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The reception of ancient virtues and vices in modern popular culture : beauty, bravery, blood and glory /
In 'Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture', Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice offer a comprehensive collection of chapters dealing with the reception of antiquity in popular media of the modern era (19th-21st centuries). These media include theatrical plays, cinematic representat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden, The Netherlands :
Brill,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Metaforms ;
v. 11. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Re-enacting Ancient Virtues and Vices
- SECTION 1 Staging Ancient Virtues and Vices
- 1. House of Atreus as a Reflection of Contemporary Evil: Performance Reception and The Oresteia / Lisa Maurice
- 2. Thornton Wilder's The Alcestiad or A Life in the Sun / Hanna M. Roisman
- 3. Herodotus on Stage: The Modern Greek Play "Candaules' Wife" by Margarita Liberaki / Ariadne Konstantinou
- SECTION 2 Screening Ancient Virtues and Vices
- 4. Can You Dig It? Heroes and Villains from Xenophon's Anabasis to Walter Hill's The Warriors (1979) / Eran Almagor
- 5. Hercules' Choice: Virtue, Vice and the Hero of the Twentieth-Century Screen / Emma Stafford
- 6. Deconstructing Oedipus: Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite and the Classical Tradition / Anna Foka
- 7. Caligula and Drusilla in the Modern Imagination / Emma Southon
- 8. "Salome, Nice Girl": Rita Hayworth and the Problem of the Hollywood Biblical Vamp / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- 9. Representations of the Christian Female Virtue in Roman Film Epics: The Sign of the Cross (1932) and Quo Vadis (1951) / Panayiota Mini
- pt. 2 Ancient Virtues and Vices in the Modern World
- SECTION 1 Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Greece
- 10. Philip, Alexander and Macedonia: Between Greek Virtue and Barbarian Pleasure / Maria Pretzler
- 11. From Giscard d'Estaing to Syntagma Square: The Use and Abuse of Ancient Greece in the Debate on Greece's EU Membership / Luca Asmonti
- 12. Great God Pan Never Dies! / Aggeliki Koumanoudi
- SECTION 2 Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Jewish Existence
- 13. In These Days, in That Season: The Nationalization of the Maccabees / David M. Schaps
- 14. Double Edged Sword
- The Power of Bar-Kosibah: From Rabbinic Literature to Popular Culture / Haim Weiss
- 15. What Has Rome to Do with Jerusalem? The Reception of Turnus Rufus and Rabbi Akivah in the Talmud and in Contemporary Israel / Gabriel Danzig.