Classical Reception and Children’s Literature: Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation Edited by Owen Hodkinson and Helen Lovatt 1 Table of Contents List of Contributors ........................................................................................................ 4 Introduction .................................................................................................................... 9 1. Beyond the World: Gossip, Murder, and the legend of Orpheus............................. 53 Michael Cadnum 2. Interview with Michael Cadnum ............................................................................. 68 Owen Hodkinson Changing Times 3. Aesop the Morphing Fabulist................................................................................... 88 Edith Hall 4. Perspective Matters: Roman Britain in Children’s Novels .................................... 111 Andelys Wood Myths of Change 5. The Paradox of Pan as a Figure of Regeneration in Children's Literature ............ 124 Gillian Bazovsky 6. Arachne’s Web: the Reception of an Ovidian Myth in Works for Children ......... 146 Sheila Murnaghan and Deborah Roberts 7. Narcissus in Children’s Contexts: Didacticism and Scopophilia? ......................... 169 Aileen Hawkins and Alison Poe Didactic Classics 8. “I'd break the slate and scream for joy if I did Latin like a boy!”: Studying and Teaching Classics in Girls’ and Boys’ Fiction .......................................................... 191 Lisa Maurice 9. Latin, Greek, and other classical ‘nonsense’ in the work of Edward Lear ............ 215 Marian Makins 10. Changing Alexandria: Didactic Plots and Roman Detectives in Caroline Lawrence and Lindsey Davis...................................................................................................... 237 Helen Lovatt 2 Narnia and Metamorphoses 11. Ovid Misunderstood: The Metamorphoses in Narnia .......................................... 259 Geoffrey Miles 12. The Horse, the Ass, and Their Boys: C.S. Lewis and the Ending of Apuleius's Golden Ass ................................................................................................................. 275 Niall W. Slater Afterword: Inheriting the past: Children's voices and parenting experiences ........... 285 Caroline Lovatt, Helen Lovatt and Jonathan Lovatt 3 List of Contributors Gillian Bazovsky completed her PhD on 'The Paradox of Pan' in Swansea University Classics department. She has taught literature and related subjects in Adult Education for over twenty five years since graduating from Swansea as a mature student in English Literature and Ancient History & Civilisation. She is also a Specialist Tutor for Humanities students at Swansea University. Prior to taking her degree, she worked in journalism and also for the BBC School Broadcasting Council. She has won prizes for poetry and short stories and is particularly interested in writing for children. Michael Cadnum has published thirty-six books, including The Book of the Lion (2001), a National Book Award Finalist, and By Evening (1992), winner of the Owl Creek Book Award. A contributor to the American Scholar, America and Commonweal, he is a former Creative Writing Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts. Over twenty of his novels, including Starfall: Phaeton and the Chariot of the Sun (2004), and Nightsong: the Legend of Orpheus and Eurydice (2006), have been reintroduced as eBooks by Open Road Media and Audible has released audio editions of several of his novels. This Early Dark: Micro-poetry and Ultra-flash fiction was published in 2016, and Earthquake Murder, a new collection of short stories, is forthcoming. Edith Hall is Professor of Classics at King's College London. She has published more than twenty volumes on ancient literature and its reception. She was awarded the 2015 Erasmus Prize of the Academy of Europe for her research. Her most recent book is Introducing the Ancient Greeks (2015). 4 Aileen Hawkins holds a Master's Degree in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Brown. She currently teaches English at The Potomac School in Virginia, where she also serves as the Upper School technology and innovation coach. Her varied research interests include information literacy, technology implementation in schools, and children's literature. Owen Hodkinson is Lecturer in Greek and Roman Cultures at the University of Leeds. He has published several books and articles on Greek epistolary literature and prose fiction, including a forthcoming monograph, Metafiction in Classical Literature (Routledge 2016), as well as forthcoming chapters on the reception of Heracles in modern children's literature and on classical references in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. Caroline Lovatt is nine and a pupil at Haslingfield Endowed Primary School. She plays the baritone and piano, does gymnastics, tennis, cross country and chess, and loves maths, baking and reading. Helen Lovatt is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Nottingham. She has published two books on epic poetry (Statius and Epic Games, Cambridge 2005 and The Epic Gaze, Cambridge 2013) and an edited volume on vision and epic (Epic Visions, Cambridge 2013). She is currently working on the Argonaut myth, trauma and grief in Virgil’s Aeneid and Flavian epic. She has published several articles on classical reception in children’s literature, on the Argonauts and Caroline Lawrence’s Roman Mysteries. 5 Jonathan Lovatt is twelve, and studies at Comberton Village College. He also plays tennis, hockey, the piano, and the trombone. He takes up many activities such as trampolining, magic tricks, the yoyo, skateboarding and hooting through his hands like an ocarina. Marian W. Makins is Lecturer (Classical Studies) in the Critical Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests centre on Roman literature and cultural history, especially as relates to war, landscape and memory, and on various topics in classical reception. She has published two previous articles on classical receptions in children's literature, both to do with Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy. Lisa Maurice is Senior Lecturer at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. She is the author of The Teacher in Ancient Rome: the Magister and his World (Lexington 2013), editor of The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children’s Literature: Heroes and Eagles, (Brill, 2015) and of Rewriting the Ancient World: Greece and Rome in Modern Popular Fiction, and co-editor, with Eran Almagor, of Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture: Beauty, Bravery, Blood and Glory (both forthcoming, Brill). She has also published a range of articles on Plautus and on the reception of the ancient world in popular culture. Geoffrey Miles is Senior Lecturer in English at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, where he teaches Renaissance literature, classical receptions, and children’s literature. He is the author of Shakespeare and the Constant Romans 6 (Clarendon Press, 1996), editor of Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical Anthology (Routledge, 1999), and co-author of two works on New Zealand literature, The Snake-Haired Muse: James K. Baxter and Classical Myth and A Made- Up Place: New Zealand in Young Adult Fiction (both Victoria University Press, 2011). He is currently working on a study of the Pygmalion legend in English literature. Sheila Murnaghan is the Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Professor of Greek at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey (2nd edition 2011) and the co-editor of Women and Slaves in Greco-Roman Culture: Differential Equations (1998), Odyssean Identities in Modern Cultures: The Journey Home (2014), and Hip Sublime: Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition (2018). Her current projects include a commentary on Sophocles’ Ajax and a Norton Critical Edition of Sophocles’ Antigone. She is also the co-author, with Deborah H. Roberts, of a forthcoming book on childhood and the classics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Alison Poe has a Ph.D. in Art History from Rutgers and teaches online for the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Fairfield University. With Marice Rose, she co-edited the volume Receptions of Antiquity, Constructions of Gender in European Art, 1300-1600 in the Brill Metaforms series (2015). Other publications and conference papers have dealt with Roman and late antique funerary art and architecture; early Christian iconography; and classical reception in Eva Hesse’s 1966 Laocoon. Deborah H. Roberts is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Haverford College. She has published articles on Greek tragedy, 7 Aristotle’s Poetics, classical reception (especially in children’s literature), and translation studies, and is the author of Apollo and his Oracle in the Oresteia (Göttingen 1984), co-editor (with Francis Dunn and Don Fowler) of Reading the End: Closure in Greek and Latin Literature (Princeton 1997), and translator of Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound (Indianapolis 2012) and other Greek tragedies. She is also the co-author, with Sheila Murnaghan, of a forthcoming book on childhood and the classics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Niall W. Slater (Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Latin and Greek, Emory University) focuses on the ancient theatre and performance, prose fiction, and popular reception of classical literature. His books include Spectator Politics: Metatheatre and Performance in