A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology by Zajko Vanda; Hoyle Helena; & Helena Hoyle

Author:Zajko, Vanda; Hoyle, Helena; & Helena Hoyle [Zajko, Vanda & Hoyle, Helena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Published: 2017-04-10T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 The first Percy Jackson & The Olympians series comprises: The Lightning Thief (2005), The Sea of Monsters (2006), The Titan’s Curse (2007), The Battle of the Labyrinth (2008), and The Last Olympian (2009a). The subsequent Heroes of Olympus series began with The Lost Hero (2010a), followed by The Son of Neptune (2011) and The Mark of Athena (2012). Publication dates refer to US editions, where the books are now published by Hyperion Books for Children; the UK publisher is Penguin (and page references throughout this chapter refer to the UK paperback editions).

2 Another series by Riordan, The Kane Chronicles, consists of a trilogy based on Egyptian mythology (2010–2012); a series on Norse mythology appeared in 2015.

3 Dowden and Livingstone (2011, 9).

4 The sequel, Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Sea of Monsters was released in 2013.

5 Met Museum podcast, “Episode for Families: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief,” recorded March 14, 2010. Online at: http://www.metmuseum.org/metmedia/audio/kids/068‐episode‐for‐families‐percy‐jackson‐‐the‐olympians‐the‐lightning‐thief‐at‐the‐met (accessed October 28, 2016).

6 Riordan (2006, 106).

7 Ogden (2008, 145). In the same year as the film adaptation of the first Percy Jackson book, a remake of Clash of the Titans appeared. Here, Perseus is also center‐stage, yet also inserted into a narrative that departs from the ancient templates (including, for example, elements of Norse mythology, such as the Kraken).

8 Murnaghan (2011, 345–347).

9 A film version of Gods Behaving Badly was released in 2013.

10 See Paul (2013, 107–122) on cinematic depictions of the Olympians in the Percy Jackson film, among others.

11 Murnaghan (2011, 352).

12 For example, Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth begins with the line “The last thing I wanted to do on my summer break was blow up another school,” an event that occurs when empousai, aptly in the guise of cheerleaders, attack Percy’s school.

13 Chiron often appears in this role in other striking modern receptions of myth, such as Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Medea, which offers a neat parallel example of how the centaur can straddle both worlds. At different points in the film, Jackson sees him as either an ordinary man, or as a centaur, and occasionally both at once. Chiron also plays a key role in Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles.

14 For example, these are the opening words of Charles Kingsley’s The Heroes (1856) which incidentally begins with the tale of Perseus.

15 Met Museum podcast, “Episode for Families: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief” (see n.5). Charles Kingsley reveals a similar inspiration for his retelling of Greek myth, telling his young readers in the preface to The Heroes that “you cannot walk through a great town without passing Greek buildings; you cannot go into a well‐furnished room without seeing Greek statues and ornaments, even Greek patterns of furniture and paper; so strangely have these old Greeks left their mark behind them upon this modern world in which we now live.”

16 Riordan (2010a, 547).

17 Perhaps unthinkingly, Riordan here continues the intriguing trope that figures a museum as a catalyst for an emotional engagement with

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