"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