LEADER 04385nam 2200457 450 001 9910494588303321 005 20210406120415.0 010 $a90-04-34772-0 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004347724 035 $a(CKB)3710000001444445 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4933684 035 $a2017040194 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004347724 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001444445 100 $a20170824d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe reception of ancient virtues and vices in modern popular culture$b[e-book] $ebeauty, bravery, blood and glory /$fedited by Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice 210 1$aLeiden ;$aBoston :$cBrill,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (438 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aMetaforms: studies in the reception of classical antiquity ;$vv. 11 311 $a90-04-34771-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tIntroduction: Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture /$rEran Almagor and Lisa Maurice --$tRe-enacting Ancient Virtues and Vices /$rEran Almagor and Lisa Maurice --$tStaging Ancient Virtues and Vices /$rEran Almagor and Lisa Maurice --$tThe House of Atreus as a Reflection of Contemporary Evil: Performance Reception and The Oresteia /$rLisa Maurice --$tThornton Wilder?s The Alcestiad or A Life in the Sun /$rHanna M. Roisman --$tHerodotus on Stage: The Modern Greek Play ?Candaules? Wife? by Margarita Liberaki /$rAriadne Konstantinou --$tScreening Ancient Virtues and Vices /$rEran Almagor and Lisa Maurice --$tCan You Dig It? Heroes and Villains from Xenophon?s Anabasis to Walter Hill?s The Warriors (1979) /$rEran Almagor --$tHercules? Choice: Virtue, Vice and the Hero of the Twentieth-Century Screen /$rEmma Stafford --$tDeconstructing Oedipus: Woody Allen?s Mighty Aphrodite and the Classical Tradition /$rAnna Foka --$tCaligula and Drusilla in the Modern Imagination /$rEmma Southon --$t?Salome, Nice Girl?: Rita Hayworth and the Problem of the Hollywood Biblical Vamp /$rLloyd Llewellyn-Jones --$tRepresentations of the Christian Female Virtue in Roman Film Epics: The Sign of the Cross (1932) and Quo Vadis (1951) /$rPanayiota Mini --$tAncient Virtues and Vices in the Modern World /$rEran Almagor and Lisa Maurice --$tAncient Virtues and Vices in Modern Greece /$rEran Almagor and Lisa Maurice --$tPhilip, Alexander and Macedonia: Between Greek Virtue and Barbarian Pleasure /$rMaria Pretzler --$tFrom Giscard d?Estaing to Syntagma Square: The Use and Abuse of Ancient Greece in the Debate on Greece?s eu Membership /$rLuca Asmonti --$tThe Great God Pan Never Dies! /$rAggeliki Koumanoudi --$tAncient Virtues and Vices in Modern Jewish Existence /$rEran Almagor and Lisa Maurice --$tIn These Days, in That Season: The Nationalization of the Maccabees /$rDavid M. Schaps --$tA Double Edged Sword?The Power of Bar-Kosibah: From Rabbinic Literature to Popular Culture /$rHaim Weiss --$tWhat Has Rome to Do with Jerusalem? The Reception of Turnus Rufus and Rabbi Akivah in the Talmud and in Contemporary Israel /$rGabriel Danzig. 330 $aIn Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture , Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice offer a comprehensive collection of chapters dealing with the reception of antiquity in popular media of the modern era (19th-21st centuries). These media include theatrical plays, cinematic representations, Television drama, popular newspapers or journals, poems and outdoor festivals. For the first time in Classical Reception Studies, ancient Jewish literature and imagery are included in the discussion. The focus of the volume is both the continuity and variance between ancient and modern sets of values, which appear in the new interpretations of the ancient stories, figures and protagonists. 410 0$aMetaforms$v11. 606 $aCivilization, Classical, in mass media 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCivilization, Classical, in mass media. 676 $a809.933583 701 $aAlmagor$b Eran$01049632 701 $aMaurice$b Lisa$f1968-$0931019 801 0$bNL-LeKB 801 1$bNL-LeKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910494588303321 996 $aThe reception of ancient virtues and vices in modern popular culture$92478824 997 $aUNINA