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Mythology & Literature
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Harry Potter and the Classical World by Richard A. SpencerPublication Date: 2015-06-29
J.K. Rowling has drawn deeply from classical sources to inform and color her Harry Potter novels, with allusions ranging from the obvious to the obscure. "Fluffy," the vicious three-headed dog in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, is clearly a repackaging of Cerberus, the hellhound of Greek and Roman mythology. But the significance of Rowling's quotation from Aeschylus at the front of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is a matter of speculation. Her use of classical material is often presented with irony and humor.
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Venus and Adonis: critical essays by Philip C. KolinPublication Date: 1997-02-01
Surveys the criticism of Shakespeare's long narrative poem by combining 19 works reprinted from the early 19th to the late 20th century, with seven original essays. They examine it, and its stage rendition, from such perspectives as Lacanian desire, semiotics and Elizabethan wardship, women readers.
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Silent urns : Romanticism, Hellenism, modernity by David S. FerrisPublication Date: 2000-01-01
The study of Greece as an icon of culture appears to be as old as Greece itself. In Silent Urns, the author reveals how Greece attained such significance as the result of the attempt to reconcile individuality, freedom, history, and modernity in eighteenth-century aesthetics. He argues that Winckelmann's History of Ancient Art (1764) produced this reconciliation by developing a concept of culture that effectively defined our modern understanding of the term, as well as our sense of what it is to be modern. Greece emerges as the form in which culture is first conceptualized as a historically and politically defined category.
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Classical Literature: A Very Short Introduction by William AllanPublication Date: 2014-04-15
In this Very Short Introduction, William Allan explores what the "classics" are and why they continue to shape our Western concepts of literature. Presenting a range of material from both Greek and Latin literature, he illustrates the variety and sophistication of these works, and considers examples from all the major genres.
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Grafting Helen: the abduction of the classical past by Matthew GumpertPublication Date: 2012-11-01
History is a love story: a tale of desire and jealousy, abandonment and fidelity, abduction and theft, rupture and reconciliation. This contention is central to Grafting Helen, Matthew Gumpert's original and dazzling meditation on Helen of Troy as a crucial anchor for much of Western thought and literature. Grafting Helen looks at "classicism"--the privileged rhetorical language for describing cultural origins in the West--as a protracted form of cultural embezzlement. No coin in the realm has been more valuable, more circulated, more coveted, or more counterfeited than the one that bears the face of Helen of Troy.
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Stateliest Measures: Tennyson and the literature of Greece and Rome by A. A. MarkleyPublication Date: 2004-01-01
Alfred, Lord Tennyson received an unusually thorough education in the classical languages, and he remained an active classical scholar throughout his lifetime. His intimate knowledge of both Greek and Latin literature left an indelible stamp on his poetry, both in terms of the sound and rhythm of his verses and in the themes that inspired him. "Stateliest Measures," the first full-length study of Tennyson's thematic and metrical uses of classical material, examines the profoundly important role that his classical background played as he fashioned himself into a poet in the 1820s and 30s, and as he defined himself as poet laureate as of 1850.
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Milton and the Tangles of Neaera's Hair: the making of the 1645 Poems by Stella Purce RevardPublication Date: 1997-01-01
Milton's 1645 Poems is a double volume, containing not only Milton's major English lyric poems - the Nativity ode, "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso," "Lycidas," and the mask Comusbut also his youthful elegiac poetry and his mature Latin poems, which were written in the late 1630s after his major English lyrics had already been composed. In Milton and the Tangles of Neaera's Hair, Stella P. Revard traces the development of the 1645 Poems as a double book and investigates the debt of both English and Latin poetry to the neo-Latin and vernacular traditions of the Continental Renaissance.
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Harry Potter and the Classical World by 
Venus and Adonis: critical essays by 
Silent urns : Romanticism, Hellenism, modernity by 
Classical Literature: A Very Short Introduction by 
Grafting Helen: the abduction of the classical past by 
Ulysses in Black: Ralph Ellison, classicism, and African American literature by 
Stateliest Measures: Tennyson and the literature of Greece and Rome by 
Chaucer's Legendary Good Women by 
Milton and the Tangles of Neaera's Hair: the making of the 1645 Poems by 
Shakespeare and the Uses of Antiquity: an introductory essay by