Helen Morales

Author of Classical Mythology: A Very Short Introduction

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About the Author

Helen Morales holds the Argyropoulos Chair in Hellenic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Morales is the author of Classical Mythology: A Very Short Introduction and Pilgrimage to Dollywood: A Country Music Road Trip Through Tennessee. She lives with her family in Santa Barbara.

Works by Helen Morales

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Classical Mythology: A Very Short Introduction (2007) 355 copies, 4 reviews

Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths (2020) 127 copies, 2 reviews

Greek Fiction: Callirhoe, Daphnis and Chloe, Letters of Chion (Penguin Classics) (2011) — Editor — 59 copies

Pilgrimage to Dollywood: A Country Music Road Trip through Tennessee (2014) 34 copies, 2 reviews

Intratextuality: Greek and Roman Textual Relations (2000) — Editor — 8 copies

Vision and Narrative in Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon (2004) 5 copies

'High-table miscellanies' in TLS 5705, 3 August 2012 [review of new Loeb ed of Athenaeus' 'Deipnosophistae' as 'The… 1 copy

El resurgir de Antígona: El poder subversivo de los mitos (2022) 1 copy

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Associated Works

The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel (2008) — Contributor — 22 copies

Constructing Identities in Late Antiquity (1999) — Contributor — 6 copies

Fiction on the fringe novelistic writing in the post-classical age (2009) — Contributor — 6 copies

Art and Text in Roman Culture (1996) — Contributor — 3 copies

Reading Heliodorus' Aethiopica (2022) — Contributor — 2 copies

Arethusa (vol 49 no 1) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Legal name: Morales, Helen Louise
Birthdate: 1970-05-01
Gender: female
Occupations: professor
Organizations: University of Cambridge

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Classical mythology : a very short introduction by Helen Morales

I enjoyed the investigation into how myth is still being interpreted. Exploring the ideas of how myth transcends the individual and is interpreted through the community as a civic activity is very interesting.
It is not a primer on the myths in the fashion of Edith Hamilton of Robert Graves, but a more nueanced look at how mythology is active in understanding the world around us.

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jason.bell | 3 other reviews | Aug 20, 2024 |

Pilgrimage to Dollywood: A Country Music Road Trip… by Helen Morales

Reading books about travel and pilgrimage usually makes me want to go too. I did like Pilgrimage to Dollywood but at the end of the book I am sure I do not want to go to Dollywood or Graceland or most of the other sites visited in this story. The visit to Graceland especially sound like a terrible rushed crowded and controlled experience. I would not have liked that. The author is an English classics professor teaching at the University of California in Santa Barbara. A big fan of Dolly Parton she set out to visit a number of sites in Dolly's home state of Tennessee including Elvis Presley's home and shrine. Graceland, and Dolly Parton's amusement park Dollywood. Morales's observations of American culture and music were very astute but I will not be following her steps.

Pilgrimage to Dollywood was one in a series of books published by the University of Chicago Press on literary tourism and pilgrimage. The other that I read was Freud's Couch, reviewed by me somewhere on Goodreads. I am looking forward to the next one in the series and I hope the University of Chicago Press makes it one of their monthly free e-books.… (more)

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MMc009 | 1 other review | Jan 30, 2022 |

Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient… by Helen Morales

So little has changed in 2,500 years, how?

Anyway, reviewed this for Shelf Awareness, will try to remember to share the link when it goes up.

Recommended for people who want an inclusive feminist examination of Greek mythology and their lasting impact on (primarily Western) humanity

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Cerestheories | 1 other review | Nov 8, 2021 |

Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient… by Helen Morales

Morales takes the gender and sexuality elements of Greek and Roman myths that are usually glossed over (or at least they were in my schools) and shines a spotlight on them. She points out the ways in which Classical mythology has been used to perpetuate mysogyny and white supremacy, and she celebrates the ways that modern artists are reimagining and reclaiming these myths. It's an exciting and inspiring read. I can't wait to share it with my daughter.

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ImperfectCJ | 1 other review | Mar 12, 2021 |

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