A handbook to the reception of classical mythology

Content: Title Page
 Copyright Page
 Contents
 Notes on Contributors
 Introduction
 Part I Mythography
 Chapter 1 Greek Mythography
 Beginnings and Classical Mythography
 Post-classical Mythography 
 Closing Thoughts
 Guide to Further Reading
 References
 Chapter 2 Roman Mythography
 Introduction
 Surviving Texts
 A Case Study: The Mythographic Midas
 From Narrative to Interpretation: Fulgentius
 Afterlife
 Notes
 Guide to Further Reading
 References
 Chapter 3 Myth and the Medieval Church
 Guide to Further Reading
 References
 Chapter 4 The Renaissance Mythographers
 Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) Ludovicus Caelius Rhodiginus (1453-1525), Alexandro ab Alexandro (1463-1525)Georgius Pictor (1500-1569)
 Montifalchius
 Julianus Aurelius Havrech
 Lilio Gregorio Giraldi (1479-1552)
 Vincenzo Cartari (1502?-1570?)
 Natale Conti
 François Pomey (1618-1673)
 The Occult Tradition
 Conceptions of Myth in the Renaissance Mythographers
 Translations
 Notes
 Guide to Further Reading
 References
 Chapter 5 Bulfinch and Graves: Modern Mythography as Literary Reception
 Notes
 Guide to Further Reading
 References
 Chapter 6 Myth Collections for Children
 Guide to Further Reading
 References Chapter 7 Contemporary Mythography: In the Time of Ancient Gods, Warlords, and KingsIntroduction
 Echo
 Popular Culture and/as Myth
 Myth Only Produces More Myth
 This is Going to Make a Great Story
 Conclusion
 Notes
 Guide to Further Reading
 References
 Primary sources
 Film
 Novels
 Videogame
 TV shows
 Fanfiction
 Comics and graphic novels
 Secondary sources
 Part II Approaches and Themes
 Chapter 8 Circean Enchantments and the Transformations of Allegory
 Double Vision
 Corrective Lenses
 Prisms
 Scattered Beams
 Notes
 Guide to Further Reading
 References Chapter 9 The Comparative ApproachThe Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
 Smith, Frazer, Harrison
 The Aftermath of the Ritualists
 The Eranos Set
 Walter Burkert: Biological Programs and the Orientalizing Revolution
 Looking for Difference: Smith, Lincoln, and Doniger
 Notes
 Guide to Further Reading
 References
 Chapter 10 Revisionism
 Notes
 Chapter 11 Alchemical Interpretations of Classical Myths
 Historical Background
 \"Poetic Theology,\" \"Prisca Theologia,\" and Renaissance Alchemy
 Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Survival of the Alchemical Readings of Classical Myths An Example of the Diversity of Alchemical Exegeses of MythsThe Classical Scholarship of the Alchemists
 Alchemical elaborations on classical myths
 Responses of mythographs to the alchemical exegesis of myths
 Notes
 Guide to Further Reading
 References
 Chapter 12 Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: On the Gods of Greece, Italy, and India
 Notes
 Guide to Further Reading
 References
 Chapter 13 The Golden Age
 Notes
 Guide to Further Reading
 Appendix
 Terminology
 References
 Chapter 14 Matriarchy and Utopia
 Guide to Further Reading
 References
 Part III Myth, Creativity, and the Mind