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Contents List of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION: Muthoi in Continuity and Variation Roger D. Woodard PART 1: SOURCES AND INTERPRETATIONS 1. Lyric and Greek Myth Gregory Nagy 2. Homer and Greek Myth; Gregory Nagy 3. Hesiod and Greek Myth Roger D. Woodard 4. Tragedy and Greek Myth Richard Buxton 5. Aristophanes and Greek Myth Angus Bowie 6. Plato and Greek Myth Diskin Clay 7. Hellenistic Mythographers Carolyn Higbie PART 2: RESPONSE, INTEGRATION, REPRESENTATION 8. Greek Myth and Greek Religion Claude Calame 9. Myth in Greek Art and Architecture Jenifer Neils 10. The Landscapes of Greek Myth Ada Cohen 11. Politics and Greek Myth Jonathan M. Hall 12. Ovid and Greek Myth A. J. Boyle PART 3: RECEPTION 13. Women and Greek Myth Vanda Zajko 14. Greek Myth in Medieval and Renaissance Literature H. David brumble 15. Greek Myth in English and American Literature Sarah Annes Brown 16. Greek Myth on the Screen Martin M. Winkler Illustrations 1. A Fox Telling Aesop Fables; Red-Figure Kylix of the Bologna Painter from Vulci 2. The Charioteer of the Phaedrus; Andrea Sansovino 3. Deeds of Theseus; Red-Figure Cup Attributed to the Codrus Painter of Vulci 4. Tyrannicides; Casts of Roman Marble Copies after Bronze Originals by Kritios and Nesiotes 5. Departure of a Hero; Late Geometric Spouted Crater from Thebes 6. Death of Priam; Black-Figure Amphora by Lydos from Vulci 7. Return of Hephaestus. Red-Figure Skyphos Attributed to the Curti Painter 8. Return of Hephaestus. Red-Figure Volute-Crater by Polion from Spina 9. Heracles and the Nemean Lion. Metope from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia 10. Birth of Erichthonius. Red-Figure Squat Lekythos Attributed to the Meidias Painter 11. Battle of Athena and a Giant. Red-Figure Lekythos Attributed to Douris 12. Naval Fresco from Akrotiri 13. Nymphs and Pan. Marble Votive Relief 14. The Blinding of Polyphemus. Fragment from a Vase 15. Meeting of Odyssey and Nausicaa. Lid of a Red-Figure Pyxis Attributed to Aison 16. Abduction of the Leucippids by the Dioscuri and the Garden of the Hesperids. Red-Figure Hydria by the Meidias Painter 17. Odysseus' Descent to the Underworld. Red-Figure Pelike Attriibuted to the Lykaon Painter 18. The Suicide of Ajax. Black-Figure Amphora by Exekias 19. Book 2, Emblem 2, in Frances Quarles, Emblemes 20. "Venus," from the Copenhagen Planet Book. See Filedt Kok (1985) for a similar blockbook, by the Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet 21. Clash of the Titans. Zeus and the "Arena of Life" 22. Jason and the Argonauts. Hera Observing Jason and Medea on the Olympian Screen 23. Jason and the Argonauts. Talos Towering Above the Argonauts 24. Hercules and the Queen of Lydia. Hercules Prior to Unchaining Himself 25. Hercules Conquers Atlantis. The Aftermath of the Massacre in the Palace of Atlantis. Note the Partially Visible Panther Reliefs on the Walls and the Chariot with the Twelve Stallions in the Background Contributors ANGUS BOWIE is Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford and the Lobel Praelector in Classics. His publications include The Poetic Dialect of Sappho and Alcaeus (1981) and Aristophanes: Myth, Ritual and Comedy (1993). Dr. Bowie also serves as editor of the Journal of Hellenic Studies. A. J. BOYLE is Professor of Classics at the University of Southern California. His recent publications include Tragic Seneca (1997), (with R.D. Woodard) Ovid's Fasti (2000), (with W.J. Dominik) Flavian Rome (2003), Ovid and the Monuments (2004), and Roman Tragedy (2006). Professor SARAH ANNES BROWN teaches at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. She is the author of The Metamorphosis of Ovid: From Chaucer to Ted Hughes (1999) and the co-editor (with Charles Martindale) of Nicholas Rowe's translation of Lucan's Pharsalia (1997). She has also published numerous shorter pieces on various aspects of classical reception, including articles on its relationship with queer theory and science fiction. She is currently editing a collection of essays, Tragedy in Transition, for Blackwell. H. DAVID BRUMBLE is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. Among his scholarly works are Classical Myths and Legends in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: A Dictionary of Allegorical Meanings (1998) and Street Gangs and Warrior Tribes (forthcoming). RICHARD BUXTON is Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Bristol. Among the works he has authored are Persuasion in Greek Tragedy (1982), Sophocles (1984; reprinted with Addenda 1995), Imaginary Greece: The Contexts of Mythology (1994), and The Complete World of Greek Mythology (2004). Professor Buxton is editor of From Myth to Reason? (1999) and Oxford Readings in Greek Religion (2000). CLAUDE CALAME is Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and Honorary Professor of Greek language and Literature at the University of Lausanne. In English he has published The Craft of Poetic Speech in Ancient Greece (1995), The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece (Press 1999), Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece (second edition 2001), Myth and History in Ancient Greece (2003), Masks of Authority. Fiction and Pragmatics in Ancient Greece (2005), and, on Greek mythology, Thésée et l'imaginaire athénien. Légende et culte en Grèce classique (second edition 1996) and Poétique des mythes dans la Grèce antique (2000). DISKIN CLAY is Professor of Classical Studies at Duke University. His interests have focused on the intersection of ancient poetry and philosophy. He is the author of many studies of the Platonic dialogues, Lucretius and Epicurus (1983), Platonic Questions: Dialogues with the Silent Philosopher (2000) and Archilochos Heros: The Cult of Poets in the Greek Polis (2004). At present he is working on a study of The Art of Hell: Reflections of Dante's Inferno in the Religious Art of Tuscany from the Early Trecento to 1579. ADA COHEN is an associate professor of Art History at Dartmouth College, with a focus on the arts of the ancient Mediterranean world. She has written essays on various aspects of Greek art, including gender and sexuality, myth, and landscape. She is author of The Alexander Mosaic: Stories of History and Defeat (1997) and co-editor of and contributor to Constructions of Childhood in the Ancient World (2007). She has recently completed a book on masculinity and power in late Classical and Hellenistic art titled Paradigms of Manhood: Art and Culture in the Times of Alexander the Great and is working on a study of feminine beauty in ancient Greece. JONATHAN M. HALL is the Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities, Professor and Chair of Classics, and Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity (1997), Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture (2002), and A History of the Archaic Greek World (2007). CAROLYN HIGBIE is Professor of Classics at the University of Buffalo (The State University of New York). Her scholarly work includes the book The Lindian Chronicle and the Greek Creation of their Past and the recent articles "The Bones of a Hero, the Ashes of a Politician: Athens, Salamis, and the Usable Past" (Classical Antiquity 16 (1997) 279--308) and "Craterus and the Use of Inscriptions in Ancient Scholarship" (TAPA 129 (1999) 43--83). GREGORY NAGY has been the Director of the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington DC since 2000, while continuing to teach half-time at the Harvard campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts as the Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature. Among the books he has authored are Greek Mythology and Poetics (1990), Pindar's Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past (1990), Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond (1996), Homeric Questions (1996), The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry (2nd ed., with new Introduction, 1999), Homeric Responses (2003), and Homer's Text and Language (2004). Forthcoming is Homer the Classic (2006), the book version of his 2002 Sather Classical Lectures at Berkeley. JENIFER NEILS is the Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History and Classics at Case Western Reserve University. She is the author of the Youthful Deeds of Theseus (1987) and The Parthenon Frieze (2001) and has organized two major exhibitions of Greek art: Goddess and Polis: The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens (1992) and Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical World (2003). Professor Neils has contributed several major entries to the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, and recently edited The Parthenon from Antiquity to the Present (2005). MARTIN M. WINKLER is professor of classics at George Mason University. He has published books and articles on Roman literature, the classical tradition, and classical and medieval mythology in film. He has edited the essay collections Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema (2001), Gladiator: Film and History (2004), Troy: From Homer's Iliad to Hollywood Epic (2006), and Spartacus: Film and History (2007). ROGER D. WOODARD is the Andrew V. V. Raymond Professor of the Classics and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Buffalo (The State University of New York). Among his more recent publications are Greek Writing from Knossos to Homer: A Linguistic Interpretation of the Origin of the Greek Alphabet and the Continuity of Ancient Greek Literacy (1997), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages (2004), Ovid: Fasti (with A. J. Boyle, Revised edition, 2004), and Indo-European Sacred Space: Vedic and Roman Cult (2006). VANDA ZAJKO is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol, UK. She has wide- ranging interests in the reception of classical myth and literature, particularly in the 20th Century. Recent publications include 'Homer and Ulysses' in The Cambridge Companion to Homer (2004), 'Narratives of Tragic Predicaments: Frankenstein and Prometheus Bound' in The Blackwell Companion to Tragedy (2007), 'What Difference Was Made?': Feminist Models of Reception' in A Companion to Classical Receptions, Blackwell (2007). She is co-editor of Laughing with Medusa: Classical Myth and Feminist Thought, Oxford (2006). Acknowledgements The editor would like to express his appreciation first and foremost to the contributors to this Cambridge Companion to Greek Myth, distinguished scholars all, without whose dedicated and expert efforts this volume could not have taken shape. I wish too to thank Beatrice Rehl and her staff at the New York office of Cambridge University Press for their characteristic efficiency and professionalism. Thanks go also to Professor Amy Graves for assisting Calame and Woodard in producing an English translation of Chapter 8.
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Mythology, Greek.