{"id":6722,"date":"2022-04-19T22:27:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T02:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/undergraduate-research-forum\/?p=6722"},"modified":"2022-04-19T23:07:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T03:07:53","slug":"b06-rewriting-marginality-depictions-of-greek-myth-in-contemporary-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/undergraduate-research-forum\/b06-rewriting-marginality-depictions-of-greek-myth-in-contemporary-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"B06: Rewriting Marginality: Depictions of Greek Myth in Contemporary Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In recent years, a notable number of novels that reimagine Ancient Greek mythology have been published and received considerable attention among popular audiences. These novels deserve equal attention by scholars in the field of classical reception, which focuses on the treatment and appropriation of ancient myth. Classical reception asks, what features of ancient myth have been altered or changed, and why? How is ancient myth being used to speak to contemporary societal values? Engaging with a developing scholarly conversation surrounding the work of contemporary women writers, this project uses the principles of classical reception to analyze recent novels that reimagine marginalized characters from Greek myth. Case studies of works such as The Penelopiad (2005) by Margaret Atwood and Circe (2018) by Madeline Miller illuminate the trend in first-person perspectives that aim to \u201creclaim\u201d women\u2019s voices. Both of these novels reimagine aspects of Homer\u2019s Odyssey, often considered a primary foundational work of Western thought and literature. Studying these texts as pieces of classical reception reveals \u201creclaiming\u201d fictional voices in effect produces new voices that rewrite aspects of ancient mythology in palimpsestuous ways. The trend in these approaches to ancient texts demonstrates a direct cultural response to the ways in which misogyny has become ingrained in Western culture and thought, often through harmful interpretations and abuses of classical texts. These novels display not only a change in how ancient myth is perceived by modern audiences, but a shift in overall cultural values as a result of contemporary social movements. Using myth as the medium to create new accounts that reflect present-day matters showcases how myth is a timeless communicative tool to discuss relevant social and political issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author: Macy Armagost<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Advisor: Denise McCoskey, French, Italian, and Classical Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In recent years, a notable number of novels that reimagine Ancient Greek mythology have been published and received considerable attention among popular audiences. These novels deserve equal attention by scholars in the field of classical reception, which focuses on the treatment and appropriation of ancient myth. Classical reception asks, what features of ancient myth have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[924,1,933,33],"tags":[1177,1176,1178,492],"class_list":["post-6722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2022-talks","category-projects","category-b01-11","category-english","tag-classical-studies","tag-classics","tag-english","tag-literature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbRpLx-1Kq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/undergraduate-research-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/undergraduate-research-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/undergraduate-research-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/undergraduate-research-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/undergraduate-research-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/undergraduate-research-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/undergraduate-research-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/undergraduate-research-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/undergraduate-research-forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}