PirithousHippodamiaWedding2.0004_Slover

PirithousHippodamiaWedding2.0004_Slover

Macfarlane on Slover
OGCMA s.v. "Pirithous: Wedding of P. and Hippodamia"

Timothy Slover (2010), The Christmas Chronicles: the legend of Santa Claus — a novel (New York: Bantam), includes an allusion to the Wedding of Pirithous and Hippodamia, i.e. the classical Lapithocentauromachy.

For an excerpt, the chapter entitled "The Magic Reindeer" (61-78), click here.

A book cover showing Santa's sleigh and reindeer flying over a snow-covered village nestled among mountains at dusk

R.T. Macfarlane wrote a little piece about Slover's usage of the Lapithocentauromachy: click here.

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, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
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