Originally published in 1996, this volume contains essays by scholars, critics and translators and includes themes such as the myth in the Cretan Renaissance and the use of ancient myth by 19th and 20th Century poets. Some essays deal with individual mythical figures such as Odysseus, Orpheus, Prometheus and Aphrodite, while others deal with the problematic issue of the use of myth by Greek women poets. The discussion is completed by comparing attitudes to the ancient Greeks as embodied in English and modern Greek poetry.
Originally published in 1996, this volume contains essays by scholars, critics and translators and includes themes such as the myth in the Cretan Renaissance and the use of ancient myth by 19th and 20th Century poets.
1. Introduction Peter Mackridge
2. From the Poem For Constantine
Trypanis Peter Levi
3. The Function of Myth in Cretan Renaissance Poetry:
The Cases of Achelis and Kornaros David Holton
4. The Idea of the Hero in
Ancient and Nineteenth-Century Greek Poetry N. J. Richardson
5. Palamas and
the Ancient Myth of the Poet David Ricks
6. Cavafys Mythical Ephebes Sarah
Ekdawi
7. An Approach to the Meaning of Myth in the Poetry of Sikelianos
Philip Sherrard
8. Seferis and the Myth of Adonis Katerina Krikos-Davis
9.
Ritsoss Orestes: The Politics of Myth and the Anarchy of Rhetoric Dimitris
Tziovas
10. Nostos and the Poets Vision in Seferis and Ritsos Edmund Keeley
11. The Theme of the Second Odyssey in Cavafy and Sinopoulos Michael Pieris
12. Helen or Penelope? Women Writers, Myth and the Problem of Gender Roles
Christopher Robinson
13. Bruised Necks and Crumpled Petticoats: Whats Left
of Myth in Contemporary Greek Womens Poetry Karen Van Dyck
14. Aphrodite at
War: The Wartime Poetry of Embirikos, Kaknavatos, Papatsonis and Seferis
Roderick Beaton
15. The Changing Face of Orpheus: From Greek Romanticism to
the Prague Spring Elli Philokyprou
16. The Prometheus Myth in Modern Greek
Poetry and Drama: An Outline and Two Examples Yorgis Yatromanolakis
17. The
Anxiety of Influence in Greek and English Poetry Peter Bien. Index of
Mythical Characters.
Peter Mackridge was Professor of Modern Greek at Oxford University.
