity heritage is one of the dominant research areas in contemporary classical studies. This issue has constituted the scope of the conference
Reception of Ancient Myths in Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Culture, which took place at the University of Łódź (Poland) in November 2013. The volume consists of the selected articles based on the conference papers. They are divided into the main chapters: Literature, Visual and Performing Arts and Philosophy as well as Anthropology. The authors consider different methods of reception of ancient myths focusing on various cultural phenomena: literature, fine arts, theatre, cinema and pop culture.
Table of ContentsContents: Antoni Bobrowski: Some Aspects of the
Homerkritik in Ancient Literary Tradition – Roberta Franchi: Hercules at the Crossroads: Sources, Models, and Variations – Jadwiga Czerwińska:
The Myth of Helen of Troy and Its Transformations in the Dramas by Euripides – Damian Pierzak: A Reading of Greek Myth in Cicero’s
Speeches. The Case of Medea – Soledad Llano Berini:
The Use of Myths in Humanisitc Satire. The Example of Antonio Vinciguerra – Katarzyna Chiżyńska: Telemach(us) - Telmah - Hamlet. The Myth of Telemachy in the
Hamlet by William Shakespeare – Raffaele Ruggiero: Orpheus’ Myth in Vico – Agata Buda: The Time and Space of Antiquity in
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde – Tiziana Ottaviano:
Gabriele D’Annunzio and Apollo – Tomasz Kaczmarek: Cain, or the Secularization of Myth – Katarzyna Wojtysiak-Wawrzyniak: Juan Antonio Castro
Tauromachy. Between the Myth and the Art of Corrida – Maria Judyta Woźniak: ‘Exiled Arcadians’ - Presence of Myth in the Poetry of Antonio Colinas and Zbigniew Herbert – Dorota Jędraś: The Myth of Atreides in
Letter to Orestes and
Supper by Iakovos Kambanellis – Maria Pavlou: Mythical and Sartrian Influences in Yannis Ritsos’
The Fourth Dimension – Anna Zaorska: About the Politicization of the Antigone Myth by Rolf Hochhuth – Victoria Yefymenko: The Myth of the Minotaur in Postmodern Narrative Space – Justyna Biernat: Mythical Transformations.
(A)Pollonia, directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski towards Ancient Tradition – Małgorzata Budzowska: Ancient Myth in Postmodern Theatre – Monika Wąsik: Odyssey Europe. Contemporary German Theatre and the Problem of Immigration – Agnieszka Liszka-Drążkiewicz: The Story of Orestes as a Reflection of the Transformations of Modern Society in
Pylades by Pier Paolo Pasolini – Anna Miller-Klejsa:
The Night of the Shooting Stars - in the Circle of Myths and Fairy Tales – Karolina Prymlewicz: Narcissus - from Myth to Treatise. André Gide’s Theory of Symbol – Vassiliki Malatra: The Transmission of the Zodiac Signs from the Eastern to the Western World: the Case of the Wall-Paintings in Tavant, France – Agnieszka Gralińska-Toborek: An Empty Myth – the Aesthetic Reception of Antiquity in Contemporary Art – Joanna Ślosarska: Polish Reception of the Myth of Artemis and Acteon based on Selected Examples – Damian Stocking/Sidney Mitsunaga-Whitten: The «Myth-ing» Link: The Postmodern Community and Classical Myth in John Barth’s
Menelaiad – Elizavetta Koemets: Grimly Reaping: Melancholy and the Creative Harvest – Adriana Grzelak-Krzymianowska: The Nine Muses and Their Modern Existence – Artur Gałkowski: Mythonyms as the Key to Mythological Phraseology: An Interlinguistic Approach – Francoise Lecocq: The Dark Phoenix: Rewriting An Ancient Myth in Today’s Popular Culture.
