Classical myth and film have a long history of being intertwined, as myth was made into film from...
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Ovid’s Metamorphoses was written during the Augustan period, and it is clear that its author was...
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Greek Myth at Rome: Metamorphosis
Ovid’s Metamorphoses is one of the most significant ancient texts for the study of Greek...
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Although Ancient Rome was clearly a patriarchal society (literally so, as the father had supreme...
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Rome’s mythic history is littered with heroes who exemplify positive and negative ways of...
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Rome II: Asylum: Romulus and Remus
Romulus was revered as the founding hero of Rome, later made a god, but his myth is not without...
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Rome was famously founded by Romulus in 753 BCE, but that’s not the end of the story, for the...
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Incest, fratricide and patricideare central to the Theban myths explored in Athenian tragedy,...
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Thebes, in central Greece, had its own distinctive foundation myths, which combined divine...
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Founding Athens II: Ion and Origin Myths in Tragedy
Mythological stories dramatized in Athenian tragedy provide us with a good opportunity to explore...
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Founding Athens I: Creating History
Origins of cities and peoples are an important component of Greek mythology, and were central to...
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