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 Frontmatter -- Preface and Acknowledgements / Lefteratou, Anna -- Contents -- Introduction -- The bold and virginal: Iphigenia -- The bold and unfaithful: Phaedra -- The bold and the faithful: Penelope and Helen -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index locorum notabiliorum -- Index rerum/nominum notabiliorum Anna Lefteratou. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.