Ancient magic and the supernatural in the modern visual and performing arts

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• List of Illustrations = vii
• List of Contributors = ix
• 1 Magic and the Supernatural from the Ancient World : An Introduction / Irene Berti ; Filippo Carlà = 1
• 2 Gods and Demons in Texts : Figures and Symbols of the Defixion Inscriptions of the Nymphaeum of Anna Perenna at Rome / Jürgen Blänsdorf = 19
• 3 Imaging Magic, Imaging Thinking : The Transmission of Greek Drama from Sophocles to Crimp / Lorna Hardwick = 39
• 4 Celtic Magic and Rituals in The War Lord(F. Schaffner, 1965) / Domitilla Campanile = 55
• 5 Witch, Sorceress, Enchantress : Magic and Women from the Ancient World to the Present / Giovanna Rocca ; Martina Treu = 67
• 6 Circe Diva : The Reception of Circe in the Baroque Opera(seventeenth century) / Pepa Castillo Pascual = 79
• 7 Medea, a Greek Sorceress in Modern Opera and Ballet : From Barber to Reimann / Jesús Carruesco ; Montserrat Reig = 93
• 8 Colchian Pharmaka : The Colours of Medea in Nineteenth-century Painting in France and England / Adeline Grand-Clément ; Charlotte Ribeyrol = 103
• 9 Canidia and Erichtho : Snapshots from their Postclassical Life / Christine Walde = 119
• 10 Project(ion) Wonder Woman : Metamorphoses of a Superheroine / Andreas Gietzen ; Marion Gindhart = 135
• 11 Ancient Horrors : Cinematic Antiquity and the Undead / Martin Lindner = 151
• 12 The Phoenix, the Werewolf and the Centaur : The Reception of Mythical Beasts in the Harry Potter Novels and their Film Adaptations / Dagmar Hofmann = 163
• 13 Theoi Becoming Kami : Classical Mythology in the Anime World / Maria G. Castello ; Carla Scilabra = 177
• 14 Everypony Has a Story : Revisions of Greco-Roman Mythology in My Little Pony : Friendship is Magic / Priscilla Hobbs = 197
• 15 The Depraved Devotion of Elagabalus : Images of the Priest-emperor in the Visual and Performing Arts / Martijn Icks = 211
• 16 Women and Religion in Epic Films : The Fifties' Advocate for Christian Conversion and Today's Pillar of Paganism? / Anja Wieber = 225
• Notes = 241
• Bibliography = 293
• Index = 325