2001: A Space Odyssey: 117, 195, 218, 220n14
Achilles: 23, 161, 165, 167, 169–172, 174–175, 180, 182, 219, 247, 263, 266, 269–271, 273–278
Aeneas: 66, 76, 84–87, 89, 99, 101, 253n22
Aeschylus: (Prometheus Bound) 1
Agamemnon: 167, 172, 241n88, 268–271, 273
alien(s) (generic): 35, 112, 132, 200–201, 204, 206, 209n27, 210–212, 215, 220, 251;
(belonging to Alien series): 222–223, 227–241
Alien: see “Scott, Ridley”
Alien Resurrection: see “Jeunet, Jean–Pierre”
Aliens: 223n25
alternate history: 324
Amazons: 10n15
America and/as Rome: 23, 145–160, 281–306
American Revolution: 300
anagnôrisis (‘recognition’): 130, 140
Anchises: 66, 76, 84n23, 86, 98–99, 101
‘ancient astronaut’ theory / gods as aliens: 206–210
android(s): 177, 180, 189–193, 235n68, 236–237
Antigonus I Monophthalmus: 319
Aphrodite (see also “Venus”): 204, 208, 246, 251n19
Apollo: 136, 199–200, 206–211, 215, 246, 248, 251, 270;
(in BSG, Arrow of) 243–244, 249, 253
Apollonius of Rhodes: (Argonautica) 182–184
Apuleius: 110;
Aratus: (Phaenomena) 229n43, 230n48, 230n50
Ares (see also “Mars”): 152, 246, 251n19
(Poetics) 21–22, 124–126, 129–132, 137, 140, 162n2
artificial intelligence: 177, 189n36, 195n45, 229, 235, 245
artificial life: 21, 73, 177–180, 182, 184, 187–189, 191, 194–196
Asimov, Isaac: (David Starr: Space Ranger) 219n10;
(Foundation trilogy/series) 7, 195n45, 315–316, 320–321
astronomy, the new: 32, 36, 38–39
Athena (see also “Minerva”): 6n8, 23, 199, 229, 231, 238, 239n82, 240, 246–247;
(allusions to) 248;
(in BSG, Tomb of) 253
Athenaeus: 324
Atwood, Margaret: (Penelopiad) 219n10, 240n83
Auriga (constellation): 228–231
Auriga (ship): 222–223, 228–235, 237, 240
Aurora: 246
Avernus: 83n21
Back to the Future: 323
Battlestar Galactica (2003–2009 series): 22, 74, 166, 243–259;
(“Bastille Day”) 246;
(“Daybreak, Part I”) 256;
(“Daybreak, Part II”) 254, 256–258;
(“Escape Velocity”) 257n32;
(“Exodus, Part I”) 247;
(“Flesh and Bone”) 247;
(“Home, Part II”) 253;
(“Kobol’s Last Gleaming, Part I”) 243, 249, 253;
(“Kobol’s Last Gleaming, Part II”) 243–244;
(“Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I”) 255;
(Miniseries) 255n27;
(“The Passage”) 246n8;
(“Precipice”) 248;
(“Torn”) 248;
(other related series) 246n7
Baudrillard, Jean: see “simulacrum”
Bellerophon: 212, 229, 230n48, 232
Bellerophon (ship in Forbidden Planet): 8, 127, 134
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure: 8n11, 10n14
Bion: (Death of Adonais) 204–205, 208
blood sport (see also “gladiator(s)”): 287
Bradbury, Ray: (Fahrenheit 451) 8n11;
(“A Story of Thunder”) 322
Bronze Age (myth of): 152, 154, 155, 320
Byatt, A. S.: (The Children’s Book) 88n36
(Beppo) 81n16
Caesar, Julius: 63–65, 66n53, 113, 281, 300, 324, 325n19;
(De Bello Gallico) 317n10
Caligula (film): 289
Capella (star): 230
catasterism: 229
Catholic Church: 13, 23, 155, 307–308, 324
Cerebus (comic): 313
Charybdis: 226
Cherry 2000: 8n10
Chimera: 188
Christianity: 23, 207n22, 255, 307–325
Chwast, Seymour: (Odyssey) 219n10
Cicero: 38;
(De Divinatione) 70;
(De Natura Deorum) 70;
(De Optimo Genere) 225n31;
(Pro Rege Deiotaro) 288
Clarke, Arthur C.: 112, 117, 132n7, 195, 218
Clarke’s Third Law: 132n7, 206, 212
Coleridge, Samuel: (“The Nightingale”) 96n48
Collins, Suzanne: (The Hunger Games trilogy) 23, 157n13, 280–306
Collodi, Carlo: (The Adventures of Pinocchio) 108n16
comics/comic strips/comic books: 23, 108, 219n10, 224, 245, 267, 307n1, 308–312, 313n7
Copernicus: 30, 31n7, 36, 38–39;
(De Revolutionibus) 38
Copernicanism: 29–30, 37n31, 41–43, 251n18
cosmogonies: 152
Cowper, William: (“Boadicea: An Ode”) 113–114
cyborg(s): 10n15, 12n17, 14, 177–178, 180n10, 187n31, 188, 196
Cyclops / Cyclopes (see also “Polyphemus”): 89n37, 159, 181, 219, 221–222, 226n36, 238–242;
(Cyclopean masonry) 158
Cylons: 7n11, 243–244, 246, 248, 252–253, 255–258
Cypria: 170n33
daemon / daimon: 31, 34–35, 44, 47n3, 62, 67–68, 70
Dante: (Inferno) 49–50, 61n42, 83n21, 86n31, 88n36, 95n47, 100n50, 101, 232n61
Darwin, Charles: 92n40, 116–117
Darwin, Erasmus: (The Temple of Nature) 50, 55n31
de Bergerac, Cyrano: (L’autre monde) 106, 111, 113
decadence: 7n11, 245, 258–259, 289
Delphi: 248;
(in BSG, Delphi Museum) 243–244
Descartes, René: 195n46
Dick, Philip K.: (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) 21, 177n3, 179, 189–191;
(other novels): 189n36
didactic poems: 50, 55n31, 59, 72, 73n69
didactic readings: 22, 57, 200, 202, 216
Diogenes, Antonius: (The Incredible Wonders Beyond Thule) 109n18, 112n38, 117
double: 33, 92, 99n53, 176, 185, 231n58
Doppelgänger: see “double”
Doctor Who: 10n14;
(“The Sound of Drums”) 193n43
dystopia: 23, 189, 280, 282–283, 287, 289, 297, 302;
(critical utopia) 282, 298–301;
(“classical” v. critical dystopias) 298
Earthsea: 8n11
Eliot, T. S.: (What is a Classic?) 101
Endymion: 118
epic, genre of: 7n11, 21, 59, 66, 72–73, 75–76, 77n4, 89–91, 95, 100–102, 161–175, 203, 217, 265;
(epic hero) 83–91, 98, 102, 208;
(for Roman epic films, see also “Hollywood”)
Ephialtes and Otos (giants): 61, 64
Epicurus: 56
Epicureanism: 50, 51n37, 54, 62–65, 72, 297
epiphany: 23, 56, 76, 77n4, 91–92, 97, 263–279
epistemology: 12, 20, 23, 97–100, 102
Eratosthenes, Ps.: (Catasterismoi) 229nn43–46, 230n51
Erichtho: 47, 50, 65–71, 73n68, 102n58
Erichthonius / Erechtheus: 229–232, 237
Escape from New York: 319n12
essentialism: 58
estrangement, cognitive: 11, 15, 18, 110, 244–245, 256, 258
ethics/ethical thinking: 11, 18n32, 20, 22, 46–47, 51n17, 60, 62–65, 69, 71–73, 199–200, 209, 220, 222–223, 228, 234–240, 308
Euripides: 110;
(Ion) 229n44
Eurydice: 101
Eusebius: (Life of Constantine) 323
Fama: 17n27
Fantasy (genre): 5, 8, 13, 17n26, 35, 88n36, 110–111, 164, 166n19, 167, 175, 218, 251n18
Fellini Satyricon: 288
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) 193n43
Flash Gordon: 219
Forbidden Planet: 8n11, 21, 123–144, 148n4, 230n48
Foucault, Michel: 70
Frankenstein, Victor: 3n3, 9, 47–48, 54, 58, 61–62, 64, 68–71
Frankenstein (novel): see “Shelley, Mary”
Franklin, Benjamin: 3
French Revolution: 50
Freud, Sigmund / Freudian theory: vii, 10n14, 92n41, 123–126, 128n18, 129n23, 136, 143–144
Furies: 69
Futurama: (“Where No Fan Has Gone Before”) 209n27
Galatea: 179, 184–187, 195, 222n20, 231n55
(Dialogue) 44;
(Sidereus Nuncius) 43
Germanicus: (Aratea) 229n43, 229nn45–46, 230n50
Gibbon, Edward: 321
gladiator(s) / gladiatorial combat: 214, 281–282, 290–297, 302
Gladiator (film): 286
Godwin, Francis: (The Man in the Moone) 21, 31n8, 106, 112, 116, 120
Goethe: 163n6;
(Faust) 46;
(Faust II) 50
Golden Age / Saturnian Age: 96, 152–154, 209
Golden Maidens of Hephaestus: 179–182, 187
Gothic fiction: 163n6
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner: 142
Hades (Greek god; see also “Pluto”): 226n36, 240
hamartia (‘mistake’): 132
Hands of Orlac, The: 58n36
Hannibal: 66n53
Haraway, Donna: 10n15, 15n22, 177–178, 180n10, 187n31
Hardy, Thomas: (“Neutral Tones”) 95nn47–48
Hartley, L. P.: (The Go–Between) 7
Hecate: 69
Hector / Hektor: 168n26, 171n35, 270–271, 278
Heinlein, Robert: 322
Hemingway, Ernest: 264
Hephaestus (see also “Vulcan”): 2n2, 6n8, 180–182, 186, 210n29, 229
Hera (see also “Juno”): 180, 246, 270;
Heraclitus: 95
Herbert, Frank: 320;
(Dune) 8n11, 21, 73, 161–175, 320;
(Dune Messiah) 170;
(God Emperor of Dune) 320
Hercules: 8n11;
Hermes (see also “Mercury”): 17n27, 229, 240n85
heroes: 76n3, 85, 86n31, 89–91, 97–98, 100, 102, 132, 163–165, 167n24, 169, 170n33, 174–175, 188, 237–238, 268, 275–276, 292
(Theogony) 1, 61n42, 62n46, 186–187, 253n22, 277;
(Works and Days) 146, 150, 152–156, 170n33, 182–183, 186–187, 193n43, 202, 209, 238, 253n22
Hickman, Jonathan: 23, 307–325;
(The Nightly News) 310;
(The Red Wing) 322n15
Holberg, Ludvig: (Nicolai Klimii iter subterraneum) 112–113
Hollywood: 207, 283–284, 287, 289, 291n50, 297, 300
homecoming: see “nostos”
(Iliad) 6n8, 21, 23, 89n37, 95n47, 100n55, 161–175, 180–182, 219n11, 225n34, 247, 263–279, 292n56;
(Odyssey) 6n8, 12n16, 22, 83n21, 86n28, 99nn52–53, 109, 115n57, 217–242, 250, 292n56
(Ars Poetica) 54;
(Satires) 297
hubris: 66, 126, 132, 135, 141, 212, 215, 274–275
hybrids / hybridity: 22–23, 138n44, 177–178, 180n10, 184, 188, 217–242, 246n8, 248, 256, 258, 282, 304, 320
ideology: 9–11, 76n2, 165n13 and 16, 191, 201, 241, 250n16
immortality: see “mortality / immortality”
Industrial Revolution: 250n13
Infancy Gospel of James: 272
Iron Age (mythical): 152–157, 238
Janus (god and SF magazine): 6
Jason (and the Argonauts): 113, 182, 187, 217n1, 222n21
Jeunet, Jean–Pierre: 222, 228;
(Alien Resurrection) 22, 222–225, 227–242;
(other films) 233n62
journey: see “voyage”
(Stephen Hero) 267
Juba: 66n53
Jupiter (Roman god; see also “Zeus”): 17n27, 85, 246;
(fictional brand of automobile) 214
Juvenal: (Satires) 23, 281, 287, 289, 305
Kepler, Johannes: (Somnium) 8n11, 20–21, 27–45, 105–106, 113, 116, 120, 149n5;
(Astronomia Nova) 30;
(Commentaries on the Motions of the Planet Mars) 44;
(Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo) 43;
(Harmonice Mundi) 30;
Kircher, Athanasius: (Mundus Subterraneus) 113
Kubrick, Stanley: 117, 195n45, 218
Lafferty, R. A.: (Space Chantey) 219–220
Latin language used in SF: 52–71, 75–104, 125, 146, 158–160, 228, 281, 286, 288, 289n40, 295, 304
Lévi–Strauss, Claude: 162
Lost in Space: 202
Lotus Eaters: 115n57, 219, 222, 226n36
Lovecraft, H. P.: 27n1, 206n21
Lucan: (Bellum Civile) 7n11, 20, 46–52, 61n42, 64–73
Lucas, George: 142
Lucian: (Apology for “Salaried Posts in Great Houses”) 107;
(True History) 6n8, 8nn11–12, 12n16, 20–21, 28, 35, 37–38, 45, 105–120, 218, 250
Lucifer (see also “Satan”): 61n42
Lucretius: (On the Nature of Things) 15n22, 16, 20, 46–66, 71–73, 90
magic, technology as: 132, 134, 206, 269, 272, 274
Manilius: (Astronomicon) 229n43
Marlowe, Christopher: (Faustus) 126
Mars (Roman god) 246;
(fictional brand of toothpaste) 214
Martial: 292n56
Marx, Karl: 17n25, 17n27, 89n37
materialism: 13n19, 16–17, 54, 73, 99
Matrix, The: 272
Meleager: 167
memory: (cultural) 3, 88–89, 95, 147, 166, 171;
(genetic) 168, 169n32, 232, 234–235;
(individual) 193, 220n16, 235, 309
Menander: 324
Menippus: 119
Merril, Judith: 5
Middle Ages / medievalism: 13n18, 20, 24, 83n21, 102n57, 145–147, 157
Miéville, China: 112
militarism: 287
Miller, Jr., Walter M.: (A Canticle for Leibowitz) 8n11, 13n19, 21, 145–160
Milton, John: (Paradise Lost) 2, 4, 8n11, 36, 46, 87n34, 89n37, 97n50, 100n55, 113
Minerva (see also “Athena”): 230–231
Minos: 281
monster(s) / monstrosity: 9n13, 10n15, 12n17, 46–73, 89n37, 92, 98–99, 125–144, 153, 178, 184, 188, 191–192, 200, 218–220, 226–227, 236–242, 282
moon: 21, 27–45, 105–120, 151, 218, 309
More, Thomas: (Utopia) 36, 111,
mortality and immortality: 22, 95–96, 170–171, 184, 196–216, 221
Moschus: (Idylls) 205
Murder Act of 1752: 58
Muses: 59, 172, 263–264, 268, 277–278
Mycenae: 158
Nekyia (Odyssey Book 11): 221n18, 228n40
Neptune (Roman god; see also “Poseidon”): 91–92, 99n53
Nero: 289
Niven’s Law: 322
Nonnus: (Dionysiaca) 230n49
nostos (‘homecoming’): 217–242
Odysseus: 89n37, 99n53, 219, 220n15, 221–223, 224n29, 225, 233n63, 236–242
Oedipus: 103, 124nn4–5, 130–131, 134, 135n39, 146–141
Olympians: 61, 180, 210n29, 265
Olympos / Olympus: 61, 96, 119, 152, 155, 180, 263–264, 273–275
Oppenheimer, J. Robert: 126
Orpheus: 101
Orwell, George: (1984) 298
‘Other’: 67, 69–70, 92, 98–100, 194, 219–220, 222–223, 228, 232, 235–237, 241–242, 251
Ovid: (Fasti) 6n7;
(Metamorphoses) 5–6, 153–156, 184–186, 222n20
Pan: 237
Parmenides: 211n31
Pausanias: (Description of Greece) 158–159, 229n47
Pelops: 229
peripeteia (‘reversal’): 130, 140
peripatetics: 41
Petronius: 23, 287, 288n33, 292n56
Pharsalus, battle of: 65
Philostratus: (Lives of the Sophists) 107
Philoxenus of Cythera: 222n20
Photius: (Bibliotheca) 109n18, 112n38
Plato: (Epigrammata) 205n18;
(Protagoras) 1;
Pliny the Elder: (Natural History) 60n39
Pliny the Younger: (Epistulae) 88n35
Plutarch: (De Facie in Orbe Lunae) 28–29, 35, 37–40, 42–43;
(Life of Theseus) 281n2
Pluto (Roman god, see also “Hades”): 69, 104
Poe, Edgar Allen: (“The Gold Bug”) 80n12
Polyphemus (see also “Cyclops/Cyclopes”): 221, 222n20
Pompey the Great: 65, 66n53, 68n59, 71n66
Pompey, Sextus: 71
Poseidon (see also “Neptune”): 221n18, 246
Postmodernism: 18n32, 228, 309–310
Prime Directive, the: 200–202, 209, 212–215
Procopius: (Secret History, Wars of Justinian) 319
Prometheus (Titan): 1–3, 46n1, 47, 186, 227–228
Prometheus (film): see “Scott, Ridley”
prophecy: 33, 66, 71, 84, 87, 91, 99, 102, 136, 139–141, 159, 167–169, 172–174, 221n18, 244, 247–249
Pythagoreanism: 45, 146, 150–152
Pythia: (in BSG, Books of) 243, 248–249
Rank, Otto: 92n41
religion: 141, 145–160, 243–259, 264, 275, 307–325
Renaissance: 55n30, 145, 147–148, 150, 155, 157
replicants: 177–178, 188–189, 191–194, 196
Roberts, Adam: 11–15, 18–19, 107, 109–110, 218n6, 245n3, 251n18
robot(s): 6n8, 14, 127, 176–177, 179, 184, 194n44, 195n45, 244–246, 254, 264n3
Roddenberry, Gene: 200n5, 200n7, 202, 204, 206, 211, 213n35, 252n20
Roman Empire: 107, 157, 200, 204n13, 214, 258–259, 282–285, 300, 305, 308, 321
Roman Republic: 66, 72, 282, 300
Romanticism: 50, 54, 62, 68, 97n51, 102
Rome: 66n53, 72, 113–114, 157, 160, 280–297, 300–301, 304–305
Rome (HBO series): 286
Rubicon: 324
Sallust: (Bellum Catilinae) 63n49
Satan (see also “Lucifer”): 87n34
satire: 27, 106, 109, 117, 282
science fiction, definition of: 1, 4–7, 12–19, 34–36, 47, 62, 107–111, 162, 179, 201, 249–251
(Blade Runner) 177–179, 188–196;
Seneca the younger: (De Consolatione ad Helviam) 288;
(Quaestiones Naturales) 151
Shakespeare, William: (Antony and Cleopatra) 295n67;
(Hamlet) 7n10;
(The Tempest) 123–125, 126, 133 n30;
(Titus Andronicus) 291n50
Shaw, George Bernard: (Man and Superman) 135n38
Shelley, Mary: (Frankenstein) 1–6, 8n11, 9, 20, 46–74, 99n53, 231, 250n14;
(Midas and Proserpine) 1n1
Shelley, Percy: 3n4, 49–52, 59, 61, 62n44, 64, 99n53;
(“Adonais”) 204–205, 207, 251n19;
(“Mutability”) 51;
(The Necessity of Atheism) 51n16;
(Prometheus Unbound) 51n16, 99n53;
(“To Stella”) 205n18
Silver Age: 152, 154–155, 209n28
Simmons, Dan: (Ilium) 74, 263–279;
(other works) 264n2
Simpsons: (“Treehouse of Horror V”) 322n14
simulacrum / simulacra: 139, 164–165, 177, 179, 186, 196
slavery: 204n13, 207, 214, 268, 287, 313
Sontag, Susan: 100
sophist: 107
Sophocles: (Oedipus Rex) 21, 124–126, 130–132, 136–137, 139–140, 142, 144
space colonization: 108, 124n4, 149, 189–191, 246, 253–254, 309
space travel, theme of: 201, 210, 218n5, 245
Spartacus (film): 289n39
speculative fiction: 12n16, 15n22, 20, 29, 36–37, 58n36, 74, 202
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country: 7n10
Star Trek (comic book): 219
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: 252;
(“Trials and Tribble–ations”) 203n11
Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG): 195n45, 252
Star Trek: The Original Series: 199–216, 282n7;
(“Bread and Circuses”) 200, 202n9, 204n13, 207n22, 209, 213–215;
(“The Deadly Years”) 193n43;
(“The Omega Glory”) 209;
(“Patterns of Force”) 209;
(“Plato’s Stepchildren”) 200, 209–211;
(“A Private Little War”) 209;
(“Return of the Archons”) 213;
(“Squire of Gothos”) 209;
(“The Trouble with Tribbles”) 203n11;
(“Who Mourns for Adonais?”) 200, 204–211, 251–252, 272n18
Star Trek: Voyager: 252;
(“Death Wish”) 209n28;
(“Favorite Son”) 219;
(“The Omega Directive”) 215n39
Star Wars: The Revenge of the Sith: 142
Stephenson, Robert Louis: (The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) 99n53
Stoic philosophy: 39, 47n4, 146, 150–152, 288
Stoppard, Tom: (The Invention of Love) 80n11
storytelling (including “narrative”): 91–92, 98, 162–171, 174–175, 186–187, 201, 203, 206, 215, 226–228, 245–247, 249, 266, 298–301, 309–310, 313, 316–317, 320
Styx (river): 69, 83n21, 84n23, 86n31, 100
Suetonius: 287;
(Life of Divus Julius) 324;
(Life of Tiberius) 289n39;
sun: 27, 30, 40, 44n46, 45, 88n36, 108, 118, 119n74, 151, 218, 230, 254
Suvin, Darko: 11–12, 15–19, 34, 36, 107n9, 110, 110–111n26, 112, 162n3, 165n36, 219n10, 244–245, 250nn13–14, 299n93
Swift, Jonathan: (Gulliver’s Travels) 109, 111, 193n43
(Annales) 289n42
Tasso: 73n69
technology: 1–3, 7, 9–10, 15n22, 53n24, 99, 127–128, 132, 139, 141–144, 162n1, 166, 206, 212, 228–229, 235–236, 250–251, 254, 257–259, 271–274, 278, 303–304, 308, 323
Teiresias / Tiresias: 139–40, 221n18
Terminator, The: 324
Tertullian: (De spectaculis) 287, 296–297, 302
time: 94–96, 102–103, 149–157, 162–170, 192–193, 233, 245, 250, 271–273
time travel: 10n14, 13–14, 112, 113, 268, 307–309, 316, 321–325
Tiryns: 158
Tolkien, J. R. R.: 166n19;
(The Hobbit) 99n53;
(The Lord of the Rings) 88n36
totalitarianism: 275, 284–286, 297, 300
Transformers: the Movie (1986): vii
Troy (city/war): 87n34, 169–170, 238, 268
True Grit: 319n12
Twain, Mark: 264
Twilight Zone: (“To Serve Man”) 241n89
Typhoeus / Typhon: 61–62, 64, 89n37, 188, 237
tyranny: 23, 211, 275, 299–301
Uatu the Watcher: 42
uncanny, the: 69, 92n41, 98, 99n53, 141n48
Underworld: 69 (as river Styx), 71, 77, 83–91, 94n42, 98–102, 152, 226–227, 232n61, 233–234
utopia: 14n20, 23, 35n23, 36, 148, 199–201, 208–209, 216, 282n11, 298–299
Utopia (work by Thomas More): 111
Venus (Roman god; see also “Aphrodite”): 84n23, 85, 185–186
(Extraordinary Journeys) 76;
(The Floating Island) 88n36;
(Journey to the Center of the Earth) 33n15, 75–85, 87–94, 96–104;
(Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea) 219n10
Virgil: 51, 61n42, 75–76, 100–102;
(Aeneid) 66, 75, 77, 83–90, 98–99, 100n55, 232n61, 252–253n22;
(Eclogues) 93–96, 97, 99, 205n18;
(Georgics) 90, 97n49, 99n52, 100n55;
(character in Dante's Inferno) 50n13
von Däniken, Erich: (Chariots of the Gods) 206n21
voyage (as in “fantastic voyage”): 13–14, 16n25, 36–37, 60, 80, 83–91, 102, 105–109, 112, 116–119, 182, 218–223, 226, 232, 236, 246
Vulcan (Roman god; see also “Hephaestus”): 17n27, 89n37, 230–231
Walcott, Derek: (“Homecoming: Anse La Raye”) 220–221n16
Weinbaum, Stanley G.: (“The Lotus Eaters”) 219;
(“A Martian Odyssey”) 217;
(“Proteus Island”) 219
Wells, H. G.: (“The Chronic Argonauts”) 113;
(Experiment in Autobiography) 114;
(The First Men in the Moon) 105–106, 108, 111–120;
(The Island of Doctor Moreau) 111, 113;
(Outline of History) 114;
(Scientific Romances) 114;
(The Time Machine) 117;
(The War of the Worlds) 111, 117
Whedon, Joss: 224–228, 230n53, 231, 235n68, 236;
(Angel) 230n53;
(Buffy the Vampire Slayer) 230n53, 235n68;
(Dollhouse) 230n53;
(Commentary! The Musical) 226–227;
xenia (‘guest–host relationship’): 241
Xenophon: (Anabasis) 102n57, 253n22
Zeus (see also “Jupiter”): 61–62, 64, 152, 167–170, 180, 183, 186, 230, 240, 246–247, 256, 272–273