TY  - JOUR
A1  - Martínez Jiménez, Javier
ED  - Potter, Amanda
ED  - Gardner, Hunter H.
T1  - Lycaon and classical versipelles in MTV’s Teen Wolf
JF  - thersites 17
N2  - The modern conception of the werewolf is heavily influenced by Gothic reinterpretations of medieval European stories. This kind of werewolf is the one that has appeared on screen and written fiction for decades, but MTV’s Teen Wolf, a re-boot of the 1980s film which aired between 2011 – 17, is different. In this young adult supernatural drama, werewolves descend directly from Lycaon, and a substantial proportion of the show’s werewolf lore derives from Graeco-Roman stories about wolf-shifters and versipelles. This paper wants to explore the extent of the use in the show of the myth of Lycaon in particular, of Classical versipelles in general, the significance of these two references for the narrative, and the degree of innovation in modern supernatural fiction of this adaptation of Greek and Roman stories.
KW  - Teen Wolf
KW  - Werewolves
KW  - Versipelles
KW  - Lycaon
KW  - Television series
KW  - World-building
Y1  - 2023
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol17.248
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2023
IS  - 17
SP  - 212
EP  - 244
ER  -