Mackridge, Peter, ed. Ancient Myth in Modern Greek Poetry: Essays in Memory of C.A. Trypanis. London; Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1996). xxv, 178 p. {3.1137}

ISBN 0714647519; 9780714647517

Contains: Peter Mackridge, "Introduction" (pp. xiii-xxiii); Peter Levi, "from the poem 'For Constantine Trypanis'" (pp. xxiv-xxv).

David Holton, “The Function of Myth in Cretan Renaissance Poetry: The Cases of Achelis and Kornaros” (pp. 1-12); N.J. Richardson, “The Idea of the Hero in Ancient and Nineteenth-Century Greek Poetry” (pp. 13-20); David Ricks, Palamas and the Ancient Myth of the Poet” (pp. 21-31); Sarah Ekdawi, “Cavafy’s Mythical Ephebes” (pp. 33-44); Philip Sherrard, “An Approach to the Meaning of Myth in the Poetry of Sikelianos” (pp. 45-52); Katerina Krikos-Davis, “Seferis and the Myth of Adonis” (pp. 53-66); Dimitris Tziovas, “Ritsos’s Orestes: The Politics of Myth and the Anarchy of Rhetoric” (pp. 67- 80); Edmund Keeley, “Nostos and the Poet’s Vision in Seferis and Ritsos” (pp. 81-96); Michael Pieris, “The Theme of the Second Odyssey in Cavafy and Sinopoulos” (pp. 97-108); Christopher Robinson, “‘Helen or Penelope?’: Women Writers, Myth and the Problem of Gender Roles” (pp. 109-120); Karen Van Dyck, “Bruised Necks and Crumpled Petticoats: What’s Left of Myth in Contemporary Greek Women’s Poetry” (pp. 121-130); Roderick Beaton, “Aphrodite and War: The Wartime Poetry of Embirikos, Kaknavatos, Papatsonis and Seferis” (pp. 131-138); Elli Philokyprou, “The Changing Face of Orpheus: From Greek Romanticism to the Prague Spring” (pp. 139-149); Yorgis Yatromanolakis, “The Prometheus Myth in Modern Greek Poetry and Drama: An Outline and Two Examples” (pp. 151-159) [The two examples are: Ioannis Kalostypis’s [1851-1918] play Prometheus on Olympus from 1894 and Kostas Varnalis’s The Burning Light (1922; 1933²)]; Peter Bien, “The Anxiety of Influence in Greek and English Poetry” (pp. 161-172).