The Staying Power of Thetis : : Allusion, Interaction, and Reception from Homer to the 21st Century / / ed. by Maciej Paprocki, Gary Patrick Vos, David John Wright.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Abad Del Vecchio, Julene,; Brown, Amelia R.,; Burton, Diana,; Cannavale, Serena,; Cingano, Ettore,; Guzman, Bettina Joy de,; Heslin, Peter,; Jonge, Nile de,; Konstantinou, Ariadne,; Martorana, Simona,; Massetti, Laura,; Mawford, Katharine,; Milo, Daniela,; Paprocki, Maciej,; Scheijnen, Tine,; Silverblank, Hannah,; Slatkin, Laura M.,; Vos, Gary P.,; Wright, David J.,; Yamagata, Naoko,
• HerausgeberIn: Paprocki, Maciej,; Vos, Gary Patrick,; Wright, David John,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 140
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XII, 524 p.)

In 1991, Laura Slatkin published The Power of Thetis: Allusion and Interpretation in the Iliad, in which she argued that Homer knowingly situated the storyworld of the Iliad against the backdrop of an older world of mythos by which the events in the Iliad are explained and given traction. Slatkin’s focus was on Achilles’ mother, Thetis: an ostensibly marginal and powerless goddess, Thetis nevertheless drives the plot of the Iliad, being allusively credited with the power to uphold or challenge the rule of Zeus. Now, almost thirty years after Slatkin’s publication, this timely volume re-examines depictions and receptions of this ambiguous goddess, in works ranging from archaic Greek poetry to twenty-first century cinema. Twenty authors build upon Slatkin’s readings to explore Thetis and multiple roles she played in Western literature, art, material culture, religion, and myth. Ever the shapeshifter, Thetis has been and continues to be reconceptualised: supporter or opponent of Zeus’ regime, model bride or unwilling victim of Peleus’ rape, good mother or child-murderess, figure of comedy or monstrous witch. Hers is an enduring power of transformation, resonating within art and literature.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Introduction: The Power of Thetis, 30 Years On -- Part I: The Powers of Thetis - Strife, Succession, and Cosmic Balance -- The Power and Failures of Thetis in Early Poetic Traditions and Beyond -- The Rape and Binding of Thetis in Its Mythological Context -- Divine Even If Not Olympian: The Mobility of Thetis in the Iliad -- Suggestions and Themes in Thetis’ rhesis in Euripides’ Andromache -- Thetis in Callimachus’ Hymn to Apollo: Dynasty and Succession -- Secrets and Lies: The Power of Thetis in Roman Culture -- Neque ... sine numine uincis: Thetis, Medusa and (Literary) Creation in Ovid’s Metamorphoses -- Part II: Thetis’ Family Matters -- In the Bosom of the Goddess: Thetis and Dionysus in Il. 6.130–140 -- Motherhood and Shapeshifting in Depictions of Thetis -- Forging Families with Thetis: “Tentacular Thinking” and Queer Kinship in Homer’s Iliad -- Mourning Mothers and Premature Deaths: Thetis’ Example in Greek Funerary Epigrams -- Part III: Material Culture -- ‘A Dread and Revered Goddess’: Thetis and Other Gods in Attic Vases -- Saviour Mermaids of the Ancient Mediterranean: Thetis and the Nereids as Patrons of Ancient Greek Mariners -- Part IV: Reception – Thetis’ Aftermaths -- The Wicked Witch of the West? Thetis’ Controversial Transformations in 14th- Century Middle English Vernacular Poetry -- Reading Thetis in Tirso de Molina’s El Aquiles -- Thetis and the Shield of Achilles — Reading the Iliad with Auden -- Thetis of the Silver Screen: The Vengeful and Cosmic Goddess in Clash of the Titans -- Sea Witches in Exile: Thetidean Figures in Disney’s The Little Mermaid (1989/2008) and Pirates of the Caribbean (2006/2007) -- Reception in Performance: Interview and Poetry -- Afterword to the Staying Power of Thetis -- List of Contributors -- Index Locorum -- Subject Index