Ancient Greek Myth in Modern Greek Poetry

Essays in Memory of C. A. Trypanis

Peter Mackridge

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781032508979
• eBook ISBN: 9781000892710
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Ancient & Classical Literary Collections
• Index: Literature

Originally published in 1996, this volume contains essays by scholars, critics and translators and includes themes such as the myth in the Cretan Renaissance and the use of ancient myth by 19th and 20th Century poets. Some essays deal with individual mythical figures such as Odysseus, Orpheus, Prometheus and Aphrodite, while others deal with the problematic issue of the use of myth by Greek women poets. The discussion is completed by comparing attitudes to the ancient Greeks as embodied in English and modern Greek poetry.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• From the poem ‘For Constantine Trypanis’
• The function of myth in Cretan Renaissance poetry: the cases of Achelis and Kornaros
• The idea of the hero in ancient and nineteenth-century Greek poetry
• Palamas and the ancient myth of the poet
• Cavafy’s mythical ephebes
• An approach to the meaning of myth in the poetry of Sikelianos
• Sefens and the myth of Adonis
• Ritsos’s Orestes: the politics of myth and the anarchy of rhetoric
• Nostos and the poet’s vision in Seferis and Ritsos
• The theme of the second Odyssey in Cavafy and Sinopoulos
• ’Helen or Penelope?’ Women writers, myth and the problem of gender roles
• Bruised necks and crumpled petticoats: What's left of myth in contemporary Greek women's poetry
• Aphrodite at war: the wartime poetry of Embirikos, Kaknavatos, Papatsonis and Seferis
• The changing face of Orpheus: from Greek Romanticism to the Prague Spring
• The Prometheus myth in modem Greek poetry and drama: an outline and two examples
• The anxiety of influence in Greek and English Poetry
• Index of mythical characters
• Index of authors