Tolkien and the Classical World

Tolkien and the Classical World is a collection of essays edited by Hamish Williams which looks at the classical sources of inspiration behind J.R.R. Tolkien's works. It was published as No. 45 in the Cormarë Series.

Contents

Introduction

  • "Classical Tradition, Modern Fantasy, and the Generic Contracts of Readers" by Hamish Williams

Section 1 - Classical Lives and Histories

  • "Tolkien the Classicist: Scholar and Thinker" by Hamish Williams
  • "Greek and Roman Historiographies in Tolkien's Númenor" by Ross Clare

Section 2 - Ancient Epic and Myth

  • "The Gods in (Tolkien's) Epic: Classical Patterns of Divine Interaction" by Giuseppe Pezzini
  • "Middle-earth as Underworld: From Katabasis to Eucatastrophe" by Benjamin Eldon Stevens
  • "Pietas and the Fall of the City: A Neglected Virgilian Influence on Middle-earth's Chief Virtue" by Austin M. Freeman
  • "The Love Story of Orpheus and Eurydice in Tolkien's Orphic Middle-earth" by Peter Astrup Sundt

Section 3 - In Dialogue with the Greek Philosophers

  • "Plato's Atlantis and the Post-Platonic Tradition in Tolkien's Downfall of Númenor" by Michael Kleu
  • Less Consciously at First but More Consciously in the Revision: Plato's Ring of Gyges as a Putative Source of Inspiration for Tolkien's Ring of Power" by Łukasz Neubauer
  • "Horror and Fury: J.R.R. Tolkien's The Children of Húrin and the Aristotelian Theory of Tragedy" by Julian Eilmann

Section 4 - Around the Borders of the Classical World

  • "'Eastwards and Southwards': Philological and Historical Perspectives on Tolkien and Classicism" by Philip Burton
  • "The Noldorization of the Edain: The Roman-Germani Paradigm for the Noldor and Edain in Tolkien's Migration Era" by Richard Z. Gallant
  • "'Escape and Consolation': Gondor as the Ancient Mediterranean and Rohan as the Germanic World in The Lord of the Rings" by Juliette Harrisson

Section 5 - Shorter Remarks and Observations

  • "Shepherds and the Shire: Classical Pastoralism in Middle-earth" by Alley Marie Jordan
  • "Classical Influences on the Role of Music in Tolkien's Legendarium" by Oleksandra Filonenko and Vitalii Shchepanskyi

Afterword

  • "Afterword: Tolkien's Response to Classics in Its Wider Context" by D. Graham J. Shipley
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