Cinema and Classical Texts: Apollo's New Light

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Introduction: The god of light and the cinema eye
Chapter 1 A certain tendency in classical philology
	Films as visual texts
	Authorship: ancient auctor and cinematic auteur
	The cinema of poetry
	Philologia classica et cinematographica: from classical philology to film philology
Chapter 2 Divine epiphanies: Apollo and the Muses
	God of light, god of cinema
	Apollo and oracles
	Apollo's last frontier
	The muse's inspiration
	Terpsichore's epiphany
	Down to earth again
	The return of apollo
Chapter 3 The complexities of Oedipus
	From myth to freud
	Epic
	Tragedy
	Comedy
Chapter 4 Patriotism and war: "Sweet and fitting it is to die for one's country"
	Homer, horace, and the heroic tradition
	Chivalry and classical culture in world war i
	Simonides in the great war and in vietnam
	Homer, thucydides, and horace in world war ii
	What price glory?
Chapter 5 Helen of Troy: Marriage and adultery according to Hollywood
	Greek myth americanized
	Wolfgang petersen’s troy and robert wise’s helen of troy
	John kent harrison’s helen of troy
	Innocent helen: palinodes from stesichorus to hollywood
Chapter 6 Women in love
	From innocence to experience: chloe in pleasantville
	Seduction by luxury: cleopatra and her royal barge
	Princess death
Epilogue: "Bright shines the light"
Bibliography
Index