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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 representations, Television drama, popular newspapers or journals, poems and outdoor festivals. For the first time in Classical Reception Studies, ancient Jewish literature and imagery are included in the discussion. The focus of the volume is both the continuity and variance between ancient and modern sets of values, which appear in the new interpretations of the ancient stories, figures and protagonists.
Contents
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Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture
Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice
Part 1: Re-enacting Ancient Virtues and Vices
Section 1: Staging Ancient Virtues and VicesThe 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 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
Part 2: Ancient Virtues and Vices in the Modern World
Section 2: 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 The 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 A 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
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