Gender, Creation Myths and their Reception in Western Civilization: Prometheus, Pandora, Adam and Eve

Cover
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
CONTENTS
FIGURES AND TABLES
CONTRIBUTORS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
	Notes
PART I VISUAL SYMBOLISM: THE ICONOGRAPHY OF CREATION
CHAPTER 1 THE USE OF PROMETHEUS AS AN EXEMPLAR IN THIRD-CENTURY ROME
	Notes
CHAPTER 2 INNOCENT IN SENSE AND IN BODY: ADAM AND EVE IN THEIR MANDORLAS (FOURTH CENTURY-THIRTEENTH CENTURY)
	A Roman debt
	Latin consciousness
	Overcoming Prometheus
	Notes
CHAPTER 3 PROMETHEUS PLASTICATOR: RECEPTIONS OF THE CREATION MYTHEME IN ART
	Prometheus plasticator
	Prometheus plasticator and Christianity
	Renaissance reception
	Post-Renaissance and modern receptions
	Notes
PART II CREATION NARRATIVES AS A MODEL FOR MARRIAGE
CHAPTER 4 EVE AND PANDORA: MYTHS IN DIALOGUE
	1. The myth of Prometheus and Pandora
	2. The Jewish myth (Bible and Midrash)17
	3. The Jewish myth and the Greek myth
	Conclusion
	Notes
CHAPTER 5 TEMPTING TREASURES AND SEDUCTIVE SNAKES: PRESENTING EVE AND PANDORA FOR THE YOUNGEST READERS
	Pandora
	Eve
	Presenting Eve and Pandora for the youngest readers
	Notes
CHAPTER 6 THEMATIC INTERCULTURAL CORRESPONDENCE ON THE CREATION OF THE PERFECT WOMAN AND THE FALLING IN LOVE WITH HER (OVID, IBN HAZM, IBN HASDAI, IBN ZAKBAL AND ALHARIZI)
	The doctrine of love according to Ibn Hazm
	On falling in love while asleep or based on a description
	Discussion and examples: Variations of Hebrew literature from the Middle Ages
	Conclusion
	Notes
PART III PANDORA, EVE AND THE FEMININE IDEAL
CHAPTER 7 ADAM AND EVE: REFLECTIONS ON A RELATIONSHIP
	The uneven relationship between man and woman
	God and human beings
	Notes
CHAPTER 8 EVE, THE FIRST WOMAN: ON CHOICE AND RESPONSIBILITY
	The character of Eve in light of the interpretations of the story about her creation in Chapter 2
	The character of Eve in light of the interpretations of the story about the sin in chapter 3
	Eve as creator: An additional look at Eve – Genesis 4
	Summary
	Notes
CHAPTER 9 ABSOLVING EVE: MEDIEVAL WOMEN WRITERS REMODELLING THE CREATION AND THE FALL1
	Marie de France, ‘Del reclus e del vilein’ (Of the Hermit and the Peasant)
	The Lady, La response du Bestiaire (The Response to the Bestiary of Love)
	Jehan Le Fevre, Le livre de Leesce (The Book of Gladness)
	Conclusion
	Notes
PART IV IDEOLOGICAL MANIPULATIONS OF THE CREATION NARRATIVE
CHAPTER 10 A STORY OF ADAM AND EVE FOR SOVIET CHILDREN AND ADULTS: THE DIVINE COMEDY , A PUPPET SHOW BASED ON THE BIBLE
	The Divine Comedy
	The Lilith tradition
	The reception of Lilith in the Divine Comedy
	Eve in the Divine Comedy
	Social commentary in the Divine Comedy
	Conclusion
	Notes
CHAPTER 11 GENDER ARCHETYPES AND NATIONAL AGENDAS IN THE HEBREW CREATION MYTH OF THE DAFFODIL
	Notes
CHAPTER 12 GENESIS 3.15 AND 16 AND THE STATE OF ISRAEL
	The texts: Genesis 3.15–16
	‘And he shall rule over you’
	‘I will put enmity between you and the woman’
	In short and in summation
	Notes
PART V POSTMODERN RECEPTIONS
CHAPTER 13 ‘THE BEAUTIFUL TRAP INSIDE US’: PANDORAN SCIENCE FICTION AND POSTHUMAN PERSONHOOD
	Overview
	Mimetic creation and memetic reception histories
	Pandora’s psyche and other (femme) fatal(e) anti-Prometheanisms
	Pandora’s posthumanity in some recent scholarship
	‘Pandora’s kopis’ and Atlantean ‘Hope’ in Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey
	‘You open the box and you fi nd yourself there’: Unboxing Pandoras in Ex Machina (etc.) and The Girl with All the Gifts
	Anti-Promethean posthumankind
	Revolutionary Pandoran replicants in Ridley Scott
	Notes
CHAPTER 14 RIDLEY SCOTT’S PROMETHEUS AND THE HUMAN PANDORA*
	Analysis of the film
	Scholarship on the film
	Conclusion
	Notes
CHAPTER 15 PANDORA’S SPLIT: READING THE MYTH OF PANDORA IN CRUEL BEAUTY
	Pandora and the idea of gender differentiation
	Pandora and gender transformations
	Cruel Beauty: Synopsis14
	The emergence of Pandora in Cruel Beauty
	The prince and Carl Jung’s theory of the shadow
	Resisting the gender binary
	A new paradigm
	Notes
CHAPTER 16 ADAM THE ALIEN, EVE THE ROBOT: THE REINTERPRETATION OF ADAM, EVE, PROMETHEUS AND PANDORA IN JAPANESE MANGA AND ANIME
	Japanese creation myths
	A brief look at Christianity in Japan
	Adam and Eve in manga and anime
	Prometheus and Pandora in manga
	Conclusion
	Notes
CONCLUSION
	Notes
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX