The reception of ancient virtues and vices in modern popular culture : beauty, bravery, blood and glory / / edited by Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice.
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, Telev...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2017. |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Metaforms
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (438 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice
- Re-enacting Ancient Virtues and Vices / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice
- Staging Ancient Virtues and Vices / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice
- The House of Atreus as a Reflection of Contemporary Evil: Performance Reception and The Oresteia / Lisa Maurice
- Thornton Wilder’s The Alcestiad or A Life in the Sun / Hanna M. Roisman
- Herodotus on Stage: The Modern Greek Play “Candaules’ Wife” by Margarita Liberaki / Ariadne Konstantinou
- Screening Ancient Virtues and Vices / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice
- Can You Dig It? Heroes and Villains from Xenophon’s Anabasis to Walter Hill’s The Warriors (1979) / Eran Almagor
- Hercules’ Choice: Virtue, Vice and the Hero of the Twentieth-Century Screen / Emma Stafford
- Deconstructing Oedipus: Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite and the Classical Tradition / Anna Foka
- Caligula and Drusilla in the Modern Imagination / Emma Southon
- “Salome, Nice Girl”: Rita Hayworth and the Problem of the Hollywood Biblical Vamp / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- Representations of the Christian Female Virtue in Roman Film Epics: The Sign of the Cross (1932) and Quo Vadis (1951) / Panayiota Mini
- Ancient Virtues and Vices in the Modern World / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice
- Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Greece / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice
- Philip, Alexander and Macedonia: Between Greek Virtue and Barbarian Pleasure / Maria Pretzler
- From Giscard d’Estaing to Syntagma Square: The Use and Abuse of Ancient Greece in the Debate on Greece’s eu Membership / Luca Asmonti
- The Great God Pan Never Dies! / Aggeliki Koumanoudi
- Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Jewish Existence / Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice
- In These Days, in That Season: The Nationalization of the Maccabees / David M. Schaps
- A Double Edged Sword—The Power of Bar-Kosibah: From Rabbinic Literature to Popular Culture / Haim Weiss
- What Has Rome to Do with Jerusalem? The Reception of Turnus Rufus and Rabbi Akivah in the Talmud and in Contemporary Israel / Gabriel Danzig.