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"What will happen to our honour now?": The Reception of Aeschylus' Erinyes in Philip Pullman's "The Amber Spyglass"
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This chapter starts with a summary of Pullman’s Underworld passage, a brief look at its ancient sources (especially the Aeneid and also the Odyssey), and a comparison of the Erinyes and Harpies, in particular regarding their appearance and role. It then looks at how both groups of goddesses are persuaded to change their ways and are renamed, and at which cosmic changes are caused by these divine conversions. Finally, the chapter examines how Pullman employs the Harpies to bring about Lyra’s character development and to reflect on the use of persuasion and the act of storytelling itself.
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The volume gathers the results of a stage of the programme Our Mythical Childhood, supported by an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Alumni Award for Innovative Networking Initiatives and an ERC Consolidator Grant.
Open Access at Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH at https://www.winter-verlag.de/en/detail/978-3-8253-7874-5/Marciniak_Ed_Chasing_Mythical_Beasts_PDF/
book/ hardcover ISBN: 978-3-8253-6995-8
Series: Studien zur europäischen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur/Studies in European Children's and Young Adult Literature, Volume No.: 8
Information about Our Mythical Childhood is available at http://omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/
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