"Our Mythical Education"

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Katarzyna Marciniak, In the Circle of Chiron’s Pupils, or: A Foreword by the Series Editor 11

Notes on Contributors 17

List of Figures and Tables 25

Acknowledgements by Lisa Maurice 31

Lisa Maurice, Introduction 33

Part I: Our Mythical Education in Western EuropeAriadne Konstantinou, Modern Greek “Prehistory”: Ancient Greek Myth and Mycenaean Civilization in Modern Greek Education 49

Valentina Garulli, Our Mythical Fascism? Classical Mythology at School during the Italian Fascist Twenty-Year Period 69

Luis Unceta Gómez, A Hundred Years of Classical Mythology in Spanish Educational Systems 93

Markus Janka and Michael Stierstorfer, Metamorphoses of Mythological Education: Ovid and His Metamorphoses as Subjects of Secondary Education in Germany 123

Arlene Holmes-Henderson, Developing Multiliteracies through Classical Mythology in British Classrooms 139

Part II: Our Mythical Education in Central and Eastern Europe Hanna Paulouskaya, Learning Myths in the Soviet School 155

Elena Ermolaeva and Lev Pushel, Classical Languages, Culture, and Mythology at the Classical Gymnasium of Saint Petersburg 189

Janusz Ryba, Greek and Roman Mythology in Classical Education in Poland after 1945 209

Katarzyna Marciniak and Barbara Strycharczyk, Macte animo! – or, The Polish Experiment with “Classics Profiles” in Secondary School Education: The Warsaw Example 237

Part III: Our Antipodean Mythical EducationElizabeth Hale and Anna Foka, Myths of Classical Education in Australia: Fostering Classics through Fabrication, Visualization, and Reception 295

Babette Puetz, Odysseus Down Under: Classical Myth in New Zealand School Education 311

Part IV: Our American Mythical EducationEmily Gunter and Dan Curley, “The Greatest Stories Ever Told”: US Classical Mythology Courses in the New Millennium 325

Alex McAuley, Reconciling Catholicism with the Classics: Mythology in French Canadian Catholic Education 349

Ricardo Gancz and Pablo Silva Machado Bispo dos Santos, The Contribution of Graeco-Roman Mythology to the Formation of Brazilian National Identity 377

Part V: Our Far-Flung Mythical Education: Africa, Asia, and the Middle EastDivine Che Neba and Daniel A. Nkemleke, Revisioning Classical Mythology in African Dramaturgy: A Study of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex and Ola Rotimi’s The Gods Are Not to Blame 399

Claudia C.J. Fratini, Crossing the Parallel Universe(s): An Experimental, Multicultural, and Interdisciplinary Approach to Using Mythology in the South African Classroom 419

Ayelet Peer and Marie Højlund Roesgaard, The Emperor, the Sun, and Olympus: Mythology in the Modern Japanese Education System 443

Lisa Maurice, Classical Mythology and the Israeli Educational System 465

Lisa Maurice, Afterword: Some Concluding Thoughts 485

Bibliography 493

Index of Names 553

Index of the Main Concepts and Mythological Figures 561