Penlope2.0002_Moravia

Penelope2.0002_Moravia

OGCMA s.v. "Penelope"
NYTimes Review of Books
imdb.com
Ovid Heroid. 4.605-11
Apollodorus Libr. 2.2-4

Alberto Moravia, Il Disprezzo translated as A Ghost at Noon and later after its cinematic adaptation as Contempt.

Moravia presents an extended use of the Odyssey paradigm as he explores the disintegration of a previously viable marriage. Riccardo and Emilia tend toward irreconcilable separation as a cinematic producer, Battista, forms an unwelcome triangle in their world. —
The Kirkus Review gives a quick summary.

Jean Lúc Godard's film Le Mépris (1963), starring Michel Piccoli and Bridget Bardot, is a powerful adaptation of Moravia's novel.

Horton, Andrew. "Godard's 'Contempt': Alberto Moravia Transformed," College Literature 5.3 (Fall 1978) 205-12. Stable URL http://www.jstor.org/stable/25111233

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
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