Afroditi-Maria Panaghis was educated in Egypt, Greece, and the United States. She has taught in the United States and is currently Professor of English at the University of Athens (Greece). She is the author of many articles that cover a wide spectrum of English, American, and Continental literature; four monographs; a translated novel; and many poems.

• Contents: Sir Henry Rider Haggard – Death – Fin de siècle – Legend of Cleopatra – Carl G. Jung’s archetypes – Christian concepts – Ancient Egyptian history – Roman Empire – Jean Baudrillard’s theory of simulation – Walter Pater’s principle of flux – Mircea Eliade’s view of transformation – Joseph Campbell’s concept of the hero – Allegory and symbolism.

Afroditi-Maria Panaghis was educated in Egypt, Greece, and the United States. She has taught in the United States and is currently Professor of English at the University of Athens (Greece). She is the author of many articles that cover a wide spectrum of English, American, and Continental literature; four monographs; a translated novel; and many poems.

• Contents: Sir Henry Rider Haggard – Death – Fin de siècle – Legend of Cleopatra – Carl G. Jung’s archetypes – Christian concepts – Ancient Egyptian history – Roman Empire – Jean Baudrillard’s theory of simulation – Walter Pater’s principle of flux – Mircea Eliade’s view of transformation – Joseph Campbell’s concept of the hero – Allegory and symbolism.