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The Hero Reloaded: The reinvention of the classical hero in contemporary mass media
Edited by Rosario López Gregoris and Cristóbal Macías Villalobos
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 23] 2020
► pp. 159–160

Index

A

  • Achilles vii–viii , 4–6 , 9, 33, 51, 54–55 , 58–60 , 63–66 , 68–69 , 77, 84–85 , 90, 95, 151
  • Aeneasvii, x, 4, 63, 95, 113, 121
  • Aeschylus 67–68
  • Alexander54, 66, 68see also Alexander the Great
  • Alexander the Great 58–59 , 66See Alexander
  • Allen, Woody ix–x , 21, 129, 132–134 , 136–137 , 139
  • anti-herox, 98, 148, 154–155 ; see also anti-heroism155
  • aristeia ix, 103, 109, 111–112 , 115–116
  • avatarx, 29, 73, 75–77 , 79–80 , 90, 101, 124, 154

B

  • Bechdel, Alisonx, xii–xiii , 143–145 , 148, 152

C

  • cinema2, 21, 55, 80, 89, 98, 103–105 , 112, 119–121 , 128, 130–132 , 139
  • Clash of the Titans 9, 32, 44
  • classical antiquityxi, 1–3 , 21, 25, 122see also classical culture28, 46–48 , 56
    • legacy70, 129–130
    • reception 1–3 , 16, 143, 146–147
    • traditionix, xii, 1, 3, 14, 19, 32, 42, 49, 51–53 , 57, 69, 129
  • comic x–xiii , 1–3 , 6, 8–11 , 20, 29, 33, 55, 89, 104, 107, 110, 136, 138, 143–147 , 151
  • Cretan myths150, 156

D

  • Daedalus and Icarusx, 148–149
  • death viii–ix , 8, 25, 27–28 , 31, 37, 44–46 , 58, 60, 62, 64, 68, 77, 79, 84, 87, 89, 97, 103–104 , 106–108 , 110–111 , 114–115 , 118–124 , 131–132 , 145, 149, 155
  • Disney viii–x , 7, 13, 19, 21–24 , 26, 30–37 , 39–41 , 43–44 , 46–47 , 82

E

  • El héroe viii, xi, 1, 10–12 , 14
  • elitismxi, 55–56 , 70
  • epicix, xi, 10, 20, 45, 51–53 , 55, 58–60 , 62–65 , 69, 74, 77, 81–82 , 84, 99, 103–107 , 109–113 , 116, 118–119 , 122–123 , 125, 130, 151–152

F

  • fiction 3–9 , 11, 33, 62, 77–78 , 125
  • Freud, Sigmund 132–133

G

  • gameplay73, 75–76 , 79
  • graphic novelx, xii–xiii , 7, 10, 13, 143–145 , 148, 153, 155–156
  • Greco-Roman antiquity4, 8
  • Greek tragedy19, 41, 58
  • grotesqueix, 103, 106–109 , 114, 116–117 , 119–120 , 122–125

H

  • Harry Potterxi, 19, 44–45 , 49
  • Heavy Metal ix–xi , 15, 51, 53–58 , 60–70
  • Herculesviii, x–xi , 1, 6, 8–11 , 13, 19, 22–49 , 69, 82, 88
  • Hercules viii, 10–11 , 19, 21–23 , 26, 29–49 , 55, 82
  • hero passim see also anti-herosuperheroheroic condition46, 77, 81, 83, 86–87
    • heroinexiii, 8, 31, 85, 125, 143, 155, 157
    • heroismx, xiii, 28, 109, 115, 117–118 , 122, 125, 155, 157
  • Homerx, 44, 63, 104, 107, 112, 118, 143, 148, 151, 156see also Homeric24, 64–65 , 69, 113, 148, 151, 153–155
  • hybridizationxi, 47, 143, 149, 156

I

  • Iliad 6, 51, 63–65 , 69, 119, 152
  • inversionix, 14, 24, 103, 122, 149

J

  • Jocasta131, 133, 137
  • Joyce, Jamesx, 143, 148, 154–156

K

  • Kleos andron 51

L

  • Lucanix, 103–113 , 115–118 , 120–121 , 123, 125

M

  • mass culture19, 21, 33, 42, 49, 103, 146
  • mass mediavii, xii, 4, 65
  • movie 29–32 , 36, 38–39 , 41–43 , 47, 55, 65–66 , 82, 89, 116, 120
  • mythology 3–4 , 8, 21–22 , 26–27 , 30, 36, 43, 47–49 , 58, 62, 65, 70, 77–78 , 80, 90, 130–131 , 134

O

  • Odyssey x, 22, 26–28 , 51, 58–59 , 64–65 , 68–69 , 148, 150–156
  • Oedipus ix–x , 27, 34, 41, 129–135 , 137–139
  • Ovid67, 104, 116

P

  • Patroclus6, 64–65
  • playerix, 11, 73–80 , 84–86 , 88, 90–94 , 97, 99–101
  • popular cultureviii, 1, 4–5 , 9–10 , 19–20 , 31, 46, 52, 54, 57, 73, 80–81 , 83, 86, 88, 100, 103
  • popular music20, 51–53
  • psychoanalyst 134–135 , 137–138

R

  • reader-viewerix, 103, 106
  • reality7, 76–77 , 107–109 , 113, 117, 122, 125, 143, 145
  • Rubínviii, xi, 1, 10–12 , 14

S

  • sexual identityx, 143, 150–151 , 153–154 , 157
  • Silius Italicusix, 103–104
  • Sophoclesix, 30, 129, 131–133
  • Spartacus59, 103–104 , 109, 119–120 , 122, 124
  • Spartacus ix, xiii, 59, 103–105 , 109, 119, 123, 125, 130
  • superheroviii, 1, 4–7 , 9–10 , 13–14 , 33, 37, 89, 99, 123, 147
  • Superman 4–8 , 13, 19, 33–37 , 47, 86, 99–100
  • Superman ix, 19, 33–36

T

  • Turnus95, 121
  • tragicix, 21, 51, 53, 63, 67–68 , 77, 95, 129, 132
  • transmediality4, 13
  • Troy30, 64, 99
  • Troy 44, 54–55 , 65

U

  • Ulysses3, 10, 51, 69, 85, 95, 155
  • Ulysses x, 3, 10, 51, 69, 85, 95, 148, 152, 154–156

V

  • videogameix, 13, 73–93 , 95, 97–100 , 124
  • villainix, 6, 44, 94–96 , 98, 122
  • Virgil44, 59, 104, 107, 109, 112–113 , 118
  • Virgin Steele54, 58, 62, 67–68