Guest Illustration: Michael Bucci’s Homeric Hymn to Demeter 🏺ClassicsBluesky BlueskyClassics AncientBluesky 🏛️ greekmythcomix.com/comic/guest-...
Read about this artwork and the artist in this accompanying blog post: https://greekmythcomix.com/2024/01/02/guest-illustration-post-michael-bucci/ Artist's note: Two mirroring scenes from the Homeric...
Commiserations! Feeling like your career has stuck really gets you down...
I think we're all in this, one way or another..
Definitely something's coming... ;)
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I've heard about this, a great find! It seems to euhemerise the founding myth, which seems to fall into that 'historical Rome' pattern. I know that Italian pepla had Roman gods on screen, but pepla are another, even bigger can of worms (their milieu seems to mashup everything ancient).
Yeah, that's why it's important not to deal in absolutes here, the boundaries are definitely fuzzy and you can historicise/euhemerise myth anyway, as you wrote. I'd say that mythological film's got to have explicit divine/supernatural involvement (but I'm still pondering this).
Alexander isn't archaic/classical Greece, though? I think it fits more with the empire theme, so obvioulsy more focus on history. I don't think there's any film that focuses on Rome and myth, whereas there are plenty of Greek myth films...
A big question: does modern reception of antiquity primarily use Rome for historical settings and Greece for mythological ones? If yes, why? Has anyone written about this?
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