List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction (Emily Hauser and Helena Taylor, Exeter University, UK)
Creative Voices
1. Rewriting Greek Myth as a Woman (Emily Hauser, Exeter University, UK)
2. Classics and Craft (Madeline Miller, Independent Scholar, USA)
3. Return to the Labyrinth: Retelling the Stories of Mythical Women in Contemporary Poetry (Fiona Benson, Independent Scholar, UK)
4. Eurydice (Jennifer Saint, King's College London, UK)
5. Only Hope Remained (Rani Selvarajah, Independent Scholar, UK)
6. In the Bad Times (Cait Kremenstein, Independent Scholar, UK)
7. The Homeric Hymn to Dionysus (Roz Kaveney, Independent Scholar, UK)
8. Stage Manager's Notes (Gwyneth Lewis, Independent Scholar, UK)
9. Excerpt from Exit Kassandra (Carrie Etter, University of Bristol, UK)
10. a vespere nomen: An extract from patient zero (Kit Byford, Independent Scholar, UK)
11. The Real Sappho: Writing the Tenth Muse for the Contemporary Stage (Aimee Suzara, San Francisco State University and College of San Mateo, USA)
12. Suspended Animation: How the Fetish World Gave Life to Catullus and Callimachus (Isobel Williams, Independent Scholar, UK)
13. Transforming Voices: Ovid's Metamorphoses in Translation (Victoria Punch, Exeter University, UK)
14. Self-portrait in Egg (excerpt) (Jane Alison, University of Virginia, USA)
15. Declassifying Myself (Donna Zuckerberg, Independent Scholar, USA)
Collaborations and Conversations
16. The Genesis and Creation of Dido/Elissa, a New Play by Magdalena Zira (Magdalena Zira, Independent Scholar, Cyprus; Edith Hall, Durham University, UK)
17. On Not Turning to Stone: Unstaging Women's Sexual Trauma in an Adaptation of the Myth of Medusa (Wendy Haines, Independent Scholar, UK; Christine Plastow, Open University, UK)
18. The Music of Homer: Anne Carson's TROYJAM (Yopie Prins, University of Michigan, USA; Anne Carson, Independent Scholar, Canada)
19. Contemporary Women Writers: On Creativity in Recreating the Classics (Clare Pollard and Carrie Etter, Independent Scholars, UK)
20. Interview with Gwyneth Lewis, by Polly Stoker (University of Winchester, UK)
21. Interview with Selby Wynn Schwartz, by Helena Taylor (University of Exeter, UK)
22. Interview with Ronni Kern, by Ruby Blondell (University of Washington, USA)
23. Interview with Roz Kaveney, by Jennifer Ingleheart (Durham University, UK)
24. Interview with Nikita Gill, by Emily Hauser (University of Exeter, UK)
Creativity for the Future and Inclusive Classics
25. Students Shaping Classics: Non-traditional, Open Assessment, Creativity, Inclusivity and Shifting Disciplinary Boundaries (Helen Lovatt, University of Nottingham, UK)
26. Creative Teaching: Facing the Fear and Doing it Anyway (Sharon Marshall, University of Exeter, UK)
27. Imagining a World of Gods and Spirits Using Smells, Bells and More: A Creative Writing Workshop (Caroline Lawrence)
28. Breaking the Form: Women Writers across Creative and Critical Practice (Tom Geue, University of St. Andrews, UK; Emily Hauser, University of Exeter, UK; Daisy Dunn, Independent Scholar, UK)
29. Epilogue: No Going Back (Emily Greenwood, Harvard University, USA)
Notes
Bibliography
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