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A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology presents a collection of essays that explore a wide variety of aspects of Greek and Roman myths and their critical reception from antiquity to the present day.

• Reveals the importance of mythography to the survival, dissemination, and popularization of classical myth from the ancient world to the present day
• Features chronologically organized essays that address different sets of myths that were important in each historical era, along with their thematic relevance
• Features chronologically organized...

Since Freud published the Interpretation of Dreams in 1900 and utilized Sophocles' Oedipus Rex to work through his developing ideas about the psycho-sexual development of children, it has been virtually impossible to think about psychoanalysis without reference to classical myth. Myth has the capacity to transcend the context of any particular retelling, continuing to transform our understanding of the present. Throughout the twentieth century, experts on the ancient world have turned to the insights of psychoanalytic criticism to supplement and inform their readings of...

Classical Presences
Series Editors: Lorna Hardwick, Professor of Classical Studies, Open University, and James I. Porter, Professor of Greek, Latin, and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan
The texts, ideas, images, and material culture of ancient Greece and Rome have always been crucial to attempts to appropriate the past in order to authenticate the present. They underlie the mapping of change and the assertion and challenging of values and identities, old and new. Classical Presences brings the latest scholarship to bear on the contexts, theory, and practice of such use,...

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy.

• Looks at a broad range of topics in the field of tragedy in literature, from ancient to contemporary times
  
• Explores the links between writers from different times and cultures
  
• Focuses on the reception of classical texts in subsequent literatures, and discusses their treatment in a range of media
  
• Surveys the lasting influence of the most resonant narratives in tragedy
  
• Contemplates exciting and...