A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology [Hardcover]

• Reveals the importance of mythography to the survival, dissemination, and popularization of classical myth from the ancient world to the present day
• Features chronologically organized essays that address different sets of myths that were important in each historical era, along with their thematic relevance
• Features chronologically organized essays that address different sets of myths that were important in each historical era, along with their thematic relevance
• Offers a series of carefully selected in-depth readings, including both popular and less well-known examples

Notes on Contributors ix

Introduction 1
Vanda Zajko

Part I Mythography 13

1 Greek Mythography 15
Robert L. Fowler

2 Roman Mythography 29
Gregory Hays

3 Myth and the Medieval Church 43
James G. Clark

4 The Renaissance Mythographers 59
John Mulryan

5 Bulfinch and Graves: Modern Mythography as Literary Reception 75
John Talbot

6 Myth Collections for Children 87
Sheila Murnaghan and Deborah H. Roberts

7 Contemporary Mythography: In the Time of Ancient Gods, Warlords, and Kings 105
Ika Willis

Part II Approaches and Themes 121

8 Circean Enchantments and the TralÇ