Son of Classics and Comics presents thirteen original studies of representations of the ancient world in the medium of comics. Building on the foundation established by their groundbreaking Classics and Comics (OUP, 2011), Kovacs and Marshall have gathered a wide range of studies with a new, global perspective.
Son of Classics and Comics presents thirteen original studies of representations of the ancient world in the medium of comics. Building on the foundation established by their groundbreaking Classics and Comics (OUP, 2011), Kovacs and Marshall have gathered a wide range of studies with a new, global perspective.
George Kovacs is Assistant Professor of Ancient History and Classics at Trent University in Peterborough, Canada. C. W. Marshall is Professor of Greek at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Together, they have co-edited Classics and Comics (OUP, 2011) and No Laughing Matter: Studies in Athenian Comedy (BCP, 2012).
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Introduction. C. W. Marshall and George Kovacs Postmodern Odysseys 1. Odysseus and The Infinite Horizon C. W. Marshall 2. Mythic Totality in Age of Bronze George Kovacs 3. Classical Symbolism in Asterios Polyp Abram Fox and HyoSil Suzy Hwang-Eschelbacher East's Wests 4. Mecha in Olympus: Masamune Shirow's Appleseed Gideon Nisbet 5. [un]Reading the Odyssey in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Nicholas Theisen 6. Xerxes, Lost City in the Desert: Classical Allusions in Fullmetal Alchemist Sara Raup Johnson All Gaul 7. Re-inventing the Barbarian: Classical Ethnographic Perceptions in Astérix Eran Almagor 8. Asterix and the Dream of Autochthony Stuart Barnett 9. We're not in Gaul Anymore: the Global Translation of Astérix Siobhàn McElduff Modern Classics 10. Classical Allusion in Modern British Political Cartoons Ian Runacres and Michael K. Mackenzie 11. Eliot with an Epic, Rowson with a Comic: Recycling Foundational Narratives Frederick Williams and Edward Brunner 12. Ozymandias the Dreamer: Watchmen and Alexander the Great Matthew Taylor 13. And They Call That Poison Food: Desire and Traumatic Spectatorship in the Lucifer Retelling of Genesis Kate Polak Bibliography
Introduction. C. W. Marshall and George Kovacs Postmodern Odysseys 1. Odysseus and The Infinite Horizon C. W. Marshall 2. Mythic Totality in Age of Bronze George Kovacs 3. Classical Symbolism in Asterios Polyp Abram Fox and HyoSil Suzy Hwang-Eschelbacher East's Wests 4. Mecha in Olympus: Masamune Shirow's Appleseed Gideon Nisbet 5. [un]Reading the Odyssey in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Nicholas Theisen 6. Xerxes, Lost City in the Desert: Classical Allusions in Fullmetal Alchemist Sara Raup Johnson All Gaul 7. Re-inventing the Barbarian: Classical Ethnographic Perceptions in Astérix Eran Almagor 8. Asterix and the Dream of Autochthony Stuart Barnett 9. We're not in Gaul Anymore: the Global Translation of Astérix Siobhàn McElduff Modern Classics 10. Classical Allusion in Modern British Political Cartoons Ian Runacres and Michael K. Mackenzie 11. Eliot with an Epic, Rowson with a Comic: Recycling Foundational Narratives Frederick Williams and Edward Brunner 12. Ozymandias the Dreamer: Watchmen and Alexander the Great Matthew Taylor 13. And They Call That Poison Food: Desire and Traumatic Spectatorship in the Lucifer Retelling of Genesis Kate Polak Bibliography
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