Reception of Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture

Eran Almagor, Ph.D. (Hebrew University, 2007) is author of papers and chapters on the Achaemenid Empire, Ctesias, Plutarch, Strabo, Josephus, and the reception of antiquity in modern popular culture. Co-editor of Ancient Ethnography: New Approaches (London, 2013).Lisa Maurice, Ph.D. (2001) is senior lecturer at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. She is the author of The Teacher in Ancient Rome: The Magister and His World (Lexington 2013), the editor of The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children’s Literature: Heroes and Eagles (Brill 2015), Rewriting the Ancient World: Greeks, Romans, Jews and Christians in Modern Popular Fiction (Brill 2017), and has published many articles, both on Roman Comedy and on Classical Reception. Contributors are: Eran Almagor, Luca Asmonti, Gabriel Danzig, Anna Foka, Ariadne Konstantinou, Anggeliki Koumanoudi, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Lisa Maurice, Panayiota Mini, Maria Pretzler, Hanna Roisman, David Schaps, Emma Southon, Emma Stafford, Haim Weiss

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular CultureEran Almagor and Lisa Maurice Part 1: Re-enacting Ancient Virtues and VicesSection 1: Staging Ancient Virtues and VicesThe House of Atreus as a Reflection of Contemporary Evil: Performance Reception and The OresteiaLisa Maurice2 Thornton Wilder’s The Alcestiad or A Life in the Sun Hanna Roisman3 Herodotus on Stage: The Modern Greek Play “Candaules’ Wife” by Margarita Liberaki Ariadne KonstantinouSection 2: Screening Ancient Virtues and Vices4 Can You Dig It? Heroes and Villains from Xenophon’s Anabasis to Walter Hill’s The Warriors (1979) Eran Almagor5 Hercules’ Choice: Virtue, Vice and the Hero of the Twentieth-century Screen Emma Stafford6 Deconstructing Oedipus: Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite and the Classical Tradition Anna Foka7 Caligula and Drusilla in the Modern Imagination Emma Southon8 “Salome, Nice Girl”: Rita Hayworth and the Problem of the Hollywood Biblical Vamp Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones9 Representations of the Christian Female Virtue in Roman Film Epics: The Sign of the Cross (1932) and Quo Vadis (1951) Panayiota MiniPart 2: Ancient Virtues and Vices in the Modern WorldSection 2: Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Greece10 Philip, Alexander and Macedonia: Between Greek Virtue and Barbarian Pleasure Maria Pretzler11 From Giscard d’Estaing to Syntagma Square: The Use and Abuse of Ancient Greece in the Debate on Greece’s eu membership Luca Asmonti12 The Great God Pan Never Dies! Aggeliki KoumanoudiSection 2: Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Jewish Existence13 In These Days, in That Season: The Nationalization of the Maccabees David M. Schaps14 A Double Edged Sword—The Power of Bar-Kosibah: From Rabbinic Literature to Popular Culture Haim Weiss15 What Has Rome to Do with Jerusalem? The Reception of Turnus Rufus and Rabbi Akivah in the Talmud and in Contemporary Israel Gabriel DanzigBibliographyIndex