The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth presents forty chapters about the unique and terrifying creatures from myths of the long-ago Near East and Mediterranean world, featuring authoritative contributions by many of the top international experts on ancient monsters and the monstrous.
The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth presents forty chapters about the unique and terrifying creatures from myths of the long-ago Near East and Mediterranean world, featuring authoritative contributions by many of the top international experts on ancient monsters and the monstrous.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Debbie Felton is Professor of Classics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research focuses on folklore in classical antiquity, especially tales of the monstrous and supernatural. Her books include Haunted Greece and Rome (1999), the edited volumes Landscapes of Dread in Classical Antiquity (2018) and A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in Antiquity (2021), and Monsters and Monarchs: Serial Killers in Classical Myth and History (2021). She enjoys bringing her research into the public sphere, and has appeared in various media (newspapers, radio, tv, blogs, podcasts, webinars) in the USA and Europe.
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* Introduction: Monster Theory and Classical Antiquity * Part I: Monsters in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East * 1: Fiona Mitchell: Monsters in Creation Narratives of Ancient Greece and Rome * 2: Madadh Richey: Monsters in Ancient Near Eastern Myth and Religion * 3: Leanna Boychenko: Spawned from the Nile: Egyptian Monsters in Greco-Roman Culture * 4: William Brockliss: Typhoeus, Agent of Disorder * 5: Christina A. Salowey: The Giants: Children of Gaia * 6: Daniel Ogden: Dragons * 7: Dominic Ingemark and Camilla Asplund Ingemark: The 'Monster-Harbouring Sea': Sea Monsters and Sea Serpents in Ancient Myth * 8: Dunstan Lowe: Art Horror: The Gorgons and Medusa * 9: R. Scott Smith: The Chimaera * 10: Derrek Joyce: Cerberus, Hound of Hades * 11: Susan Deacy: Down the Sink Hole: The Lernaean Hydra * 12: Mercedes Aguirre and Richard Buxton: Cyclopes * 13: Marianne Hopman: Scylla and Charybdis * 14: Ryan Denson: Sirens and Harpies: The Enchanting and Repulsive Avian Monsters of Classical Antiquity * 15: Carolina López-Ruiz: The Sphinx * 16: Stephen M. Trzaskoma: The Minotaur * 17: Emma Aston: Human-Animal Hybrids * 18: Genevieve Liveley: Monstrous Metamorphoses: Ovid and the Art of Making and Unmaking Monsters * Part II: Monsters in Ancient Folklore and Ethnography * 19: Janek Kucharski: Ancient Bogeys: Lamia, Mormo, Empousa, Gello, and Others * 20: Julia Doroszewska: Ghosts: The Restless and Unpleasant Dead * 21: Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr.: The Monstrous Animals and Animal Monsters of Ancient Greece * 22: John B. Friedman: Reading Monstrous Peoples in Ancient Greece and Rome * Part III: Interpreting the Monsters * 23: Simon Oswald: Monumental Monsters * 24: Andrea Murace: Cryptids in Greek Art * 25: Lorenz Winkler-Horäek: Monsters in Ancient Greek Art * 26: Greta Hawes: Rationalizing Mythic Monsters in Antiquity * 27: Vanda Zajko: Beyond Othering : Classical Monstrosity and Feminism in the Twenty-First Century * 28: Jennifer Larson: Gods and Monsters: Cognitive Approaches to the Monstrous * 29: Eirini Apanomeritaki: Monsters of the Inner World: Psychoanalytic Approaches * 30: Hannah Silverblank and Marchella Ward: Monsters and Disability: The Violence of Interpreting Bodies in Aristotle and Homer * Part IV: The Reception of Classical Monsters * 31: Peter Adrian Behravesh: Pearls from a Dark Cloud: Monsters in Persian Myth * 32: Arngrímur Vídalín: Plinian Monsters in Old Norse Encyclopedic Literature * 33: Antonella Sciancalepore: Ancient Monsters in Medieval Literature and Art * 34: Luba Freedman: The Revival of Classical Monsters in the Italian Renaissance * 35: Persephone Braham: Classical Monsters in Latin American Cultures * 36: Justine McConnell: Recasting Monsters in Postcolonial Art and Literature * 37: Katarzyna Marciniak: Classical Monsters in Children s and YA Literature * 38: Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Jesse Weiner, and Brett M. Rogers: Ancient Monsters in Modern Speculative Fiction * 39: Liz Gloyn: Classical Monsters in Modern Popular Culture: A Case Study in Fan Fiction * 40: Debbie Felton: Ancient Monsters in Modern Science
* Introduction: Monster Theory and Classical Antiquity * Part I: Monsters in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East * 1: Fiona Mitchell: Monsters in Creation Narratives of Ancient Greece and Rome * 2: Madadh Richey: Monsters in Ancient Near Eastern Myth and Religion * 3: Leanna Boychenko: Spawned from the Nile: Egyptian Monsters in Greco-Roman Culture * 4: William Brockliss: Typhoeus, Agent of Disorder * 5: Christina A. Salowey: The Giants: Children of Gaia * 6: Daniel Ogden: Dragons * 7: Dominic Ingemark and Camilla Asplund Ingemark: The 'Monster-Harbouring Sea': Sea Monsters and Sea Serpents in Ancient Myth * 8: Dunstan Lowe: Art Horror: The Gorgons and Medusa * 9: R. Scott Smith: The Chimaera * 10: Derrek Joyce: Cerberus, Hound of Hades * 11: Susan Deacy: Down the Sink Hole: The Lernaean Hydra * 12: Mercedes Aguirre and Richard Buxton: Cyclopes * 13: Marianne Hopman: Scylla and Charybdis * 14: Ryan Denson: Sirens and Harpies: The Enchanting and Repulsive Avian Monsters of Classical Antiquity * 15: Carolina López-Ruiz: The Sphinx * 16: Stephen M. Trzaskoma: The Minotaur * 17: Emma Aston: Human-Animal Hybrids * 18: Genevieve Liveley: Monstrous Metamorphoses: Ovid and the Art of Making and Unmaking Monsters * Part II: Monsters in Ancient Folklore and Ethnography * 19: Janek Kucharski: Ancient Bogeys: Lamia, Mormo, Empousa, Gello, and Others * 20: Julia Doroszewska: Ghosts: The Restless and Unpleasant Dead * 21: Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr.: The Monstrous Animals and Animal Monsters of Ancient Greece * 22: John B. Friedman: Reading Monstrous Peoples in Ancient Greece and Rome * Part III: Interpreting the Monsters * 23: Simon Oswald: Monumental Monsters * 24: Andrea Murace: Cryptids in Greek Art * 25: Lorenz Winkler-Horäek: Monsters in Ancient Greek Art * 26: Greta Hawes: Rationalizing Mythic Monsters in Antiquity * 27: Vanda Zajko: Beyond Othering : Classical Monstrosity and Feminism in the Twenty-First Century * 28: Jennifer Larson: Gods and Monsters: Cognitive Approaches to the Monstrous * 29: Eirini Apanomeritaki: Monsters of the Inner World: Psychoanalytic Approaches * 30: Hannah Silverblank and Marchella Ward: Monsters and Disability: The Violence of Interpreting Bodies in Aristotle and Homer * Part IV: The Reception of Classical Monsters * 31: Peter Adrian Behravesh: Pearls from a Dark Cloud: Monsters in Persian Myth * 32: Arngrímur Vídalín: Plinian Monsters in Old Norse Encyclopedic Literature * 33: Antonella Sciancalepore: Ancient Monsters in Medieval Literature and Art * 34: Luba Freedman: The Revival of Classical Monsters in the Italian Renaissance * 35: Persephone Braham: Classical Monsters in Latin American Cultures * 36: Justine McConnell: Recasting Monsters in Postcolonial Art and Literature * 37: Katarzyna Marciniak: Classical Monsters in Children s and YA Literature * 38: Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Jesse Weiner, and Brett M. Rogers: Ancient Monsters in Modern Speculative Fiction * 39: Liz Gloyn: Classical Monsters in Modern Popular Culture: A Case Study in Fan Fiction * 40: Debbie Felton: Ancient Monsters in Modern Science
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