Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
List of Figures
Introduction
Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos
I. Helen
1: Bella Vivante: Gazing at Helen: Helen as Polysemous Icon in
Robert Wise's Helen of Troy and Michael Cacoyannis' The Trojan
Women
2: Ruby Blondell: 'Third Cheerleader from the Left': From Homer's
Helen to Helen of Troy
II. Medea
3: Kirk Ormand: Medea's Erotic Text in Jason and the Argonauts
(1963)
4: Susan O. Shapiro: Pasolini's Medea: A Twentieth Century
Tragedy
5: Annette M. Baertschi: Rebel and Martyr: The Medea of Lars von
Trier
III. Penelope
6: Joanna Paul: 'Madonna and Whore': The Many Faces of Penelope in
Camerini's Ulisse (1954)
7: Edith Hall: Why is Penelope Still Waiting? The Missing Feminist
Reappraisal of the Odyssey in Cinema: 1963-2007
IV. Other Mythical Women
8: Arthur J. Pomeroy: The Women of Ercole
9: Anastasia Bakogianni: Annihilating Clytemnestra: The Severing of
the Mother-Daughter Bond in Michael Cacoyannis' Iphigenia
(1977)
10: Hallie Rebecca Marshall: Mythic Women in Tony Harrison's
Prometheus
V. Historical Women
11: Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos: Between Family and the Nation:
Gorgo in the Cinema
12: Kirsten Day: Representing Olympias: The Politics of Gender in
Cinematic Treatments of Alexander the Great
13: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones: 'An Almost All Greek Thing': Cleopatra
VII and Hollywood Imagination
Bibliography
Index
Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos is Assistant Professor of Latin and Ancient Studies at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. He has published a number of articles in the fields of Roman elegy, ancient history on film, and the classical tradition in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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