The reception of ancient virtues and vices in modern popular culture : beauty, bravery, blood and glory /
The reception of ancient virtues and vices in modern popular culture : beauty, bravery, blood and glory /
edited by Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice.
- 1 online resource.
- Metaforms: studies in the reception of classical antiquity ; v. 11 .
- Metaforms 11. Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2017, ISBN: 9789004327986. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture / Re-enacting Ancient Virtues and Vices / Staging Ancient Virtues and Vices / The House of Atreus as a Reflection of Contemporary Evil: Performance Reception and The Oresteia / Thornton Wilder’s The Alcestiad or A Life in the Sun / Herodotus on Stage: The Modern Greek Play “Candaules’ Wife” by Margarita Liberaki / Screening Ancient Virtues and Vices / Can You Dig It? Heroes and Villains from Xenophon’s Anabasis to Walter Hill’s The Warriors (1979) / Hercules’ Choice: Virtue, Vice and the Hero of the Twentieth-Century Screen / Deconstructing Oedipus: Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite and the Classical Tradition / Caligula and Drusilla in the Modern Imagination / “Salome, Nice Girl”: Rita Hayworth and the Problem of the Hollywood Biblical Vamp / Representations of the Christian Female Virtue in Roman Film Epics: The Sign of the Cross (1932) and Quo Vadis (1951) / Ancient Virtues and Vices in the Modern World / Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Greece / Philip, Alexander and Macedonia: Between Greek Virtue and Barbarian Pleasure / From Giscard d’Estaing to Syntagma Square: The Use and Abuse of Ancient Greece in the Debate on Greece’s eu Membership / The Great God Pan Never Dies! / Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Jewish Existence / In These Days, in That Season: The Nationalization of the Maccabees / A Double Edged Sword—The Power of Bar-Kosibah: From Rabbinic Literature to Popular Culture / What Has Rome to Do with Jerusalem? The Reception of Turnus Rufus and Rabbi Akivah in the Talmud and in Contemporary Israel / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- Lisa Maurice -- Hanna M. Roisman -- Ariadne Konstantinou -- Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- Eran Almagor -- Emma Stafford -- Anna Foka -- Emma Southon -- Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones -- Panayiota Mini -- Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- Maria Pretzler -- Luca Asmonti -- Aggeliki Koumanoudi -- Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- David M. Schaps -- Haim Weiss -- Gabriel Danzig.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
In Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture , Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice offer a comprehensive collection of chapters dealing with the reception of antiquity in popular media of the modern era (19th-21st centuries). These media include theatrical plays, cinematic representations, Television drama, popular newspapers or journals, poems and outdoor festivals. For the first time in Classical Reception Studies, ancient Jewish literature and imagery are included in the discussion. The focus of the volume is both the continuity and variance between ancient and modern sets of values, which appear in the new interpretations of the ancient stories, figures and protagonists.
9789004347724
10.1163/9789004347724 DOI
2017040194
Civilization, Classical, in mass media.
P96.C575
809/.933583
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture / Re-enacting Ancient Virtues and Vices / Staging Ancient Virtues and Vices / The House of Atreus as a Reflection of Contemporary Evil: Performance Reception and The Oresteia / Thornton Wilder’s The Alcestiad or A Life in the Sun / Herodotus on Stage: The Modern Greek Play “Candaules’ Wife” by Margarita Liberaki / Screening Ancient Virtues and Vices / Can You Dig It? Heroes and Villains from Xenophon’s Anabasis to Walter Hill’s The Warriors (1979) / Hercules’ Choice: Virtue, Vice and the Hero of the Twentieth-Century Screen / Deconstructing Oedipus: Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite and the Classical Tradition / Caligula and Drusilla in the Modern Imagination / “Salome, Nice Girl”: Rita Hayworth and the Problem of the Hollywood Biblical Vamp / Representations of the Christian Female Virtue in Roman Film Epics: The Sign of the Cross (1932) and Quo Vadis (1951) / Ancient Virtues and Vices in the Modern World / Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Greece / Philip, Alexander and Macedonia: Between Greek Virtue and Barbarian Pleasure / From Giscard d’Estaing to Syntagma Square: The Use and Abuse of Ancient Greece in the Debate on Greece’s eu Membership / The Great God Pan Never Dies! / Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Jewish Existence / In These Days, in That Season: The Nationalization of the Maccabees / A Double Edged Sword—The Power of Bar-Kosibah: From Rabbinic Literature to Popular Culture / What Has Rome to Do with Jerusalem? The Reception of Turnus Rufus and Rabbi Akivah in the Talmud and in Contemporary Israel / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- Lisa Maurice -- Hanna M. Roisman -- Ariadne Konstantinou -- Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- Eran Almagor -- Emma Stafford -- Anna Foka -- Emma Southon -- Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones -- Panayiota Mini -- Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- Maria Pretzler -- Luca Asmonti -- Aggeliki Koumanoudi -- Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice -- David M. Schaps -- Haim Weiss -- Gabriel Danzig.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
In Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture , Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice offer a comprehensive collection of chapters dealing with the reception of antiquity in popular media of the modern era (19th-21st centuries). These media include theatrical plays, cinematic representations, Television drama, popular newspapers or journals, poems and outdoor festivals. For the first time in Classical Reception Studies, ancient Jewish literature and imagery are included in the discussion. The focus of the volume is both the continuity and variance between ancient and modern sets of values, which appear in the new interpretations of the ancient stories, figures and protagonists.
9789004347724
10.1163/9789004347724 DOI
2017040194
Civilization, Classical, in mass media.
P96.C575
809/.933583