Antiquity in Media Studies March Event
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“Novel Classics” – 1:00-2:00
Tolkien’s The Bovadium Fragments: A Metareception of Classics with a Dark Academia Twist (Alicia Matz)
The Orpheus/Eurydice Motif in Hamnet (Beverly J. Graf)
A New Song for Homer’s Women (Theshira Pather)
The Underworld in Games – 2:15-3:15
“Some Business to Resolve”: Mytho-narrative generation in Hades 2 (Mik Larsen)
“A Bit of Our Old Pride”: Reparative Queer Care and Heroic Ambivalence in Hades (Rick Castle)
An Interactive Fiction Game: How I Got Out of Jail by Reassembling Osiris (Ruya Tazebay & Sophia Ling)
“Subverting the canon” – 3:30-4:30
Mythology Mashup in Charlie Covell’s KAOS (Lynn Kozak)
From Glory to Charity: Subversion and Continuity in Rick Riordan’s Mythic Storytelling (Freya Riebling)
Visualizing the Monstrous Feminine: A Comparative Analysis of Scylla in Ancient Art and in Epic: The Musical (2024) (Melanie Naples)