The reception of the legend of Hero and Leander / / by Brian Murdoch.

• Superior document: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception; volume19
• VerfasserIn: Murdoch, Brian, 1944-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception; volume19.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (421 pages).

This book is a study of the literary reception of the originally Greek love-story of Hero and Leander, examining the nature of the tale and demonstrating its longevity and huge popularity from classical times to the present, in a great variety of different genres. Chapters consider the classical versions (Ovid, Musaios, Martial), medieval and renaissance versions in various European languages, folk and literary ballads (and even a pop song), the lyric, dramatic versions, settings to music, burlesques and travesties in all genres, modern reflections of the story in (experimental) literary forms.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page / Brian Murdoch -- Dedication / Brian Murdoch -- Epigraph / Brian Murdoch -- Preface / BM -- Hero and Leander: Constants and Questions / Brian Murdoch -- The Classical World / Brian Murdoch -- Ovid (Often) Moralised: the Middle Ages / Brian Murdoch -- Heroical Poems: the Renaissance and After / Brian Murdoch -- Ballads, Folk and Literary / Brian Murdoch -- Focal Points: Reflections in the Lyric / Brian Murdoch -- The Challenge of Drama / Brian Murdoch -- The Waves of Sea and Love: Grillparzer and After / Brian Murdoch -- Choice Pieces of Drollery: the Burlesques / Brian Murdoch -- Set to Music: Cantatas, Operas, and Musical Plays / Brian Murdoch -- Modern Experiments / Brian Murdoch -- Some Shallow Story of Deep Love? / Brian Murdoch -- Back Matter -- Bibliography / Brian Murdoch -- Index / Brian Murdoch.