Index

• Abraham
• abstruse and out of the way
• academic art
• Acusilaus of Argos
• Adlington, William

• The Adventures of Odysseus

• Adventures of Ulysses
• aesthetic innovation
• Agamemnon

• The Age of Chivalry and Legends of Charlemagne
• The Age of Fable

• Alain de Lille
• Alcestis
• alchemical interpretations
  • The Alchemical Theatre
  • alchemists
  • Arcana Arcanissima
  • Barlaam and Josaphat
  • Basset Jones
  • Chrysopoeia libri tres
  • exegesis of myths
    • Acxtelmeier
    • antimony regulus
    • Fabre du Bosquet
    • Fortuita
    • G.A. Augurelli
    • Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola
    • Metamorphosis
    • Michael Maier
    • Natale Conti
  • Gracum chemicum
  • Greek alchemy
  • John of Antioch
  • Marsilio Ficino
  • Michael Maier
  • philosophers’ stone
  • prisca sapientia
  • Rosa Alchemica
  • universal medicine

• The Alchemical Theatre

• Alexandre de Ville Dieu
• Alexandro ab Alexandro
• allegoresis
• allegorists
• Amazing Greek Myths of Wonder and Blunders
• American tale of half‐blood hero
• Amorosa Visione
• anarchic/anachronistic mash‐up
• ancient allegorists
• ancient fertility myths
• ancient mediterranean myths
• Anenes
• Anthon, Charles
• anthropological turn
• antimony regulus
• Apollo
• Apotheseos
• Apuleius
• Arachne’s weaving
• Arcana Arcanissima
• Archive of Our Own (AO3)
• Aristotelian dialectic and monastic
• ars dictaminis
• artes liberales
• Aryan myth
• Assault on New Olympus
• Astronomica
• Athenian Dionysia
• Athenian stage
• attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
• Atwood, Margaret
• audiences
• Augustine’s rhetoric
• A Wonder‐Book for Boys and Girls

• Babylon
• Bacchanalia
• Bacchus
• Bachofen, Johann Jakob
• Bachofen’s work
• Bacon’s mythography
• Bacon’s project
• Badoaro, Giacomo
• Beasts are rational
• Bede’s contemporary
• Bernardus Silvestris
• Bibliotecha Classica
• Bibliotheca
• Big Dumb Object

• The Big Fat Book of Greek Myths

• binocular vision
• Bion, Wilfred
• black‐clothed Pyrrhus

• The Blue Fairy Book

• Boccaccio, Giovanni
• Boiardo, Meatteo Maria
• Bollingen series
• Book of the City of Ladies
  • Part
  • Part
  • Part

• The Bride of the Innisfallen

• brilliant blue teeth
• British theatre
• Brooks, Peter
• Brown‐Grant, Rosalind
• Buber, Martin
• Bulfinch, Thomas
• Burkert, Walter
• Burnett, Francis Hodgson
• Byzantine believers

• Cahiers du Cinéma
• Campbell, Joseph
• camp half‐blood
• Camus, Albert. See Myth of Sisyphus
• carmen perpetuum
• Cartari’s iconographical approach
• Cartari, Vincenzo
• carthage walls
• Catalogue of Women
• Catasterisms
• Cave of the Nymphs
• Cerberus
• Cerealia
• chaste widow
• Children of the Dawn: Old Tales of Greece
• Christian doctrine
• Christian/post‐Christian modernity
• Christine de Pizan. See also Book of the City of Ladies
  • logic
  • portrayal
  • vision
• Chrysopoeia libri tres
• Cicero
• Circean enchantments
  • Circe’s mythology
  • Greek mythic tradition
  • mythic transformation
• Circe’s mythology
• Clann Ollaman Uaisle Emna
• Clark, Emma Chichester
• Classical Dictionary
• classical mythography
• classical scholars
• classical‐style architecture
• classical tradition
• Clement of Alexandria
• Colchis
• colonization
• Common Reader
• comparative approach, myth
  • eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
  • Eranos
  • ritualists
• Coniugalia Praecepta
• contemporary mythography
  • Echo
  • mass culture
  • popular culture and myth
• contemporary religious images
• contemporization
• Contingent
• Conti’s thematic and structural approach
• Cornutus
• counter‐intuitive readings
• Cthulhu Mythos
• cultural hegemony
• Cupid
• Cupid and Psyche
  • allegory
  • literary interpretations
  • translations
  • visual art

• Daedalus
• Danish Broadcasting Corporation
• Dansmarksfilm
• Dawson, David
• De Cognominibus Deorum
• Dedalus, Stephen
• De Deis Gentium
• De Genealogia Deorum
• De Iside et Osiride
• Della Pittura
• delusional beliefs
• Demogorgon
• Demogorgon theory
• De mulieribus claris
• de Raptu Proserpinae
• Dialoghi D’Amore
• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
• Diego Lopéz de Cortegana
• Diocletian
• Diomedes
• Dionysian media
• Dionysus
• Dionysus in Rome
  • Bacchanalia
  • Italy
  • Liberalia
• Diuinae Institutiones
• Doctor Who
• Doniger, Wendy
  • assessment of Martin Buber
  • dogma and myth
  • myth with an army
  • religion fights myth
  • revolutionary myths
• Double‐entendres
• Draco Normannorum
• Dreyer/Thomsen script

• Echo, . See also Narcissus
• Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene
• Eliade, Mircea
• Endymion
• Enuma Elish
• epistemophilic instinct
• errores gentilium
• Euhemerus
• Eumenides
• Euripides

• “Europa” trilogy films

• Eurydice
  • Alcestis
  • Ettinger’s paintings
  • feminist
  • pre‐feminist
  • proto‐feminist
  • revisionist mythmaking
  • sleeping beauty
  • traditional position
  • Virgilian retelling

• Fabulae and Astronomica
• feminist
• feminist spirituality movement
• Femslash
• Finnegan’s Wake
• Firenzuola, Agnolo

• The Flaying of Marsyas

• Florentine Camerata
  • canzonetta
  • Frederico Malipiero
  • Giovanni Bardi
  • Giulio Caccini
  • Venice
  • villanella
• Frazer, James
• Freud
• Freudian psychoanalysis
• Freudian slips
• Freud, Sigmund
• Fufluns
• Fulgentius

• Galatea
• Galatea Galante
• Galaxy Quest
• Galerius
• Gallus, Cornelius
• gaping void
• Genealogia Deorum Gentilium
• Genealogiae
• genealogies
• Genialium dierum
• Geoffrey of Monmouth
• George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion
  • antique sculpture
  • British theatre
  • craftsmanship
  • creative authority
  • Doolittle’s pragmatism
  • educating Rita
  • Eliza’s
    • autonomy
    • body
    • independence
    • metamorphosis
    • mimicry
    • rebellion
    • speech
  • English language
  • erotic attachment
  • Galatea
  • goddess Venus
  • Henry Higgins
    • excitement
    • inability
    • Mrs Higgins
    • pre‐conditional mastery
    • sexual desire
  • living statues
  • Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein model
  • postures of, servitium amoris
  • proletarian squalor of “the gutter,”
  • romantic trajectory
  • Russell’s treatment pivots
  • sexual commodification
  • W.S. Gilbert
• George de La Bouthière
• Gerstein, Mordicai
• Geschichte der griechischen Religion
• Ghost of Aeschylus
• Giraldi, Lilio Gregorio
• Giraldi’s etymological approach
• goddess Venus
• Gods in modern world
• golden age
  • christendom
  • christian god
  • Claudian
  • de Raptu Proserpinae
  • Diocletian
  • Diuinae Institutiones
  • Eclogues
  • Galerius
  • hard primitivism
  • Jupiter
  • Lactantius
  • Megaera
  • Metamorphoses
  • polemical pragmatism
  • rule of Kronos
  • rule of Saturn
  • Virgil’s
    • conception
    • descriptions
    • Georgics
    • theodicy
• Golden Ass

• The Golden Bough

• Golden Fleece

• The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
• The Golden Porch: A Book of Greek Fairy Tales

• Goldhill, Simon
• Gonzaga, Duke Federico
• Graves, Robert
• Grecian Urn
• Greek and Latin Christianity
• Greek Dionysus
• Greek facades
• Greek Fairy‐Tales for my Children
• Greek myth
• Greek mythic tradition
• Greek mythography
  • classical mythography
  • post‐classical mythography

• The Greek Myths

• Gregorian reform

• Hamlet
• Handbook of Greek Mythology
• Harrison, Jane Ellen
• Havrech, Julianus Aurelius
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel
• Hecataeus of Miletus
• Heidi
• Helen
  • Helen O’Loy
  • Ilium
  • Olympos
• Helena Kosmatos
• Heraclitus
• Hercules
• Hermeneumata Pseudo‐Dositheana

• The Hero: A Study in Tradition, Myth and Drama

• Herodotus

• The Heroes
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces

• Heywood
• Hippolytus
• Historia Britonum
• Historical Account of the Heathen Gods and Heroes
• historical and cultural contextualization
• Hollander, Robert
• Homeric Problems
• Homer’s Odyssey
  • Eurimaco
  • Florentine Camerata
  • Melanto
  • Penelope
  • sophrosyne
  • Telemaco
• Homo Necans
• Humana Fragilita
• hyperion

• Icarus
• idiosyncratic style
• ignominious
• Iliad
• Illustrious Heroes
• Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria. See Claudio Monteverdi
• immortal life
• infidelity

• Jackson, Percy
• Jason’s betrayal
• Jean d’Arcy prize
• John of Antioch
• Joyce, James
• Julius and Augustus Caesar
• Jung, Carl
• Jungian‐Campbellian notion
• Jupiter
• justice

• Kallendorf, Craig
• Kantian noumenon
• Keats, John
• Kerényi, Karl
• kidney disease
• Kingsley, Charles
• Kosmatos, Helena
• Kristeva, Julia
• Kuhn, Adalbert

• Lactantius
• Lamb, Charles
• landscape
• Laocoon
• Lars von Trier’s Medea
  • aesthetic experimentation
  • agon/rhetorical contest
  • akratic action
  • Cahiers du Cinéma
  • chorus of Corinthian women
  • cinematic creativity
  • classic text
  • Danish Broadcasting Corporation
  • Danish TV
  • ‘Dansmarksfilm’
  • description of nature
  • Dreyer’s tuxedo
  • Dreyer/Thomsen script
  • Element of Crime
  • Element of Crime and Epidemic
  • “Europa” trilogy films
  • murder and suicide
  • National Film School of Denmark
  • problem of childlessness
  • sun chariot
  • Viking history
  • visual imagination
  • visual spectacle
  • visual style
• Lectionum Antiquarum
• Lema Sabachthani
• Lexikon
• Liber
• Liberalia
• Liber monstrorum

• the Library of Apollodorus

• libri monstrorum
• Life of Homer
• Lighthouse
• Lincoln, Bruce
• literate environments, myth
• Little Lord Fauntleroy

• “little note‐book,”

• Louveau, Jean
• Love, Sex and Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives
• Lycidas
• Lyre

• maestro di cappella

• The Man in the Maze

• Marsyas
  • Abraham
  • Contingent
  • The Flaying of Marsyas
  • Laocoon
  • Lema Sabachthani
  • My Red Homeland
  • negative dialectics
  • rigors of minimalism
  • sculptural language
  • Uberorgan
• Martianus Capella
• Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein model
• matriarchal spirituality movements
• Matriarchy and Utopia
  • archaic social structures
  • canonical status
  • dialectical materialism
  • Eastern barbarians
  • European culture
  • “feminist spirituality” movement
  • Freudian psychoanalysis
  • gynomorphic mystical topography
  • Herbert Spencer
  • historical reality
  • Johann Jakob Bachofen
  • matriarchal social organization
  • matriarchal spirituality movements
  • monotheistic Goddess‐religion
  • neolithic matriarchal culture
  • nineteenth century
  • radical political movements
  • sex reform
  • theory of ethnic conquest
  • theory of “survivals,”
  • Trobriand islanders
  • Utopian politics
  • women’s movement
• Medea
• Medieval Church myth
  • Greek and Latin Christianity
  • Gregorian reform
  • pagan literature, clerical education
  • Vatican mythographers
• Megaera
• Meltzer, Donald
• Messalina
• Metamorphoses. See Golden Ass
• Metamorphoses
• Metamorphosis of Narcissus
  • Jacques Rousseau
  • Marsilio Ficino
  • Narcisse parle
  • Narcissus Garden
  • primary narcissism
  • vanitas iconography
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Michael Maier
• Michel de Tours
• Midas rex Mygdonius filius Matris deae
• minority reading
• Modest Chariclea
• Monteverdi, Claudio
  • arioso
  • Giacomo Badoaro
  • Homer’s Odyssey
  • Penelope’s song and fidelity
  • recitativo
  • ritorno
  • sources, forms, and prologues of
    • Bruce Kirle
    • Humana Fragilita
    • maestro di cappella
• Monteverdi’s music
  • arioso
  • Carter
  • Illustratevi o cieli
  • Incogniti
  • recitativo
• Montifalchius
• Mrs Dalloway
• Müller, Friedrich Max
• Muncker
• murderers and suicide
• My Red Homeland
• myth collections for children
  • Greek and Roman mythology
  • Greek Myths for Young Children
  • illustration and classic works
  • Perseus myth
• myth conceptions in renaissance mythographers
• mythical narrative
  • epistemophilic instinct
  • Hermione
  • identity
  • mental pregnancy
  • music
  • narcissism
  • objects
  • pseudo‐scientific brain
  • psychoanalytic view
  • Pythagorean, catastrophic change
  • self‐development
  • self‐knowledge
  • self‐recognition
  • self‐reflection
  • Theseus
  • Trojan horse
• mythic heroine
• mythic transformation
• mythmaking in twenty‐first‐century
• Myth of Sisyphus
  • death and scorn
  • happiness of
• mythographic midas
• mythographic strategy
• Mythographi Latini
• Mythographus Homericus
• Mythographus Vergilianus
• mythography
• Mythologiae
• mythological history
  • harmonize with christianity
  • time of chaos
  • Venus/concord
• mythological subjects

• “Myth‐o‐mania,”

• Mythomystes
• myth’s adumbrations

• nameless dread
• Narcissism
• Narcissus
  • choral echo
  • echo aria
  • metamorphosis of
  • The Nymph Echo
  • tales of love
• National Film School of Denmark
• negative dialectics
• Netherlandish
• Neurotics
• Newman’s canvases
• Niccolò da Correggio
• Nicholls, Peter
• Nietzsche’s The Gay Science
• Norse and Saxon myth
• Notre Dame de Paris

• The Nymph Echo
  • Comus
  • Ernst
  • Ovid
  • Queen of Parley
• The Oak Tree

• Occult tradition
• Odyssean machinations
• Odysseus, . See also Ulysses

• The Odyssey

• Oedipus
• Old Greek Fairy Tales
• Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew
• Olympians
• One‐Minute Greek Myths
• On Unbelievable Tales of Pseudo‐Palaephatus
• oracular vapour

• The Orientalizing Revolution

• Orlando
• Orpheus
  • dismembering
  • sparagmos
• orphic song
• orthodox historiography
• Oswald, Alice
• Ovide moralisé
• Ovidian metamorphosis
• Ovidian tale
• Ovid’s Metamorphoses
• Ovid’s sea
• Oxyrhynchus papyri
• Ozzy Osbourne

• pagan mythology
• Palaephatus
• Pandora Crane

• The Pantheon

• Pantheon Antiquorumi, Latin version
• Pantheum Mythicum translation
• paradoxographer
• Parthenius of Nicaea
• Peisistratids
• Pelops
• Penelope’s song and fidelity
• Penelope story

• The Penelopiad

• Periodos or Circuit of the World
• perpetual orphic song
• Perseus
• Petrarch
• Philoctetes
• Pictor, Georgius
• Pieter Bruegel the Elder
  • composition
  • painting
    • ignominious
    • religious scenes
    • wandering eye
  • thematic relationships
• Pindar’s Pythian
• Placidus, Lactantius

• The Plague

• Pleasure/Voluptas
• poetic mythography
• poetic theology
• polemical pragmatism
• Pomey, François
• pop‐culture texts
• Poseidon
• post‐classical mythography
• post‐Kleinian psychoanalysis
• Poussin
• Prisca philosophia
• Prometheus
  • Aeschylean
  • Metamorphoses
  • Prometheus Unbound
• Prometheus Bound
• Prometheus Unbound
  • Aeschylus
  • Dionysus
  • hyperion
  • Manichean dualism
  • metamorphosis
  • oracular vapour
  • orphic song
  • Panthea’s role
• Proserpina
• Proserpina’s box
• protagonist
• proto‐feminist
• psychoanalyst
• psychoanalytic case studies
  • Astyanax
  • classical scholars
  • David Bell
  • Donald Meltzer
  • Donald Winnicott
  • Elizabeth Spillius
  • Pantelis Michelakis
  • post‐Kleinian psychoanalysis
  • Sigmund Freud
  • unconscious communication
• Pygmalion
• Pythagorean

• quadrivium
• Queen Dido
  • death
  • life
  • loving of Aeneas
  • myth

• radical innovation
• Random House Book of Greek Myths
• Raphael
• Raphael’s design
• rationalizers

• The Rebel

• religion fights myth
• renaissance alchemy
• renaissance cycles
• renaissance mythographers
  • Alexandro ab Alexandro
  • François Pomey
  • Georgius Pictor
  • Giovanni Boccaccio
  • Lilio Gregorio Giraldi
  • Ludovicus Caelius Rhodiginus
  • Natale Conti
  • Vincenzo Cartari
• renaissance religious art
• revised classical myth
• revisionism
  • classical myth
  • ideology of society
  • Odysseus
  • radical and aesthetic innovation
  • traditional myth
• Rhodiginus, Ludovicus Caelius
• Rick Riordan’s
  • mythographic
  • tales
• ritualists
• Roman hostility
• Roman mythography
  • Fulgentius
  • mythographic midas
• Roman pantheon
• Roman religion
• Rosa Alchemica
• Rouse, W.H.D.

• Satyrica
• science fiction
  • Helen
  • Prometheus
  • Pygmalion
• Semiramis
• Septimus
• Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound
• Sieder, Johann
• Smith, Jonathan Z.
• Smith, William Robertson
• Socrates
• Solomon, J.
• Sophocles’ Electra
• sophrosyne
• space for women
• sparagmos
• Spencer, Herbert
• Spyri, Joanna
• Stanford, W.B.
• Star Trek
• Story of Proteus
• Structure and History in Greek Myth and Ritual
• Sun. See Apollo
• Super Thebaiden

• Tales from Euripides
• Tales of Troy and Greece
• Tanglewood Tales
• Tantalus
• Tartarus
• Tekne grammatike
• Theatrum Ethnico idolatricum Politico‐Historicum Ethnicorum Idolatrias
• Theologia mythologica
• theory of Euhemerus
• Theseus
• Thesprotians
• Thraxos, Dionysius
• Tooke’s Pantheon of the Heathen Gods
• translations
• Treasure Island and Robinson Crusoe
• Trobriand islanders
• Troilus and Cressida
• Trojan Horse
• Trojan War

• uberorgan
• Ulysses

• The Ulysses Theme

• universal medicine
• Utopian politics

• Van Buuren Museum
• vanitas iconography
• Vatican mythographers
• Venus
• Venus and Cupid
• victory
• Virgil’s Georgics
• Virgil’s theodicy
• Virginia Brown
• visual imagination
• Vitruvius
• von Herder, Johann Gottfried

• Walcott, Derek
• weaving tapestry
• western civilization

• The White Goddess

• Winnicott, Donald
• Wisdom Literature
• Wisdom of the Ancients
  • Francis Bacon
  • Virginia Company
• Woolf, Virginia
  • Agamemnon
  • ancient Greek culture
  • Common Reader
  • Knox
  • Lighthouse
  • metamorphoses
  • Mrs Dalloway
  • The Oak Tree
  • Orlando
  • septimus
  • Sophocles’ Electra

• Xena: Warrior Princess

• Yale Review
• You are happy
• Young All‐Stars

• Zeus
• Zeus’s story