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Moula, Evangelia. "Greek Classics Through Comic Books: Negotiating Cultural Tradition Under the Fidelity Pseudo-Dilemma." Journal of Literature and Art Studies 2. (2012): 587–605. Added by: joachim (07/12/2025, 22:44) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English DOI: 10.17265/2159-5836/2012.06.003 BibTeX citation key: Moula2012 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Adaptation, Classical antiquity, Literature Creators: Moula Collection: Journal of Literature and Art Studies |
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Greek classics, Homer, and the Greek tragedians, supposed to be the cornerstone of Western civilization, have long suffered from a stagnant and formalistic institutional approach. On the other hand, the adaptations, the transcriptions, or the transubstantiations of the Greek antiquity material into new stories and formats compose an abundant cultural field. Antiquity is diffused in a variety of texts, among comics as well. In this paper, we revise the comic books adaptations dealing with ancient Greek classics and classify them according to “the fidelity criterion-dilemma”, to the kind of reader they imply and to the extent of authorial mastery they impose. When classics and comics collide, they create unexpected variations of the ancient material, reflecting the receiving culture’s practices and beliefs.
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