TY - JOUR A1 - Foster, Frances ED - Potter, Amanda ED - Gardner, Hunter H. T1 - Gods and Magic in Megan Whalen Turner’s The Thief JF - thersites 17 N2 - Megan Whalen Turner’s series The Queen’s Thief (1996 – 2020) centres on the political intrigues in a group of countries which are at once very like – but also very unlike – Bronze Age and archaic Greece threatened by a powerful Persian Empire. The first book in the series, The Thief (1996), begins as a political adventure haunted by stories of the gods. When those gods directly influence the action, the narrative changes from present political intrigue to a fantasy from the distant past. The mythology in The Thief reflects, imitates and distorts archaic Greek creation myths – stories about how the earth and sky were formed, the divine pantheon and heroes. I examine the presentation of this divine pantheon against the narratives about the gods in Hesiod, the Homeric hymns and Homer’s epics. I evaluate how the supernatural element interacts with the largely political narrative of The Thief. In so doing, I explore how the text blends a ‘classical supernatural’ with a world that is like – but in many ways very unlike – Bronze Age and archaic Greece. KW - Greek gods KW - Mythology KW - Young Adult literature KW - Fantasy KW - Magic Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol17.242 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2023 IS - 17 SP - 32 EP - 54 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lovatt, Helen ED - Potter, Amanda ED - Gardner, Hunter H. T1 - Resurrecting the Argo BT - Supernatural Re-makings in Robert Holdstock’s Merlin Codex JF - thersites 17 N2 - This paper analyses the relationship between the figure of the Argo (ship and character) and the supernatural in the mythic fantasy of Robert Holdstock’s Merlin Codex. It shows how Holdstock’s re-writing of the Argonautica draws on various versions from the Argonautic tradition, including Euripides’ Medea, Apollonius, Valerius Flaccus, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Treece and the 1963 film Jason and the Argonauts. It sets Holdstock’s Argo alongside other representations, as divine herself, possessed by divinity, and a channel of communication with the divine, and in the context of Holdstock’s previous work, particularly Mythago Wood, Lavondyss and Merlin’s Wood. The paper argues that Holdstock uses the Argo as a reflection of myth itself, a version of the forest in Mythago Wood, as well as a metapoetic image for the challenges and complexities of adapting a well-known story, bringing multiple mythological traditions (Arthurian, Finnish and Argonautic) together. It reflects on Holdstock’s relationship to the ancient genres of epic and tragedy, as well as Argo as plot facilitator and mechanism of transformation and transition. Holdstock’s relationship with ancient literature is richer and deeper than previously acknowledged; his self-conscious plays reveal a deep understanding of the polymorphous nature of mythical traditions. KW - Holdstock KW - Merlin Codex KW - Argonauts KW - Argo KW - myth Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol17.254 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2023 IS - 17 SP - 55 EP - 95 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Strong, Anise K. ED - Potter, Amanda ED - Gardner, Hunter H. T1 - The Persistence of Memory BT - Forgiveness, Forgetting, and Cultural Assimilation JF - thersites 17 N2 - The 2017 Pixar film Coco and the 2021 Disney film Encanto form a small part of an increasing modern wave of media focused on parent-child conflicts caused by intergenerational trauma and rejection. Other recent works in this genre include the video game Hades, the films Turning Red and Everything Everywhere All At Once, and the television series Ms. Marvel. The traumas in all these films, some directed explicitly at a younger audience and some pitched more broadly, serve as a distinct set of meditations on the immigrant experience, even while not necessarily focusing on literal immigration. They also all invoke imagery of ghosts and death, both echoing specific classical Mediterranean motifs and tropes and incorporating a wide variety of other cultures’ supernatural traditions. These works’ concern with familial traumas of separation, culture shock, and loss of ancestral memories and connections contrasts sharply with the individual-focused myth of the American Dream common to earlier generations of American media, in which a lone individual typically emigrates, assimilates, and succeeds in a new culture, forming a new family and set of myths. However, themes of assimilation and questions of cultural imperialism also form a bridge between ancient Roman and modern North American anxieties and traditions. KW - Classical Reception KW - Coco KW - Immigration KW - Ancestors KW - Underworld Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol17.255 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2023 IS - 17 SP - 125 EP - 142 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - D'Aprile, Iwan-Michelangelo T1 - Ordre vergessen BT - Fontanes Italienreisen im Kontext von Hauptstadtumbau, Akademiereform und Kunsthandel JF - Grenzüberschreitungen in Theodor Fontanes Werk: Sprache, Literatur, Medien [=Schriften der Fontane-Gesellschaft] Y1 - 2023 SN - 978-3-11073-571-0 SN - 978-3-11071-128-8 SN - 978-3-11-073575-8 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110735710-003 SN - 1861-4396 VL - 16 SP - 43 EP - 62 PB - de Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Asche, Matthias T1 - Das christliche Europa der Vormoderne zwischen Eintracht Und Zwietracht - zur religiösen Grundierung Alteuropas JF - Geschichte Europas : seine Desintegration und Integration schreiben : Vorläufer, Perzeptionen und Perspektiven der europäischen Idee N2 - Nach der einleitenden Bemerkung, dass die alteuropäische (mittelalterliche und früh neuzeitliche) Identität grundsätzlich konfessionell bestimmt war (Heiraten, Vergabe von Ämtern, Kriegsbündnisse u. a. orientierten sich an der Konfession), gliederte der Referent seinen Vortrag in zwei Abschnitte: Teil 1: Reflexion über die christliche Identität Alteuropas an der Schwelle vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit Teil 2: Die Folgen von Katholischer Reform, Reformation und Gegenreformation für die europäische Geschichte im Konfessionellen Zeitalter, mit einigen Ausblicken auf das aufgeklärte, säkulare 18. Jahrhundert Y1 - 2023 UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/63246/external_content.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y SN - 978-3-487-16328-4 SN - 3-487-16328-4 SN - 1869-1196 VL - 1 SP - 201 EP - 211 PB - Universitätsverlag Hildesheim CY - Hildesheim ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Geppert, Dominik Nicolas T1 - Geschichte ist etwas, was unmittelbar das eigene Leben berührt JF - Geschichte Europas : seine Desintegration und Integration schreiben : Vorläufer, Perzeptionen und Perspektiven der europäischen Idee Y1 - 2023 UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/63246/external_content.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y SN - 978-3-487-16328-4 SN - 3-487-16328-4 SN - 1869-1196 VL - 1 SP - 497 EP - 523 PB - Universitätsverlag Hildesheim CY - Hildesheim ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Asche, Matthias T1 - Ich muss zugeben, dass ich immer mehr Gefallen an dem Begriff Alteuropa finde JF - Geschichte Europas : seine Desintegration und Integration schreiben : Vorläufer, Perzeptionen und Perspektiven der europäischen Idee Y1 - 2023 UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/63246/external_content.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y SN - 978-3-487-16328-4 SN - 3-487-16328-4 SN - 1869-1196 VL - 1 SP - 212 EP - 227 PB - Universitätsverlag Hildesheim CY - Hildesheim ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Geppert, Dominik Nicolas T1 - Zwischen politischen Zielen und ökonomischen Zwängen BT - Zukunftsaussichten der europäischen Einheitswährung JF - Geschichte Europas : seine Desintegration und Integration schreiben : Vorläufer, Perzeptionen und Perspektiven der europäischen Idee Y1 - 2023 UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/63246/external_content.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y SN - 978-3-487-16328-4 SN - 3-487-16328-4 SN - 1869-1196 VL - 1 SP - 485 EP - 496 PB - Universitätsverlag Hildesheim CY - Hildesheim ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Potter, Amanda A1 - Gardner, Hunter H. ED - Potter, Amanda ED - Gardner, Hunter H. T1 - Classics and the Supernatural in Modern Media JF - thersites 17 N2 - Short preface to the special edition of Thersites. Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol17.256 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2023 IS - 17 SP - 1 EP - 1 ER - TY - THES A1 - Dommes, Bianca T1 - »… und am Himmel standen die Sterne, aber wir sahen sie nicht« BT - die Kontroversen um »Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod« von Rainer Werner Fassbinder T2 - Potsdamer Jüdische Studien Y1 - 2023 SN - 978-3-95410-316-4 VL - 10 PB - be.bra wissenschaft CY - Berlin ER -