Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-194) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: face to face - locating classical receptions on screen / Anastasia Bakogianni and Ricardo Apostol -- Indirect or masked modysseys? Establishing a working set of criteria / Gregory N. Daugherty -- Sacrifical shadows: tragic Greek heroines reinvented for television in Buffy the vampire slayer and Game of thrones / Tania Evans and Amanda Potter -- Statues, synths, and simulacra: the Ovidian contours of screen Pygmalions / Paula James -- Artifacts, authenticity, and digital idols: the classical after-image in contemporary Hollywood stardom / Michael Williams -- From Album alitem to Black swan: Horace and Aronofsky on poetic perfection and death / Ricardo Apostol -- Shades of Ajax: in search of the tragic hero in modern war movies / Anastasia Bakogianni.
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