Frontmatter

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments VII
3. Contents IX
4. List of Figures XIII
5. Introduction: Classical Reception in the Early 2020s, Critical Times and Where to Next? 1
6. Part I: Concepts, Methods, and Intersections in Classical Reception
7. Section 1: Re-Thinking Classical Reception
8. The Master’s Tools?: Towards a Politics of Reception 23
9. Classics on the Surface: Classical Reception as an Emergent Process 41
10. Masked Celluloid Classics? Shadows of Clytemnestra in Film Noir 61
11. Section 2: Working with Archives
12. The “Advent of the New Rule”: An Oresteia (1947) in Prague and the Epistemological Limits of Archivalia 87
13. Karolos Koun’s Art Theatre, the Greek Dictatorship, and the Ford Foundation: From Handout to Handshake 119
14. Narcissus, Adonis, and Medusa: Troubled Beauty in Classical Receptions of Film Stardom 139
15. Section 3: Cultural Intersections
16. Mocking the Hollywood Epic Canon: Parodies of the Classical World from Latin American Cinema’s Studio Era 169
17. Suspended Temporalities and Classical Reception: Cassandra in Anne Carson’s Agamemnon 193
18. Manga and the Power of the Classical Object: The Merging of Eastern and Western Traditions 215
19. Part II: Classical Receptions in Response to Societal Challenges
20. Section 4: Forming and Re-Negotiating Identities
21. Cripping Venus: Intersections of Classics and Disability Studies in Contemporary Receptions of the Venus de Milo 239
22. Social Justice-Engaged Reception Pedagogy at Wake Forest University 265
23. Classics on the Italian Stage: Old Habits and ‘New Deals’ 279
24. Section 5: Greek Tragedy in a Time of Pandemic
25. Tragedy as an Open Network: Antigone in Ferguson (2016–) and The Nurse Antigone (2022–2023) 307
26. “Where’s the Body?”: Performing Iphigenia at Aulis in New Zealand during the Pandemic (2020) 329
27. Section 6: Engaging with Technology and the Wider Public
28. Escaping Hades: Playing with Classical Reception 357
29. Classical Reception Meets Pedagogy: The Creation and Uses of the Panoply Vase Animation Project's Our Mythical Childhood and Locus Ludi Animations 383
30. List of Contributors 409
31. Index 415