Table of Contents

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Notes on Contributors
4. Introduction
5. Part I: Mythography
   1. 1 Greek Mythography
      1. Beginnings and Classical Mythography
      2. Post‐classical Mythography
      3. Closing Thoughts
      4. Guide to Further Reading
      5. References
   2. 2 Roman Mythography
      1. Introduction
      2. Surviving Texts
      3. A Case Study: The Mythographic Midas
      4. From Narrative to Interpretation: Fulgentius
      5. Afterlife
      6. Guide to Further Reading
      7. References
   3. 3 Myth and the Medieval Church
      1. Guide to Further Reading
      2. References
   4. 4 The Renaissance Mythographers
      1. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375)
      2. Ludovicus Caelius Rhodiginus (1453–1525), Alexandro ab Alexandro (1463–1525)
      3. Georgius Pictor (1500–1569)
      4. Montifalchius; Julianus Aurelius Havrech
      5. Lilio Gregorio Giraldi (1479–1552)
      6. Vincenzo Cartari (1502?–1570?)
      7. Natale Conti
      8. François Pomey (1618–1673)
      9. The Occult Tradition
      10. Conceptions of Myth in the Renaissance Mythographers
      11. Translations
      12. Guide to Further Reading
      13. References
   5. 5 Bulfinch and Graves
      1. Guide to Further Reading
      2. References
   6. 6 Myth Collections for Children
      1. Guide to Further Reading
      2. References
   7. 7 Contemporary Mythography
      1. Introduction
      2. Echo
      3. Popular Culture and/as Myth
      4. Myth Only Produces More Myth
      5. This is Going to Make a Great Story
      6. Conclusion
      7. Guide to Further Reading
      8. References
      9. Primary sources
      10. Film
      11. Videogame
6. Part II: Approaches and Themes
   1. 8 Circean Enchantments and the Transformations of Allegory
      1. Double Vision
      2. Corrective Lenses
      3. Prisms
      4. Scattered Beams
      5. Guide to Further Reading
      6. References
   2. 9 The Comparative Approach
      1. The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
      2. Smith, Frazer, Harrison
      3. The Aftermath of the Ritualists
      4. The Eranos Set
      5. Walter Burkert: Biological Programs and the Orientalizing Revolution
      6. Looking for Difference: Smith, Lincoln, and Doniger
      7. Guide to Further Reading
      8. References
   3. 10 Revisionism
      1. Guide to Further Reading
      2. References
   4. 11 Alchemical Interpretations of Classical Myths
      1. Historical Background
      2. “Poetic Theology,” “Prisca Theologia,” and Renaissance Alchemy
      3. Nineteenth‐ and Twentieth‐Century Survival of the Alchemical Readings of Classical Myths
      4. An Example of the Diversity of Alchemical Exegeses of Myths
      5. The Classical Scholarship of the Alchemists
      6. Alchemical elaborations on classical myths
      7. Responses of mythographs to the alchemical exegesis of myths
      8. Guide to Further Reading
      9. References
   5. 12 Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism
      1. Guide to Further Reading
      2. References
   6. 13 The Golden Age
      1. Guide to Further Reading
      2. Appendix
      3. Terminology
      4. References
   7. 14 Matriarchy and Utopia
      1. Guide to Further Reading
      2. References
7. Part III: Myth, Creativity, and the Mind
   1. 15 The Half‐Blood Hero
      1. Gods in the Modern World
      2. Re‐evaluating the Classical Tradition
      3. Mythography and Intertextuality
      4. Guide to Further Reading
      5. References
   2. 16 Myth as Case Study
      1. Guide to Further Reading
      2. References
   3. 17 Mythical Narrative and Self‐Development
      1. Guide to Further Reading
      2. References
   4. 18 Finding Asylum for Virginia Woolf’s Classical Visions
      1. Guide to Further Reading
      2. References
8. Part IV: Iconic Figures and Texts
   1. 19 Orpheus and Eurydice
      1. Dismembering Orpheus
      2. Remembering Eurydice
      3. Guide to Further Reading
      4. References
   2. 20 Narcissus and Echo
      1. Echo: See Narcissus
      2. Metamorphosis of Narcissus
      3. Narcissus and Echo
      4. The Nymph Echo
      5. Tales of Love
      6. Guide to Further Reading
      7. References
   3. 21 Prometheus, Pygmalion, and Helen
      1. Introduction: Science Fiction and (or as) Mythology
      2. Prometheus
      3. Pygmalion
      4. Helen
      5. Conclusion
      6. Guide to Further Reading
      7. References
   4. 22 Dionysus in Rome
      1. Introduction
      2. Earliest Evidence for Dionysus in Italy
      3. Liberalia
      4. Bacchanalia
      5. Acknowledgments
      6. Guide to Further Reading
      7. References
   5. 23 Cupid and Psyche
      1. Allegory
      2. Visual Art
      3. Translations
      4. Literary Interpretations
      5. Guide to Further Reading
      6. References
   6. 24 Constructing a Mythic City in the Book of the City of Ladies
      1. Christine’s Many‐Layered Mythic City in the Book of the City of Ladies
      2. A New Space for Women and the Rewriting of Myth
      3. Book of the City of Ladies, Part II
      4. Book of the City of Ladies, Part III
      5. Guide to Further Reading
      6. References
   7. 25 Francis Bacon’s Wisdom of the Ancients
      1. Guide to Further Reading
      2. References
   8. 26 Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
      1. Guide to Further Reading
      2. References
   9. 27 Ancient and Modern Re‐sounding
      1. Two Scores for the Price of One: Differing Sources, Forms, and Prologues of Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria
      2. Revamping a Classic: Towards Understanding the Reception of Homer’s Odyssey in Seventeenth‐Century Venice
      3. Reconceiving Greek Tragedy: The Florentine Camerata and the Accademia degli Incogniti
      4. Penelope’s Song and Fidelity: Monteverdi’s Ancient and Modern Music
      5. Guide to Further Reading
      6. References
   10. 28 Shelley Prometheus Unbound
       1. Guide to Further Reading
       2. References
   11. 29 George Bernard Shaw
       1. Guide to Further Reading
       2. References
   12. 30 Camus and the Myth of Sisyphus
       1. Sisyphus’ Hatred of Death and Scorn for the Gods
       2. Epicurean Hatred of Death and Scorn for the Gods
       3. The Happiness of Sisyphus, Pindar, and Valéry
       4. Conclusions
       5. Guide to Further Reading
       6. References
   13. 31 Creative Strategies
       1. The Reception of von Trier’s Medea
       2. From Settings to Fascinating Landscapes: Trier’s Depiction of Nature
       3. Always the Provocateur: From one Murderer and Two Deaths to Two Murderers and a Suicide
       4. Guide to Further Reading
       5. References
   14. 32 Regarding the Pain of Others with Marsyas
       1. Why Marsyas?
       2. Guide to Further Reading
       3. References
9. Index
10. End User License Agreement

List of Illustrations

1. Chapter 04
   1. Figure 4.1 Images of Venus, of Cupid, Play, and the Goat, all of which symbolize generation. And the image of the tortoise, a hieroglyphic that refers to the danger that married women experience in giving birth, and a reminder that their real responsibility is to take care of their families and bring up children. And that Silence, more than any other quality, is essential for women.
2. Chapter 06
   1. Figure 6.1 Pandora.
   2. Figure 6.2 Pandora.
   3. Figure 6.3 Pandora.
3. Chapter 20
   1. Figure 20.1 The Nymph Echo.
4. Chapter 26
   1. Figure 26.1 After Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, late 16th/early 17th century.
5. Chapter 31
   1. Figure 31.1
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   3. Figure 31.3
   4. Figure 31.4
   5. Figure 31.5
   6. Figure 31.6
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