The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth

Debbie Felton is Professor of Classics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research focuses on folklore in classical antiquity, especially tales of the monstrous and supernatural. Her books include Haunted Greece and Rome (1999), the edited volumes Landscapes of Dread in Classical Antiquity (2018) and A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in Antiquity (2021), and Monsters and Monarchs: Serial Killers in Classical Myth and History (2021). She enjoys bringing her research into the public sphere, and has appeared in various media (newspapers, radio, tv, blogs, podcasts, webinars) in the USA and Europe.

Debbie Felton: Introduction: Monster Theory and Classical Antiquity
Part I: Monsters in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East
1: Fiona Mitchell: Monsters in Creation Narratives of Ancient Greece and Rome
2: Madadh Richey: Monsters in Ancient Near Eastern Myth and Religion
3: Leanna Boychenko: Spawned from the Nile: Egyptian Monsters in Greco-Roman Culture
4: William Brockliss: Typhoeus, Agent of Disorder
5: Christina A. Salowey: The Giants: Children of Gaia
6: Daniel Ogden: Dragons
7: Dominic Ingemark and Camilla Asplund Ingemark: The 'Monster-Harbouring Sea': Sea Monsters and Sea Serpents in Ancient Myth
8: Dunstan Lowe: Art Horror: The Gorgons and Medusa
9: R. Scott Smith: The Chimaera
10: Derrek Joyce: Cerberus, Hound of Hades
11: Susan Deacy: Down the Sink Hole: The Lernaean Hydra
12: Mercedes Aguirre and Richard Buxton: Cyclopes
13: Marianne Hopman: Scylla and Charybdis
14: Ryan Denson: Sirens and Harpies: The Enchanting and Repulsive Avian Monsters of Classical Antiquity
15: Carolina López-Ruiz: The Sphinx
16: Stephen M. Trzaskoma: The Minotaur
17: Emma Aston: Human-Animal Hybrids
18: Genevieve Liveley: Monstrous Metamorphoses: Ovid and the Art of Making and Unmaking Monsters
Part II: Monsters in Ancient Folklore and Ethnography
19: Janek Kucharski: Ancient Bogeys: Lamia, Mormo, Empousa, Gello, and Others
20: Julia Doroszewska: Ghosts: The Restless and Unpleasant Dead
21: Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr.: The Monstrous Animals and Animal Monsters of Ancient Greece
22: John B. Friedman: Reading Monstrous Peoples in Ancient Greece and Rome
Part III: Interpreting the Monsters
23: Simon Oswald: Monumental Monsters
24: Andrea Murace: Cryptids in Greek Art
25: Lorenz Winkler-Horaček: Monsters in Ancient Greek Art
26: Greta Hawes: Rationalizing Mythic Monsters in Antiquity
27: Vanda Zajko: Beyond Othering : Classical Monstrosity and Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
28: Jennifer Larson: Gods and Monsters: Cognitive Approaches to the Monstrous
29: Eirini Apanomeritaki: Monsters of the Inner World: Psychoanalytic Approaches
30: Hannah Silverblank and Marchella Ward: Monsters and Disability: The Violence of Interpreting Bodies in Aristotle and Homer
Part IV: The Reception of Classical Monsters
31: Peter Adrian Behravesh: Pearls from a Dark Cloud: Monsters in Persian Myth
32: Arngrímur Vídalín: Plinian Monsters in Old Norse Encyclopedic Literature
33: Antonella Sciancalepore: Ancient Monsters in Medieval Literature and Art
34: Luba Freedman: The Revival of Classical Monsters in the Italian Renaissance
35: Persephone Braham: Classical Monsters in Latin American Cultures
36: Justine McConnell: Recasting Monsters in Postcolonial Art and Literature
37: Katarzyna Marciniak: Classical Monsters in Children s and YA Literature
38: Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Jesse Weiner, and Brett M. Rogers: Ancient Monsters in Modern Speculative Fiction
39: Liz Gloyn: Classical Monsters in Modern Popular Culture: A Case Study in Fan Fiction
40: Debbie Felton: Ancient Monsters in Modern Science