Debbie Felton
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 502929 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Debbie Felton |
| PRENOMES | Debbie |
| SOBRENOME | Felton |
| ASSINATURA | FELTON D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 5 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Interpreting Monsters
To remind us that “monstrosity” need not equal “evil,” recent studies on the monstrous tend toward inclusive treatments of the alterity represented by physically anomalous bodies and non-normative behaviour. The Cyclops Polyphemus provides a useful example of how one monstrous creature can be viewed from multiple perspectives: while the ancient Greeks considered him savage and horrifying, new interpretations demonstrate how Polyphemus exemplifies…
The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth
This volume presents forty chapters about the unique and terrifying creatures from myths of the long-ago Near East and Mediterranean world, featuring authoritative contributions by many of the top international experts on ancient monsters and the monstrous. An introduction by the editor provides an overview of monster theory as applied throughout the book. The four parts of the Handbook bring together original studies of individual monsters, tale…
Cannibalism
Cannibalism is a fraught topic, not least because an abundance of partial and unreliable literary evidence from the ancient Near East and Mediterranean stands against very little archaeological evidence, leaving the entire issue a matter of contention. In general, in classical Antiquity the idea itself was abhorrent and considered to be “uncivilized,” largely used as a rhetorical device to characterize the Other. Consequently, ancient authors ass…
Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth
Brigands and Cruel Kings
Most of Heracles’ parerga involve not mythological monsters but murderous humans or demigods famous for torturing and murdering travelers unfortunate enough to pass through their territories. Many of these antagonists, such as Cacus, Antaeus, and Cycnus, displayed their victims’ skulls as trophies. Such stories may echo headhunting rituals evidenced by archaeological finds from the Mesolithic through the early Iron Age. Heracles’ victories over t…
Preface to Special Issue
Debbie Felton, Derrek Joyce, Preface to Special Issue: “The Supernatural and Uncanny in Classical Antiquity”, Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural, Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021), pp. 1-6
Monsters and Fear of Highway Travel in Ancient Greece and Rome
By the sixth century BCE, previously insular Greek city-states were communicating with each other via clearly defined routes as Greece entered a period of urban and mercantile expansion. However well planned the roads were, travelers in both Greece and Rome had to pass through long stretches of sparsely settled countryside where lone bandits or entire gangs of highway robbers could easily ambush them. No organized force kept order on the roads be…
Landscapes of Dread in Classical Antiquity
The Fermi paradox, Bayes’ rule, and existential risk management
Witches, Disgust, and Anti-Abortion Propaganda in Imperial Rome
Witches in Roman literature exhibit a predilection for harming infants in utero. Descriptions connecting witches with the womb express even more disgust than stories about witches killing young children and present the witch as the antithesis of a midwife: rather than helping children be born, witches prevent birth. Roman authors emphasize their physical filthiness, providing a stark contrast to the hygienic mindfulness of midwives as described i…
Apuleius’ Cupid Considered as a Lamia ( Metamorphoses 5.17-18)
This paper re-examines what many scholars have seen as the problematic intrusion of the monstrous serpent into the narrative of Cupid and Psyche. Psyche seems far too easily convinced by her sisters that her unseen husband is a horrendous creature intent on devouring her. Psyche’s extreme credulity, terror, and willingness to kill her husband are more understandable if her reaction is interpreted in the context of Lamia lore, with which Apuleius …
Cannibalism
The archaeological and literary evidence from antiquity for human cannibalism (anthropophagy, the consumption of the flesh of other humans) suggests varying practices and attitudes. Despite many references to cannibalism in surviving writings, archaeological evidence from antiquity remains slim. Although archaeological work has provided sporadic indications of ritualistic cannibalism over the millennia, such scarce physical evidence is viewed as …
Demons, Judaism
During their wanderings in the Near East in the sixth century BCE the Jews adapted the dualistic angel–demon conception from Zoroastrianism.
Monstrosity or Disability? Ancient Accounts of Accelerated Ageing
Ancient Greek and Roman accounts of accelerated ageing fall into two main groups. The first group consists of mythological accounts of entire races born with grey hair, and these accounts generally obtain metaphorical or allegorical meanings about man's degenerate nature. The second group is comprised of literal accounts of real individuals who have aged astonishingly early, displaying such traits as baldness, wrinkled skin, bleary eyes, drooping…
The Grateful Dead
Journal of American Folklore - Volume 114, Number 454, Fall 2001
On Reading "Latrare" at Ovid "Met." 7.791
The Grateful Dead
Book Review| October 01 2001 The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk Story The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk Story, Gordon Hall Gerould. D. Felton D. Felton Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2001) 114 (454): 505–506. https://doi.org/10.2307/542065 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Em…
Anthology of Ancient Greek Popular Literature
Haunted Greece and Rome
Stories of ghostly spirits who return to this world to warn of danger, to prophesy, to take revenge, to request proper burial, or to comfort the living fascinated people in ancient times just as they do today. In this innovative, interdisciplinary study, the author combines a modern folkloric perspective with literary analysis of ghost stories from classical antiquity to shed new light on the stories' folk roots. The author begins by examining an…
Advice to Tyrants
IN THE WORKS of the English short-story writer Saki, known for his sardonic attitude toward the British aristocracy, we find the following description of a woman working in her garden: Mrs. Riversedge snipped vigorously at the nearest rose bush, incidentally decapitating a Viscountess Folkestone that was just coming into bloom.' This symbolic-though, in this case, accidental-execution of the highest classes, who are represented by flowers, has it…
Apuleius’ Cupid Considered as a Lamia ( Metamorphoses 5.17-18)
This paper re-examines what many scholars have seen as the problematic intrusion of the monstrous serpent into the narrative of Cupid and Psyche. Psyche seems far too easily convinced by her sisters that her unseen husband is a horrendous creature intent on devouring her. Psyche’s extreme credulity, terror, and willingness to kill her husband are more understandable if her reaction is interpreted in the context of Lamia lore, with which Apuleius …
The Fermi paradox, Bayes’ rule, and existential risk management
Monstrosity or Disability? Ancient Accounts of Accelerated Ageing
Ancient Greek and Roman accounts of accelerated ageing fall into two main groups. The first group consists of mythological accounts of entire races born with grey hair, and these accounts generally obtain metaphorical or allegorical meanings about man's degenerate nature. The second group is comprised of literal accounts of real individuals who have aged astonishingly early, displaying such traits as baldness, wrinkled skin, bleary eyes, drooping…
Anthology of Ancient Greek Popular Literature
Haunted Greece and Rome
Stories of ghostly spirits who return to this world to warn of danger, to prophesy, to take revenge, to request proper burial, or to comfort the living fascinated people in ancient times just as they do today. In this innovative, interdisciplinary study, the author combines a modern folkloric perspective with literary analysis of ghost stories from classical antiquity to shed new light on the stories' folk roots. The author begins by examining an…
Advice to Tyrants
IN THE WORKS of the English short-story writer Saki, known for his sardonic attitude toward the British aristocracy, we find the following description of a woman working in her garden: Mrs. Riversedge snipped vigorously at the nearest rose bush, incidentally decapitating a Viscountess Folkestone that was just coming into bloom.' This symbolic-though, in this case, accidental-execution of the highest classes, who are represented by flowers, has it…
Anthology of Ancient Greek Popular Literature
The Grateful Dead
Journal of American Folklore - Volume 114, Number 454, Fall 2001
On Reading "Latrare" at Ovid "Met." 7.791
The Grateful Dead
Book Review| October 01 2001 The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk Story The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk Story, Gordon Hall Gerould. D. Felton D. Felton Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2001) 114 (454): 505–506. https://doi.org/10.2307/542065 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Em…
Cannibalism
The archaeological and literary evidence from antiquity for human cannibalism (anthropophagy, the consumption of the flesh of other humans) suggests varying practices and attitudes. Despite many references to cannibalism in surviving writings, archaeological evidence from antiquity remains slim. Although archaeological work has provided sporadic indications of ritualistic cannibalism over the millennia, such scarce physical evidence is viewed as …
Demons, Judaism
During their wanderings in the Near East in the sixth century BCE the Jews adapted the dualistic angel–demon conception from Zoroastrianism.
Monstrosity or Disability? Ancient Accounts of Accelerated Ageing
Ancient Greek and Roman accounts of accelerated ageing fall into two main groups. The first group consists of mythological accounts of entire races born with grey hair, and these accounts generally obtain metaphorical or allegorical meanings about man's degenerate nature. The second group is comprised of literal accounts of real individuals who have aged astonishingly early, displaying such traits as baldness, wrinkled skin, bleary eyes, drooping…
Apuleius’ Cupid Considered as a Lamia ( Metamorphoses 5.17-18)
This paper re-examines what many scholars have seen as the problematic intrusion of the monstrous serpent into the narrative of Cupid and Psyche. Psyche seems far too easily convinced by her sisters that her unseen husband is a horrendous creature intent on devouring her. Psyche’s extreme credulity, terror, and willingness to kill her husband are more understandable if her reaction is interpreted in the context of Lamia lore, with which Apuleius …
Witches, Disgust, and Anti-Abortion Propaganda in Imperial Rome
Witches in Roman literature exhibit a predilection for harming infants in utero. Descriptions connecting witches with the womb express even more disgust than stories about witches killing young children and present the witch as the antithesis of a midwife: rather than helping children be born, witches prevent birth. Roman authors emphasize their physical filthiness, providing a stark contrast to the hygienic mindfulness of midwives as described i…
The Fermi paradox, Bayes’ rule, and existential risk management
Landscapes of Dread in Classical Antiquity
Monsters and Fear of Highway Travel in Ancient Greece and Rome
By the sixth century BCE, previously insular Greek city-states were communicating with each other via clearly defined routes as Greece entered a period of urban and mercantile expansion. However well planned the roads were, travelers in both Greece and Rome had to pass through long stretches of sparsely settled countryside where lone bandits or entire gangs of highway robbers could easily ambush them. No organized force kept order on the roads be…
Brigands and Cruel Kings
Most of Heracles’ parerga involve not mythological monsters but murderous humans or demigods famous for torturing and murdering travelers unfortunate enough to pass through their territories. Many of these antagonists, such as Cacus, Antaeus, and Cycnus, displayed their victims’ skulls as trophies. Such stories may echo headhunting rituals evidenced by archaeological finds from the Mesolithic through the early Iron Age. Heracles’ victories over t…
Preface to Special Issue
Debbie Felton, Derrek Joyce, Preface to Special Issue: “The Supernatural and Uncanny in Classical Antiquity”, Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural, Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021), pp. 1-6
The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth
This volume presents forty chapters about the unique and terrifying creatures from myths of the long-ago Near East and Mediterranean world, featuring authoritative contributions by many of the top international experts on ancient monsters and the monstrous. An introduction by the editor provides an overview of monster theory as applied throughout the book. The four parts of the Handbook bring together original studies of individual monsters, tale…
Cannibalism
Cannibalism is a fraught topic, not least because an abundance of partial and unreliable literary evidence from the ancient Near East and Mediterranean stands against very little archaeological evidence, leaving the entire issue a matter of contention. In general, in classical Antiquity the idea itself was abhorrent and considered to be “uncivilized,” largely used as a rhetorical device to characterize the Other. Consequently, ancient authors ass…
Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth
Interpreting Monsters
To remind us that “monstrosity” need not equal “evil,” recent studies on the monstrous tend toward inclusive treatments of the alterity represented by physically anomalous bodies and non-normative behaviour. The Cyclops Polyphemus provides a useful example of how one monstrous creature can be viewed from multiple perspectives: while the ancient Greeks considered him savage and horrifying, new interpretations demonstrate how Polyphemus exemplifies…
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