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The Modern Hercules
The Modern Hercules explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles - the Roman Hercules - in western culture from the nineteenth century to the present day, exploring the hero's transformations of identity and significance in a wide range of media.
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Herakles Inside and Outside the Church
Herakles Inside and Outside the Church explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles (the Roman Hercules) in the predominantly Christian cultures which succeeded classical antiquity in Europe, grappling with the question of his significance in the post-classical world.
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Iphigenia in Tauris
\"Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris' is the tale of how two children of Agamemnon whose lives have been blighted in youth are brought together for mutual salvation and for the healing of the calamitous house of Pelops. Aristotle makes more complimentary references to the play than any other Attic tragedy, apart from Sophocles' Oedipus the King--and even less favourable critics recognize the extraordinary skill of its construction. Comprising an introduction, the Greek text, and commentary, this volume is designed to be useful to a wide range of readers, facilitating a close and accurate reading of one of Euripides' more frequently studied plays. The introduction explores earlier and later reinterpretations of the story of Iphigenia, the adoption of narrative motifs in comedy, and the ancient novel, differing critical assessments, and more technical information on metre and textual transmission. The commentary features guidance on vocabulary and syntax, while more advanced material, including textual discussion, is included in the notes\"--Back cover.
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Ovid's Tragic Heroines
Ovid's Tragic Heroines expands
our understanding of Ovid's incorporation of Greek generic codes
and the tragic heroines, Phaedra and Medea, while offering a new
perspective on the Roman poet's persistent interest in these two
characters and their paradigms. Ovid presents these two
Attic tragic heroines as symbols of different passions that are
defined by the specific combination of their gender and generic
provenance. Their failure to be understood and their subsequent
punishment are constructed as the result of their female \"nature,\"
and are generically marked as \"tragic.\" Ovid's masculine poetic
voice, by contrast, is given free rein to oscillate and play with
poetic possibilities.
Jessica A. Westerhold focuses on select passages from the poems
Ars Amatoria , Heroides , and
Metamorphoses . Building on existing scholarship, she
analyzes the dynamic nature of generic categories and codes in
Ovid's poetry, especially the interplay of elegy and epic. Further,
her analysis of Ovid's reception applies the idea of the abject to
elucidate Ovid's process of constructing gender and genre in his
poetry.
Ovid's Tragic Heroines incorporates established
theories of the performativity of sex, gender, and kinship roles to
understand the continued maintenance of the normative and abject
subject positions Ovid's poetry creates. The resulting analysis
reveals how Ovid's Phaedras and Medeas offer alternatives both to
traditional gender roles and to material appropriate to a poem's
genre, ultimately using the tragic code to introduce a new
perspective to epic and elegy.
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The Exemplary Hercules from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment and Beyond
The Exemplary Hercules explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles - the Roman Hercules - in European culture from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment and beyond, raising questions about his role as model of the princely ruler.
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Jim Henson's Storyteller: Giants #4
In the final Giants tale, Feifei Ruan tells the Arabic tale of \"The Fisherman and The Giant,\" wherein a vengeful king has transformed his people into fish, and a fisherman must work to release the curse.
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