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This volume presents a survey of the reception of Greek myths - including Antigone, Medea, the Trojan cycle, and Alcestis - in Brazilian literature and stage performance. The collection addresses the work of many innovative authors, some of them great names of Brazilian literature, such as Jorge Andrade and Nelson Rodrigues, who are influential in this specific area of classical reception and well known by modern audiences. This unique volume is the product of collaboration of many scholars with different affiliations under the coordination of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte), two of the most prestigious universities in Brazil for the study of Classical and Reception Studies.

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Carlos Morais, PhD in ancient Greek Literature by the University of Aveiro (UA), is now Professor of the Department of Languages and Cultures at the UA. He has published articles and books, including Portuguese Masks of Antigone (Aveiro, 2001), António Sérgio: Antigone(s) – Four Variations on a Myth (Lisbon, 2020). Fiona Macintosh is a Professor of Classical Reception, Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD) and Fellow of St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford. She has published numerous articles and books, including more recently Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century (2018). Maria de Fátima Silva is Full Professor at the Institute of Classical Studies at the University of Coimbra. She focused in Reception Studies, coordinated and collaborated in volumes such as Portrayals of Antigone in Portugal, Portraits of Medea in Portugal (Brill), The Classical Tradition in Portuguese and Brazilian Poetry. Maria das Graças Moraes Augusto is Full Professor at the Department of Philosophy, at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She published numerous articles and books on Logics and Metaphysics, mainly focused on Plato’s Politeia. Tereza Virgínia Ribeiro Barbosa, PhD from the State University of São Paulo (UNESP), published books and translations, and adapted Homer's poems into comic books, included within the Basic Books Collection by the National Foundation of the Children's and Juvenile's Book, in Brazil 2014. Contributors are : Adélia Silva Carvalho, Alexandre Costa, Alice Carvalho Diniz Leite, Ana Grossi Araújo, Andreia Garavello, António Carlos Hirsh, Carlinda Fragale Pate Nuñez, Carlos Eduardo Lima Gomes, Carlos Morais, Delfim Leão, Fábio Viana, Felipe Cordeiro, Fernando Santoro Moreira, Flávia Vieira Resende, Francisca Luciana Sousa da Silva, Gilson Moraes Mota, Jorge Deserto, Kathrin Rosenfield, Lawrence Flores Pereira, Luísa Severo Buarque de Holanda, Manuela Ribeiro Barbosa, Marcos António Alexandre, Maria António Hörster, Maria de Fátima Silva, Marina Pelluci Duarte Mortoza, Orlando Luiz de Araújo, Renato Cândido da Silva, Sara del Carmen Rojo de la Rosa, Sónia Aparecida dos Anjos, Tereza Virgínia Barbosa, Vanessa Ribeiro Brandão.

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