Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children’s Literature

Lisa Maurice, Ph.D (2000) is senior lecturer at Bar-Ilan University. She is the author of The Teacher in Ancient Rome: the Magister and His World (Lexington 2013), and has published many articles, both on Roman Comedy and on Classical Reception.Contributors are: Eran Almagor, Catherine Butler, Elizabeth Hale, Anthony Keen, Katarzyna Marciniak, Lisa Maurice, Mary McMenomy, Geoffrey Miles, Sheila Murnaghan, Joanna Paul, Deborah Roberts, Niall Slater and Barbara Weinlich.

"As a whole, The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children's Literature: Heroes and Eagles is a useful contribution to classical reception studies and an excellent piece of work. (...) This is an exciting area of study and the field is in desperate need of more of it to produce truly revolutionary scholarship. More books, more conferences, and more edited volumes like this one." Krishni Burns, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2016.05.26.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on Contributors Children, Greece and Rome: Heroes and Eagles Part 1 - Classics and Ideology in Children’s Literature1 Classics, Children’s Literature, and the Character of Childhood, from Tom Brown’s Schooldays to The Enchanted CastleElizabeth Hale2 ‘Time is only a mode of thought, you know’: Ancient History, Imagination and Empire in E. Nesbit’s Literature for ChildrenJoanna Paul3 (De)constructing Arcadia: Polish Struggles with History and Differing Colours of Childhood in the Mirror of Classical MythologyKatarzyna MarciniakPart 2 - Ancient Mythology, Modern Authors4 The Metanarrative of Picture Books: ‘Reading’ Greek Myth for (and to) ChildrenBarbara Weinlich5 Reading the Fiction of Video Games Mary McMenomy6 From Chiron to Foaly: The Centaur in Classical Mythology and Fantasy LiteratureLisa Maurice7 Classical Memories in C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia Niall W. SlaterPart 3 - Classical Mythology for Children8 Men into Pigs: Circe’s Transformations in Versions of The Odyssey for Children Sheila Murnaghan9 Chasing Odysseus in Twenty-First Century Children’s Fiction Geoffrey Miles10 The Metamorphosis of Ovid in Retellings of Myth for ChildrenDeborah H. RobertsPart 4 - Ancient Rome for Children11 The “Grand Tour” as Transformative Experience in Children’s Novels about the Roman Invasion Catherine Butler12 “Wulf the Briton”: Resisting Rome in a 1950s British Boys’ Adventure Strip Antony Keen13 Bridging the Gap between Generations: Astérix between Child and Adult, Classical and Modern Eran AlmagorBibliography Index