- Title Pages
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Editors’ Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: The Reinvention of the Ancient Hero
- 1 Hercules and the Millennial Generation
- 2 Hercules: The Mythopoetics of New Heroism
- 3 Hercules, Putin, and the Heroic Body on Screen in 2014
- 4 <i>Heroes and Companions in</i> Hercules (<i>2014</i>)
- 5 <i>Sacrifice and Salvific Heroism in</i> Supernatural <i>(2005–)</i>
- 6 <i>Russell Crowe and Maximal Projections in</i> Noah <i>(2014)</i>
- 7 The Immortality of Theseus and His Myth
- 8 <i>The Changing Faces of Heroism in</i> Atlantis <i>(2013–15)</i>
- 9 Xena: Warrior, Heroine, Tramp
- 10 <i>Divergent Heroism in</i> Centurion <i>(2010)</i>
- 11 The Hero in a Thousand Pieces: Antiheroes in Recent Epic Cinema
- 12 <i>Trouble in the Tehran Multiplex: Xerxes</i>, 300, <i>and</i> 300: Rise of an Empire <i>in Iran</i>
- 13 Ancient (Anti)Heroes on Screen and Ancient Greece Post-9/11
- 14 Making Modern (Anti) Heroes, the Ancient Way
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
The Reinvention of the Ancient Hero
The Reinvention of the Ancient Hero
- Chapter:
- (p.1) Introduction: The Reinvention of the Ancient Hero
- Source:
- Epic Heroes on Screen
- Author(s):
Antony Augoustakis
Stacie Raucci
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
The movie Troy (2004) opens with a voiceover by the wily warrior Odysseus in which he asks if the names and deeds of Homeric heroes will endure for centuries to come: “Will our actions echo across the centuries? Will strangers hear our names long after we’re gone and wonder who we were?”...
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- Title Pages
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Editors’ Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: The Reinvention of the Ancient Hero
- 1 Hercules and the Millennial Generation
- 2 Hercules: The Mythopoetics of New Heroism
- 3 Hercules, Putin, and the Heroic Body on Screen in 2014
- 4 <i>Heroes and Companions in</i> Hercules (<i>2014</i>)
- 5 <i>Sacrifice and Salvific Heroism in</i> Supernatural <i>(2005–)</i>
- 6 <i>Russell Crowe and Maximal Projections in</i> Noah <i>(2014)</i>
- 7 The Immortality of Theseus and His Myth
- 8 <i>The Changing Faces of Heroism in</i> Atlantis <i>(2013–15)</i>
- 9 Xena: Warrior, Heroine, Tramp
- 10 <i>Divergent Heroism in</i> Centurion <i>(2010)</i>
- 11 The Hero in a Thousand Pieces: Antiheroes in Recent Epic Cinema
- 12 <i>Trouble in the Tehran Multiplex: Xerxes</i>, 300, <i>and</i> 300: Rise of an Empire <i>in Iran</i>
- 13 Ancient (Anti)Heroes on Screen and Ancient Greece Post-9/11
- 14 Making Modern (Anti) Heroes, the Ancient Way
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
