Allusions and reflections
Subtitle: Greek and Roman mythology in Renaissance Europe
By: edited by Elizabeth Wåghäill Nivre ; with Anna Carlstedt [and 5 others] ; editorial assistance, Per Sivefors
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9781443874540
Subjects: Renaissance; Medieval Civilization; Classical influences; Modern Civilization; Ancient influences; Classical Mythology; Influence; Mythologie; Rezeption; Literatur
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Double aphrodite and her reflections in Renaissance philosophy / Unn Irene Aasdalen; title: Santo Pan / Hans Henrik Brummer; title: From myth to theory : names, numbers and functions of the Muses from mediaeval mythography to Renaissance neoplatonism / Teresa Chevrolet; title: Creating mythological space : some aspects of the meaning of tapestries at the Swedish court during the Renaissance / Merit Laine; title: Homer the philosopher / Erland Selberg; title: Re-configuring classical myth in early-modern England : Orpheus as a "tutelary diety" of poetry and civilization / Angela Locatelli; title: From Icarus to Phaethon : Shakespeare and the disobedient sons / Sophie Chiari; title: Marlowe's actæon : syncretism on the Elizabethan stage / Roy Eriksen; title: "What Venus did with Mars" : Antony and Cleopatra and erotic mythology / François Laroque; title: "A serpent to be gazed upon" : a taxonomy of pride and humility in Ovid and Milton / Matthew T. Lynch; title: ^; title: Satire, satyrs, and early modern masculinities in John Marston's : the scourge of Villanie / Per Sivefors; title: Functions of mythological references in Rabelais' pantagruel and gargantua / Olivier Millet; title: Mythologies of war and peace in Malherbe's and Aubigné's poetry / Kjerstin Aukrust and Gro Bjørnerud Mo; title: Under the spell of Saturn : myth and inspiration in French renaissance poetry / Anna Carlstedt; title: From mythological events to historical evidence : a study of Les illustrations de Gaule et singularitez de Troye by Lemaire de Belges / Adeline Desbois-Ientile; title: Polyphony of love in the heptaméron / Carin Franzén; title: A French 16th-century editions of Virgil's aeneid : Hélisenne de Crenne's version of the first four books / Sara Ehrling and Britt-Marie Karlsson; title: Timeless galleries and poetic visions in Rome 1500-1540 / Nadia Cannata; title: A farewell to Arcadia : marcantonio Flaminio from poetry to faith / Giovanni Ferroni; title: ^; title: Hero and leander in various attires : configuration of desire in the mythological poetry of Francisco de Quevedo / Sofie Kluge; title: "Dii veteres fugere, novis altaria lucent ignibus" : classical mythology in religious poetry of Battista Mantovano and Jacopo Sannazaro / Clementina Marsico; title: Proteus and the pursuit of Cupid : the final poem of nicolas brizard's metamorphoses amoris (1556) / John Nassichuk; title: Chiron and the ambiguity of princely power : Machiavelli's interpretation of a mythological character / Andrea Polegato; title: Jan Kochanowski's pieśni : a Polish transformation of ancienty myths / Anja Burghardt; title: Mythology : a sign of real poetry? / Stina Hansson; title: Hans Sachs and the integration of the Muses into German language and literature / Klaus Kipf; title: From Aesop to Owlglass : the transformation of knowledge in ancient, medieval, and early modern trickster-biographies / Hans Jürgen Scheuer; title: ^; title: Myths of the inventor : inventing myths in the literary concept of the artistic ingenium in Germany and Italy (1500-1550) / Ronny F. Schulz; title: Reconfigurations of mythology in sixteenth-century Lutheran collections of Aesopic fables / Erik Zillén.