Mythological Narratives: The Bold and Faithful Heroines of the Greek Novel (MythosEikonPoiesis, 8)

This book is about is about the bold, beautiful, and faithful heroines of the Greek novels and their mythical models, such as Iphigenia, Phaedra, Penelope, and Helen. The novels manipulate readerly expectations through a complex web of mythical variants and constantly negotiate their adventure and erotic plot with that of traditional myths becoming, thus, part of the imperial mythical revision to which they add the prospect of a happy ending Die Beiträge dieser gesamtaltertumswissenschaftlichen Reihe behandeln hauptsächlich Themen zur Antike aus dem Bereich der Literatur-, Bild-, Medien-, Theater-, Religions- und Kulturwissenschaften. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Anwendung moderner Theorien, z. B. auf dem Gebiet der Anthropologie, Performativität und Narrativität, auf dem interdisziplinären Vergleich, auf der mythisch-rituellen und ikonischen Poetik von Texten und bildlichen Darstellungen sowie auf der Rezeption antiker Stoffe in diesem Kontext This book is about the bold, beautiful, and faithful heroines of the Greek novels and their mythical models, such as Iphigenia, Phaedra, Penelope, and Helen. The novels manipulate readerly expectations through a complex web of mythical variants and constantly negotiate their adventure and erotic plot alongside traditional myths. In doing so, they become part of the imperial mythical revision to which they add the prospect of a happy ending. Book jacket Preface and Acknowledgements 7 Contents 9 Introduction 11 The bold and virginal: Iphigenia 35 The bold and unfaithful: Phaedra 118 The bold and the faithful: Penelope and Helen 186 Epilogue 320 Bibliography 331 Index locorum notabiliorum 359 Index rerum/nominum notabiliorum 364 Anna Lefteratou. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.