Remembering the Founding of Thebes in French Medieval Texts from the Roman de Thèbes to the Ovide moralisé (Twelfth–Early Fourteenth Century)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. I Written Engagements with Antiquity
5. Embodiment and Epistemics in the Composition/Transmission of Ancient Texts 19
6. Intertwined Memories of Roman Emperors in Early Medieval Iberia 37
7. Remembering the Founding of Thebes in French Medieval Texts from the Roman de Thèbes to the Ovide moralisé (Twelfth–Early Fourteenth Century) 55
8. The “Stones of Sacrifice” as a Literary Trope in the Works of Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) and Mona Caird (1854–1932) 75
9. II Deconstructing the Image of Antiquity
10. Homer, Homoeroticism, Homecoming: Memories of Antiquity in the Photography of the Baron von Gloeden 91
11. Memories of Whiteness: Classical Statuary and the New Medical Norm 123
12. III Remembering Antiquity in Contemporary Popular Culture
13. The Spaniard and the South: Lost Causes and Nostalgia in Gladiator (2000) 145
14. Imagining a Greco-Roman Empire in Space: Atlantean Resonances in Friends at the Table’s Divine Cycle 163
15. The Authors
16. Index