Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
List of Figures
Introduction
Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos

I. Helen
1. Gazing at Helen: Helen as Polysemous Icon in Robert Wise's Helen of Troy and Michael Cacoyannis' The Trojan Women, Bella Vivante
2. 'Third Cheerleader from the Left': From Homer's Helen to Helen of Troy, Ruby Blondell

II. Medea
3. Medea's Erotic Text in Jason and the Argonauts (1963), Kirk Ormand
4. Pasolini's Medea: A Twentieth Century Tragedy, Susan O. Shapiro
5. Rebel and Martyr: The Medea of Lars von Trier, Annette M. Baertschi

III. Penelope
6. 'Madonna and Whore': The Many Faces of Penelope in Camerini's Ulisse (1954), Joanna Paul
7. Why is Penelope Still Waiting? The Missing Feminist Reappraisal of the Odyssey in Cinema: 1963-2007, Edith Hall

IV. Other Mythical Women
8. The Women of Ercole, Arthur J. Pomeroy
9. Annihilating Clytemnestra: The Severing of the Mother-Daughter Bond in Michael Cacoyannis' Iphigenia (1977), Anastasia Bakogianni
10. Mythic Women in Tony Harrison's Prometheus, Hallie Rebecca Marshall

V. Historical Women
11. Between Family and the Nation: Gorgo in the Cinema, Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos
12. Representing Olympias: The Politics of Gender in Cinematic Treatments of Alexander the Great, Kirsten Day
13. 'An Almost All Greek Thing': Cleopatra VII and Hollywood Imagination, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

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