Rewriting the ancient world : Greeks, Romans, Jews and Christians in modern popular fiction /

Rewriting the ancient world : Greeks, Romans, Jews and Christians in modern popular fiction /

Rewriting the Ancient World looks at how and why the ancient world, including not only the Greeks and Romans, but also Jews and Christians, has been rewritten in popular fictions of the modern world. The fascination that ancient society holds for later periods in the Western world is as noticeable i...

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Main Author: Maurice, Lisa, 1968-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017.

Series: Metaforms 10.
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2017, ISBN: 9789004327986.

Subjects:

Popular literature > English-speaking countries > History and criticism.
English fiction > History and criticism.
American fiction > History and criticism.
Historical fiction > History and criticism.
Comparative literature > Classical and modern.
Civilization, Ancient, in literature.
Greeks in literature.
Romans in literature.
Jews in literature.
Christians in literature.

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Call Number: PR830.P68

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction: The Ancient World and Popular Fiction /
  • Lisa Maurice
  • From I, Claudius to Private Eyes: Rome and the Detective in Popular Fiction /
  • Lisa Maurice
  • A Roman and a Foreigner: Lindsey Davis's New Roman Detective Series /
  • Anat Koplowitz-Breier
  • "An Open Account from the Past Always Needs to be Settled": Chimaira (2001) / The Ancient Curse (2010) and Receiving the Past /
  • Claudia Fratini
  • Going Home: Xenophon's Anabasis in Sol Yurick's The Warriors (1965) /
  • Eran Almagor
  • The Eagle and the Mockingjay: Reality Television as Roman Gladiator Culture /
  • Dor Yaccobi
  • "Atalanta Just Married": A Case Study in Greek Mythology-Based Fan Fiction /
  • Amanda Potter
  • The Loves of Achilles: From Epic to Popular Fiction /
  • Anne Sinha
  • "Home Is Behind, The World Ahead": Reading Tolkien's The Hobbit as a Story of Xenia or Homeric Hospitality /
  • Hamish Williams
  • Cupid and Psyche: A Love Story (?) in Comics and Children's Literature /
  • Lily Glasner
  • Sadducee and Pharisee in "The Antagonists" by E.K. Gann /
  • Haim Perlmutter
  • Emotion and Reception of the Ancient World in Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) /
  • Emily Chow-Kambitsch
  • Jewish Women Writing Historical Novels Based on Rabbinic Sources /
  • Tal Ilan
  • Some Concluding Thoughts /
  • Lisa Maurice
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Subjects
  • Index of Ancient Sources.