Graeco-Roman Horror and its Modern Reception : Unleashing Classical Dread (Hardcover)

Introduction: Unleashing Classical Dread? Part 1: Violence and the Appeal of Horror? 1. Horrific Facts over Horrific Fictions: Ancient Interventions into Horror’s Appeal? 2. A Morbid Taste for the Suffering Girl: Cultural Roots of Gore Scenes in Ancient Greek Novel? 3. Violence and Forgetting: Traces of Greek Mythology in Flanagan’s Manor? Part 2: Daemons, Monsters, and other Fantastic Creatures? 4. From Terrifying to Comforting: A Brief Study of Underworld Daemons in Etruria? 5. Laughing and/or Fearing the Witch: Exploring Horace’s Canidia & The Monstrous-Feminine? 6. “That limitless Mind”: Yog-Sothoth and the reception of Hermetic γν?σι? in H.P. Lovecraft’s fiction? Part 3: Altering Human Condition: Death and Necromancy? 7. The Basel Dancers (BS 415): A Tragic Chorus Pleading with the Ghost of Patroclus?? 8. Dead Men Do Tell Tales: Lucan’s Necromancy Recentered? 9. Reworking the Horror of War and Death in Contemporary Spanish Theatre: The “Impossible Heroism” of Numantia and Saguntum? Part 4: Body Horror and Spectatorship? 10. Cannibals, Amazons, and the Male Gaze: Horror and Horror Cinematography in Imperial Greek Epic? 11.?Horresco intuens: Body Horror, Embodied Spectatorship, and the Extispicium of Seneca’s?Oedipus??12. “Convert of Die”: The Horror of Cannibalism in?Blood of Zeus?and Graeco-Roman Mythology? Part 5: Fear and Suspense??13. “Don’t Go in There!” Forms of Fear and Suspense in Aeschylus? 14. Knives and Masks: Agency as a Suspense Device from Greek Tragedy to Slasher? 15. Lucian’s Lies and Trimalchio’s Truths: Memorates and Credibility in?The Lover of Lies?and the?Satyricon