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Icarus and Daedalus, PerdixJune 12, 2024June 12, 2024

Perdix is Greek for “partridge”

Perdix hardly cuts a common figure in our contemporary awareness of classical mythology. You may not have ever noticed him. Perdix flies too low for notice and only rarely squawks from the fringes. A couple of well-known Renaissance paintings adapt the Perdix myth. These adaptations …

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Roger Macfarlane
adaptation theoryMay 30, 2024May 30, 2024

If Gazelle Nataways is Nanabush, can she also be a Greek Goddess? Or, Linda Hutcheon cuts a corner.

Linda Hutcheon’s Theory of Adaptation holds a canonical place on my bookshelf and in my heart. The book’s sanity cuts through problems of theorizing adaption. Hutcheon’s approach is unencumbered by jargon and murk. Since its publication in 2006 and revision in 2013 — 2nd ed. from Routledge …

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Roger Macfarlane
Amphitrite, HermesMay 23, 2024May 23, 2024

Is Mercury the Fishermonger’s God?

ogcmaHermes2.0086_Jordaens “The Gifts of the Sea” by Jacob Jordaens and Frans Snyders (1640/1650) celebrates a teeming catch being brought to the shore by a throng of naked merfolk. All this takes place under the watch of the commercial god Mercury. The marine divinities slip and …

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Roger Macfarlane
Artist, Judgment of ParisMay 16, 2024May 23, 2024

Hans Baldung Grien’s Judgment of Paris

Hans Baldung Grien (1485/85-1545) sketched a “Judgment of Paris” for a mural or tapestry that, if it ever was executed, is now lost. The preserved ink drawing shows that even late in his career, in the middle of the 16th Century, certain Medieval elements of …

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Roger Macfarlane
adaptation, Artist, scyllaMay 15, 2024May 15, 2024

Giving Glaucus the Finger: Bartholomeus Spranger and his haughty Scylla

Scylla was not always the man-eating cliff-dwelling creature that devoured seafarers and their crews. Scylla came to be all that after Circe’s magical potions transformed her into the atavistic horror Odysseus met first-hand. In her earlier existence, Scylla was once a comely young woman whom …

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Roger Macfarlane
adaptation theory, Mythology, scyllaApril 30, 2024May 15, 2024

Not all seafarers play the Odysseus

Honoré Daumier’s satirical cartoon “De Charybde en Scylla” (From Charybdis to Scylla) is cataloged in the Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts as a usage of the myth of Odysseus with Scylla and Charybdis. The usage, however, has more to do with Scylla …

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Roger Macfarlane
adaptation, Electra, Mythology, OresteiaOctober 31, 2022May 16, 2024

Electra, My Love (M. Jancsó, 1974)

OresteiThis post was written for MythMatters in August 2015 and modestly corrected here. Miklós Jancsó adapted the stageplay by L. Gyurkó, Szerelmem, Elektra, into the 1974 film Electra, My Love. The film is very watchable as cinema … for some viewers (to judge by the Amazon.com reviews!). …

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Roger Macfarlane
Artist, Eurydice, Mythology, Orpheus & EurydiceSeptember 1, 2022May 16, 2024

Mrs. Orpheus: Duffy’s “Eurydice”

Carol Ann Duffy’s (b. 1955) “Eurydice” appears as the twenty-fourth poem in her collection The World’s Wife, sidled between “Salome” and “the Kray Sisters”. Like her sisters in the collection, Duffy’s Eurydice vocalizes a silenced woman from literature and myth.      Duffy’s witty feminist …

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Roger Macfarlane
Artist, AthenaOctober 4, 2021May 16, 2024

Rubens’ Minerva makes anybody a family-man

The British National Gallery’s painting of the month for October 2021 is an old favorite of mine, “Minerva Protects Pax from Mars (or, Peace and War)” (1629-1630). Having spent much of my weekend with my beautiful little granddaughters, contemplating the painting this morning takes me …

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Roger Macfarlane
adaptation theory, Athena, student contributorsSeptember 2, 2021May 16, 2024

THE Athens of the South

The big question, the deep thought behind this post is this: What does it mean when a place like Nashville, TN claims to be “THE Athens of the South”? Granted, I have added the emphatic CAPS. Yet, this was the claim in the age of …

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  • Perdix is Greek for “partridge”
  • If Gazelle Nataways is Nanabush, can she also be a Greek Goddess? Or, Linda Hutcheon cuts a corner.
  • Is Mercury the Fishermonger’s God?
  • Hans Baldung Grien’s Judgment of Paris
  • Giving Glaucus the Finger: Bartholomeus Spranger and his haughty Scylla

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