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Stachon, Markus, Lipscomb, Antonella and Kolovou, Penelope (Eds.): Antiquity in Progress: Intermedial Presences of Ancient Mediterranean Cultures in the Modern World, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2025. https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1432

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02/12/2025

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Markus Stachon (Ed.), Antonella Lipscomb (Ed.), Penelope Kolovou (Ed.)

Antiquity in Progress:

Intermedial Presences of Ancient Mediterranean Cultures in the Modern World

This interdisciplinary volume aims at illustrating the presence of ancient myths and ideas in 20th and 21st century culture. Ten case studies which deal with a wide range of different genres such as theatre productions, pop music, and photography, are framed by two theoretical essays.

Dr Markus Stachon is a lecturer at the Institute of Ancient Studies of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. His current research focuses on the musical reception of ancient literature.

Dr Antonella Lipscomb has been a lecturer at the Universities of Oxford, Castilla-La Mancha and Antonio de Nebrija. Her academic work focuses on Myth Criticism and French Contemporary Autobiography.

Penelope Kolovou completed her studies in Classics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the University of Vienna. She is currently teaching at the University of Bielefeld.   

Chapters

Table of Contents
Pages
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Titelei
Contents
v-vi
List of Figures
vii-viii
Introduction
Markus Stachon
Has Classical Antiquity Ever Ended?
Reception, Memory, and Cultural Evolution
3-9
Part I: Ancient Myth-History in Pop-Cultural Discourses
Chris Bishop
An Unconscious Reception of Homer’s Odyssey – Marvel’s Silver Surfer
13-30
Hanna Paulouskaya
Soviet Argonauts: Sailing to the Coasts of Colchis in Soviet Film
31-48
Fabien Bièvre-Perrin
Nefertiti, a Political Queen for XXIst Century’s Pop
49-60
Part II: Greco-Roman Myths on Modern Stages
Anna Maria Cimino
The Resistance of Memory, the Memory of Resistance: Stories of Italian Partisans through the Lens of the Aeneid
63-74
Natasha Remoundou
Savage Memory, Technologies of Necropower, Feminist Decolonial Resistance: A Palestinian Antigone in Ireland
75-94
Aaron M. Seider
Epic Remembrances: Contesting the Gender of Memory in Kae Tempest’s Brand New Ancients and Tessa Hadley’s ‘Dido’s Lament’
95-111
Part III: Stories of Classical Antiquity in Pictures and Places
Irene (Rena) Fatsea
Reconstructing Memory from Ruins: The Athenian Academy by Theophil Hansen as a Modern ‘Lieu de Mémoire’
115-152
Sophie Emilia Seidler
Quid vertit Vertumnus? Picasso’s Transformation of Ovid’s Tale of Pomona and Vertumnus (Met. 14)
153-170
Helena González-Vaquerizo
From Winckelmann to Flickr: The Picture that Took Greece’s Soul
171-190
Riccardo Ginevra
There’s a Town in Sicily Where Greek Heroes Go to Die: The ‘Tomb of Minos’ at the Gurfa Caves and Alia’s Need for a Mythical Past
191-214
Part IV: Afterthought
José Manuel Losada
Cultural Myth Criticism: Theory and Methodology
217-228
Notes on Contributors
229-233

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