Ellen Söderblom Saarela – författare

challenges our own position as scholars and pressing contemporary social and political concerns such as women’s subjectification and objectification, embodiment, feminism, and neo-liberalism. Re-reading the classics from different perspectives is both vital and unavoidable in a modern world. It is necessary for the survival of the classics, and maybe for our intellectual survival as well.

This volume ensues from the conference Enchanted reception: Religion and the supernatural in medieval Troy narratives, held at Ghent University in June 2021 and organized by the two co-editors of this publication. We would like to thank all participants for the fruitful exchanges that took place on that occasion, as well as all the authors for their enthusiasm for contributing to this volume. Special thanks go to Prof. Ingela Nilsson and the Studia Graeca Upsaliensia series in Sweden, who have made this publication possible. The conference and this volume have received funding from the European Research Council project Novel Echoes at Ghent University, as well as from the Flanders Research Foundation, the Special Research Fund of Ghent University, Åke Wibergs stiftelse and Stiftelsen Konung Gustaf VI Adolfs fond för svensk kultur.