Wonder Woman, Amazon Princess; Asterix, indefatigable Gaul; Ozymandias, like Alexander looking for new worlds to conquer. Comics use classical sources, narrative patterns, and references to
enrich their imaginative worlds and deepen the stories they present.Son of Classics and Comics explores that rich interaction. This volume presents thirteen original studies of
representations of the ancient world in the medium of comics. Building on the foundation established by their groundbreakingClassics and Comics (OUP, 2011), Kovacs and Marshall have
gathered a wide range of studies with a new, global perspective. Chapters are helpfully grouped to facilitate classroom use, with sections on receptions of Homer, on manga, on Asterix, and on
the sense of a ’classic’ in the modern world. All Greek and Latin are translated. Lavishly illustrated, the volume widens the range of available studies on the reception of the Greek and Roman
worlds in comics significantly, and deepens our understanding of comics as a literary medium. Son of Classics and Comics will appeal to students and scholars of classical reception as
well as comics fans.
