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.

• Introduction: Fantasies of AntiquityBrett M. Rogers, University of Puget SoundBenjamin Eldon Stevens, Trinity UniversityPART I: Classical Apparitions in (Pre-)Modern Fantasy1. Classical Epic and the Poetics of Modern FantasyJesse Weiner, Hamilton College2. Theorizing Fantasy: Enchantment, Parody, and the Classical Tradition...58Cecilie Flugt, Danish Academy in Rome3. The Mirror Crack'd: Fractured Classicisms in the Pre-Raphaelites and Victorian Illustration....77Genevieve S. Gessert, American Academy in Rome4. Classical Antiquity and the Timeless Horrors of H. P. Lovecraft...... 109Robinson Peter Krämer, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität BonnPART II: False Medievalism & Other Ancient Fantasies5. Ancient Underworlds in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit...138Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Trinity University6. C. S. Lewis's The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader" and Apuleius' Metamorphoses...171Jeff Winkle, Calvin College7. 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 Monsters8. The Classical Pantheon in Children's Fantasy Literature ...224Sarah Annes Brown, Anglia Ruskin University9. Orestes & the Half-Blood Prince: Ghosts of Aeschylus in the Harry Potter SeriesL....249Brett M. Rogers, University of Puget Sound10. Filthy Harpies and Fictive Knowledge in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy....281Antonia Syson, Purdue University11. Girls in Bears' Clothing in Greek Mythology and Disney/Pixar's Brave...303Elizabeth Manwell, Kalamazoo CollegePART IV: (Post)Modern Fantasies of Antiquity12. Fantasies of Mimnermos in Anne Carson's "The Brainsex Paintings" (Plainwater)....329Sasha-Mae Eccleston, Pomona College13. Aeneas' American New World in Jo Graham's Black Ships.....354Jennifer A. Rea, University of Florida14. Genre, Mimesis, and Virgilian Intertext in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire..........378Ayelet Haimson Lushkov, University of Texas-AustinWorks Cited.... 403

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.