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

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