The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth

Buch | Hardcover

640 Seiten

2024
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-289650-6 (ISBN)

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The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth presents forty chapters about the unique and terrifying creatures from myths of the long-ago Near East and Mediterranean world, featuring authoritative contributions by many of the top international experts on ancient monsters and the monstrous. The first part provides original studies of individual monsters such as the Chimaera, Cerberus, the Hydra, and the Minotaur, and of monster groups such as dragons, centaurs, sirens, and Cyclopes. This section also explores their encounters with the major heroes of classical myth, including Perseus, Jason, Heracles, and Odysseus. The second part examines monsters of ancient folklore and ethnography, encompassing the restless dead, blood-drinking lamiae, exotic hybrid animals, the so-called dog-headed men, and many other unexpected creatures and peoples. The third part covers various interpretations of these creatures from multiple perspectives, including psychoanalysis, colonialism, and disability studies, with monster theory itself evident across the entire volume. The final part discusses reception of these ancient monsters across time and space--from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance to modern times, from Persia to Scandinavia, the Caribbean, and Latin America-and concludes with chapters considering the use and adaptation of ancient monsters in children's literature, science fiction, fantasy, and modern scientific disciplines. This Handbook is the first large-scale, inclusive guide to monsters in antiquity, their places in literature and art across the millennia, and their influence on later literature and thought.

Debbie Felton is Professor of Classics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research focuses on folklore in classical antiquity, especially tales of the monstrous and supernatural. Her books include Haunted Greece and Rome (1999), the edited volumes Landscapes of Dread in Classical Antiquity (2018) and A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in Antiquity (2021), and Monsters and Monarchs: Serial Killers in Classical Myth and History (2021). She enjoys bringing her research into the public sphere, and has appeared in various media (newspapers, radio, tv, blogs, podcasts, webinars) in the USA and Europe.

Debbie Felton: Introduction: Monster Theory and Classical Antiquity
Part I: Monsters in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East
1: Fiona Mitchell: Monsters in Creation Narratives of Ancient Greece and Rome
2: Madadh Richey: Monsters in Ancient Near Eastern Myth and Religion
3: Leanna Boychenko: Spawned from the Nile: Egyptian Monsters in Greco-Roman Culture
4: William Brockliss: Typhoeus, Agent of Disorder
5: Christina A. Salowey: The Giants: Children of Gaia
6: Daniel Ogden: Dragons
7: Dominic Ingemark and Camilla Asplund Ingemark: The 'Monster-Harbouring Sea': Sea Monsters and Sea Serpents in Ancient Myth
8: Dunstan Lowe: Art Horror: The Gorgons and Medusa
9: R. Scott Smith: The Chimaera
10: Derrek Joyce: Cerberus, Hound of Hades
11: Susan Deacy: Down the Sink Hole: The Lernaean Hydra
12: Mercedes Aguirre and Richard Buxton: Cyclopes
13: Marianne Hopman: Scylla and Charybdis
14: Ryan Denson: Sirens and Harpies: The Enchanting and Repulsive Avian Monsters of Classical Antiquity
15: Carolina López-Ruiz: The Sphinx
16: Stephen M. Trzaskoma: The Minotaur
17: Emma Aston: Human-Animal Hybrids
18: Genevieve Liveley: Monstrous Metamorphoses: Ovid and the Art of Making and Unmaking Monsters
Part II: Monsters in Ancient Folklore and Ethnography
19: Janek Kucharski: Ancient Bogeys: Lamia, Mormo, Empousa, Gello, and Others
20: Julia Doroszewska: Ghosts: The Restless and Unpleasant Dead
21: Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr.: The Monstrous Animals and Animal Monsters of Ancient Greece
22: John B. Friedman: Reading Monstrous Peoples in Ancient Greece and Rome
Part III: Interpreting the Monsters
23: Simon Oswald: Monumental Monsters
24: Andrea Murace: Cryptids in Greek Art
25: Lorenz Winkler-Horaček: Monsters in Ancient Greek Art
26: Greta Hawes: Rationalizing Mythic Monsters in Antiquity
27: Vanda Zajko: Beyond Othering : Classical Monstrosity and Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
28: Jennifer Larson: Gods and Monsters: Cognitive Approaches to the Monstrous
29: Eirini Apanomeritaki: Monsters of the Inner World: Psychoanalytic Approaches
30: Hannah Silverblank and Marchella Ward: Monsters and Disability: The Violence of Interpreting Bodies in Aristotle and Homer
Part IV: The Reception of Classical Monsters
31: Peter Adrian Behravesh: Pearls from a Dark Cloud: Monsters in Persian Myth
32: Arngrímur Vídalín: Plinian Monsters in Old Norse Encyclopedic Literature
33: Antonella Sciancalepore: Ancient Monsters in Medieval Literature and Art
34: Luba Freedman: The Revival of Classical Monsters in the Italian Renaissance
35: Persephone Braham: Classical Monsters in Latin American Cultures
36: Justine McConnell: Recasting Monsters in Postcolonial Art and Literature
37: Katarzyna Marciniak: Classical Monsters in Children s and YA Literature
38: Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Jesse Weiner, and Brett M. Rogers: Ancient Monsters in Modern Speculative Fiction
39: Liz Gloyn: Classical Monsters in Modern Popular Culture: A Case Study in Fan Fiction
40: Debbie Felton: Ancient Monsters in Modern Science

Erscheinungsdatum	25.10.2024
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Handbooks
Zusatzinfo	50 black-and-white and 11 colour illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	180 x 253 mm
Gewicht	1380 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-289650-4 / 0192896504
ISBN-13	978-0-19-289650-6 / 9780192896506
Zustand	Neuware