Vol. 15 (2022): There and Back Again: Tolkien and the Greco-Roman World (eds. Alicia Matz and Maciej Paprocki)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol15

Published: 2022-10-27

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Articles

• There and Back Again: Tolkien and Greco-Roman Antiquity

  Maciej Paprocki, Alicia Matz

  i-xii

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• The Fall of Two Cities: Troy and Gondolin

  Marco Cristini

  1-24

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• (Classical) Narratives of Decline in Tolkien: Renewal, Accommodation, Focalisation

  Giuseppe Pezzini

  25-51

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• "Orfeo out of Care" The Reception of the Classical Myth of Orpheus from Sir Orfeo to Tolkien

  Elena Sofia Capra

  52-89

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• Platonic Tripartition and the Peoples of Middle-Earth

  Kevin Kambo

  90-122

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• Roman Heroes at Helm’s Deep? Livy, Macaulay, and Tolkien on the Horatius Cocles Episode

  Charles W. Oughton

  123-162

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• Tolkien’s Ithilien and the Landscape of the Ancient Mediterranean

  Christopher Chinn, Phoebe Thompson

  163-203

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• Quis enim laesos impune putaret esse deos?: Ents, Sacred Groves, and the Cost of Desecration

  Alicia Matz

  204-231

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• The Throne of the King The Throne Room in Minas Tirith and Late Antique Ruler Ideology

  Raf Praet

  232-252

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• G. B. Smith’s “Elzevir Cicero” and the Construction of Queer Immortality in Tolkien’s Mythopoeia

  Kathryn H. Stutz

  253-284

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• Legolas in Troy The influence of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies on cinematic portrayals of ancient Greece and Rome

  Antony Keen

  285-313

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Book Reviews

• Review of Hamish Williams: Tolkien and the Classical World Walking Tree Publishers (Zurich/Jena 2021) (= Cormarë Series No. 45), 414 pp . ISBN: 978-3-905703-45-0, 44 €

  Christian Beck

  314-320

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