In this special guest episode, Dr. Liz Gloyn and I discuss her forthcoming book, Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019).
This work is the first in-depth study on classical reception and monsters in Anglo-American popular culture from the 1950s to the present day. Throughout the book, Dr. Gloyn reveals the trends behind how we have used the monsters, and develops a broad theory of the ancient monster and its life after antiquity, investigating its relation to gender, genre and space to explore what it is that keeps drawing us back to these mythical beasts and why they have remained such a powerful presence in our shared cultural imagination. Specifically, her book takes us through a comprehensive tour of monsters on film and television, from the much-loved creations of Ray Harryhausen in Clash of the Titans to the monster of the week in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, before examining in detail the post-classical afterlives of the two most popular monsters, the Medusa and the Minotaur.
Show Notes: http://www.thehistoryofancientgreece.com/2019/10/special-guest-episode-on-classical.html
Dr Liz Gloyn
Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London
Website: https://lizgloyn.wordpress.com/
048 Food, Wine, and the Symposium
047 Herakles: From Zero to Hero
046 Monsters and Heroes
045 Music and Victory Odes
044 Democracy under Pericles
043 Imperial Athens
042 The Undeclared War
041 The End of an Era
040 War Hawks and Peace Doves
039 The Greek Counterattack
038 Behind the Wooden Walls
037 Molon Labe
036 The Marathonomachoi
035 The Ionian Revolt
034 Rising Tensions
033 The "Great King" Darius
032 Cambyses
031 Cyrus the Great
030 Herodotus and the Rise of Persia
029 The First Greco-Punic War
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