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In the Footsteps of Ancient Monsters: Otherness, Fear, and Taboo in Contemporary Popular Culture

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In the Footsteps of Ancient Monsters: Otherness, Fear, and Taboo in Contemporary Popular Culture
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Ancient monsters didn't disappear with the ancient world. Medusa, the Minotaur, sirens, satyrs, and harpies reappear time and again in films, television series, fantasy novels, and video games, constantly acquiring new meanings. Elizabeth Gloyne, a philologist, linguist, and Associate Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Royal Holloway College (UK), analyzes images of ancient monsters in popular culture over the past 70 years to answer fundamental questions: what compels each new generation to revisit ancient monsters, and how have our ideas about fear, otherness, power, and humanity changed? Monsters are never "just monsters": they reflect anxieties, doubts, forbidden desires, and cultural conflicts of the time.
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