Hoyle Helena - A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology

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This series offers comprehensive, thoughtprovoking surveys of the reception of major classical authors and themes. These Handbooks will consist of approximately 30 newly written essays by leading scholars in the field, and will map the ways in which the ancient world has been viewed and adapted up to the present day. Essays are meant to be engaging, accessible, and scholarly pieces of writing, and are designed for an audience of advanced undergraduates, graduates, and scholars.

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A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid
John Miller and Carole E. Newlands

A Handbook to the Reception of Thucydides
Christine Lee and Neville Morley

A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama
Betine van Zyl Smit

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A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology
Vanda Zajko and Helena Hoyle

A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe
Zara Martirosova Torlone, Dana LaCourse Munteanu, and Dorota Dutsch

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Vanda Zajko and Helena Hoyle

This edition first published 2017
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Rosemary Barrow is a Reader in Classical Art & Reception at the University of Roehampton. Besides articles on art history and the classical tradition, she has published two monographs on Victorian classical reception Lawrence AlmaTadema (2001) and The Use of Classical Art & Literature by Victorian Painters (2007) and a coauthored book with Michael Silk and Ingo Gildenhard entitled The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature, Thought (2013).

John Channing Briggs is the author of Francis Bacon and the Rhetoric of Nature, a chapter on Bacons science and religion in the Cambridge Companion to Francis Bacon, and a close reading of Lincolns speeches (Lincolns Speeches Reconsidered). Educated at Harvard and the University of Chicago, he is Professor of English and McSweeny Chair of Rhetoric and Excellence in Teaching at the University of California, Riverside.

George Burrows is Principal Lecturer for Performing Arts at the University of Portsmouth, where he also leads the Centre for Performing Arts. He is cofounder of the Song, Stage and Screen international musical theater conference and a founding editor of the journal, Studies in Musical Theatre. His research most often considers the social functions and meanings of music and musical theater in the interwar period but he has also published work on the composers Claudio Monteverdi (15671643) and Charles Villiers Stanford (18521924). He has directed the University of Portsmouth Choirs for more than a decade and his book, Andy Kirk and his Clouds of Joy, is forthcoming.

James G. Clark is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He has written widely on aspects of medieval clerical culture and has a particular interest in the reception of the Latin classics among learned clerks in the later Middle Ages. Recent publications include Ovid in the Middle Ages (2011).

Peter Davies is Professor of Modern German Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Publications include Divided Loyalties: East German Writers and the Politics of German Division (2000); with Stephen Parker and Matthew Philpotts, The Modern Restoration: ReReading German Literary History, 19301960 (2004); Myth, Matriarchy and Modernity: Johann Jakob Bachofen in German Culture, 18601945 (2010). He has also written on topics ranging from East German literature, myth and literature, National Socialism and Holocaust writing, and Translation Studies.

Lillian Doherty is a Professor of Classics at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she has taught since 1984. Her home is in the Department of Classics but she is also a member of the affiliate faculties in Womens Studies and Comparative Literature. She specializes in archaic Greek poetry, with a special emphasis on the Odyssey. She is the author of Siren Songs: Gender, Audiences, and Narrators in the Odyssey (1995) and Gender and the Interpretation of Classical Myth (2001) and the editor of Oxford Readings in Homers Odyssey (2008).

Robert L. Fowler was educated at Toronto and Oxford, and has been H.O. Wills Professor of Greek at the University of Bristol since 1996. He has worked on Greek epic and lyric poetry as well as Greek historiography, mythography, religion, and the history of classical scholarship. His publications include The Nature of Early Greek Lyric (1987), The Cambridge Companion to Homer (ed., 2004), and the two volumes of Early Greek Mythography (20002013), which collect and comment on the fragments of the first 29 Greek mythographers. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Julia Haig Gaisser is Eugenia Chase Guild Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, Professor Emeritus of Latin at Bryn Mawr College.

Greta Hawes is Early Career Fellow and Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at Australian National University. She is author of Rationalizing Myth in Antiquity (2014), is currently editing a collection of essays, Myths on the Map: The Storied Landscapes of Ancient Greece.

Gregory Hays