PerseusAndromeda2.0101

PerseusAndromeda2.0101_Neofotistou

Sarah Lo (?) "Point of Reception Essay"
Moog-Grünewald RMM s.v. "Perseus"
OGCMA s.v. "Perseus and Andromeda"

Christina Neofotistou, "Perseus and Andromeda — a Role Inversion," computer graphic, 2002.

"This tradition[al male rescuer-role] was questioned and subverted in a graphic by the Greek digital artist ... in which the phallic P[erseus] role is given to a female figure and the erotic Andromeda role to a male." (V. Mergenthaler in RMM s.v. "Perseus" fig.2.

The image at right is derived from the site given above, an article written apparently by Sarah Lo.

Surreal painting of Perseus saving Andromeda, with a winged hero, a chained figure, and a monstrous kraken in choppy seas under stormy skies

Mergenthaler, Volker, “Perseus”, in: Brill’s New Pauly Supplements I - Volume 4 : The Reception of Myth and Mythology, English edition by David van Eijndhoven, Christine Salazar, and Francis G. Gentry (2010). Original German-language edition: Mythenrezeption: Die antike Mythologie in Literatur, Musik und Kunst von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Herausgegeven von Maria Moog-Grünewald. Serie: Der Neue Pauly Supplemente 1. Staffel, herausgegeben von Hubert Cancik, Manfred Landfester und Helmuth Schneider, Band 5. Stuttgart, Germany. Copyright © J.B. Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung und Carl Ernst Poeschel Verlag GmbH (2008). Consulted online on 13 April 2021

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
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