Son of Classics and Comics

George Kovacs is Assistant Professor of Ancient History and Classics at Trent University in Peterborough, Canada.C. W. Marshall is Professor of Greek at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.Together, they have co-edited Classics and Comics (OUP, 2011) and No Laughing Matter: Studies in Athenian Comedy (BCP, 2012).

• Introduction. ; C. W. Marshall and George Kovacs ; Postmodern Odysseys ; 1. Odysseus and The Infinite Horizon ; C. W. Marshall ; 2. Mythic Totality in Age of Bronze ; George Kovacs ; 3. Classical Symbolism in Asterios Polyp ; Abram Fox and HyoSil Suzy Hwang-Eschelbacher ; East's Wests ; 4. Mecha in Olympus: Masamune Shirow's Appleseed ; Gideon Nisbet ; 5. [un]Reading the Odyssey in Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind ; Nicholas Theisen ; 6. Xerxes, Lost City in the Desert: ; Classical Allusions in Fullmetal Alchemist ; Sara Raup Johnson ; All Gaul ; 7. Re-inventing the Barbarian: ; Classical Ethnographic Perceptions in Asterix ; Eran Almagor ; 8. Asterix and the Dream of Autochthony ; Stuart Barnett ; 9. We're not in Gaul Anymore: the Global Translation of Asterix ; Siobhan McElduff ; Modern Classics ; 10. Classical Allusion in Modern British Political Cartoons ; Ian Runacres and Michael K. Mackenzie ; 11. Eliot with an Epic, Rowson with a Comic: ; Recycling Foundational Narratives ; Frederick Williams and Edward Brunner ; 12. Ozymandias the Dreamer: Watchmen and Alexander the Great ; Matthew Taylor ; 13. And They Call That Poison Food: ; Desire and Traumatic Spectatorship in the Lucifer Retelling of Genesis ; Kate Polak ; Bibliography

Studies presented by George Kovacz and C. W. Marshall in their book show current comics as very complicated works, which are in no way lacking when compared with current prose. Classic philologists may be cured by this book from their notion that comics are only rather and easy play for children who are too lazy to read.