Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy

Brett M. Rogers is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Puget Sound. He is the author of several essays on Greek epic and drama, as well as classical receptions in contemporary media (including film, television, and comics). He was also co-editor of Classical Traditions in Science Fiction (OUP 2015).Benjamin Eldon Stevens is the author of Silence in Catullus (Wisconsin UP 2013) and numerous articles on classical receptions, Latin poetry, and linguistics and its history. With Brett M. Rogers, he co-edited Classical Traditions in Science Fiction (OUP 2015). Currently at Trinity University, he has also taught at Bryn Mawr College and Hollins University, and Bard College, including for the Bard Prison Initiative.

Among the book's virtues are detailed notes (at page bottom), illustrations (including Edmund Dulac's Jason Appointed Tiphys the Stargazer, 1919, on the front cover), and full bibliography. The critical theory employed makes the book appropriate for experienced readers. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.

• Introduction: Fantasies of AntiquityBrett M. Rogers, University of Puget SoundBenjamin Eldon Stevens, Trinity University PART I: Classical Apparitions in (Pre-)Modern Fantasy 1. Classical Epic and the Poetics of Modern FantasyJesse Weiner, Hamilton College 2. Theorizing Fantasy: Enchantment, Parody, and the Classical Tradition...58Cecilie Flugt, Danish Academy in Rome 3. The Mirror Crack'd: Fractured Classicisms in the Pre-Raphaelites and Victorian Illustration....77Genevieve S. Gessert, American Academy in Rome 4. Classical Antiquity and the Timeless Horrors of H. P. Lovecraft...... 109Robinson Peter Krämer, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn PART II: False Medievalism & Other Ancient Fantasies 5. Ancient Underworlds in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit...138Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Trinity University 6. C. S. Lewis's The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader" and Apuleius' Metamorphoses...171Jeff Winkle, Calvin College 7. A Time for Fantasy: Retelling Apuleius in in C. S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces......190Marcus Folch, Columbia University PART III: Children and (Other) Ancient Monsters 8. The Classical Pantheon in Children's Fantasy Literature ...224Sarah Annes Brown, Anglia Ruskin University 9. Orestes & the Half-Blood Prince: Ghosts of Aeschylus in the Harry Potter SeriesL....249Brett M. Rogers, University of Puget Sound 10. Filthy Harpies and Fictive Knowledge in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy....281Antonia Syson, Purdue University 11. Girls in Bears' Clothing in Greek Mythology and Disney/Pixar's Brave...303Elizabeth Manwell, Kalamazoo College PART IV: (Post)Modern Fantasies of Antiquity 12. Fantasies of Mimnermos in Anne Carson's "The Brainsex Paintings" (Plainwater)....329Sasha-Mae Eccleston, Pomona College 13. Aeneas' American New World in Jo Graham's Black Ships.....354Jennifer A. Rea, University of Florida 14. Genre, Mimesis, and Virgilian Intertext in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire..........378Ayelet Haimson Lushkov, University of Texas-Austin Works Cited.... 403