Good, the Bad and the Ancient

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Introduction: America and Antiquity: Force and Thumos in the Western

Sue Matheson

Prologos

West of "Them": Classical Allusions in Western Film

Kirsten Day

Aristotle and the Wild West: The Western as a Rhetorical Device

Chris Yogerst

Tragic Trails in Indian Country

Chorei, -Satyr-Drama, and the Birth of Tragedy in John Ford's Cheyenne Autumn (1964)

Sue Matheson

Peckinpah and the Problem of Catharsis; or: How Well Does The Wild Bunch Fit Aristotle's Poetics?

Martin M. Winkler

Euripidean Sunsets: Tragedy, the Western, and Conflicts Within

Maria Cecilia de Miranda N. Coelho

Cowboys and Catharsis

Pharmakos and the Bad Citizen Topos in Charles Marquis Warren's Westerns: Trooper Hook, Tension at Table Rock and Charro!

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns

"Scratched blood": The Erinyes and Anthony Mann's The Furies

Kelly MacPhail

The Splendor of Bart Allison: Antigone and the Tragic Western Hero

Christopher Minz

Homer on Horseback

Homer's Odyssey and Cattle Drive Westerns

Andrew Howe

Lonesome Dove: Uva uvam vivendo varia fit and Tragic Elements in a Western Epic

Benjamin Hufbauer

Blondie's Odyssey: The Homeric Journey and American Mythmaking in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Christopher J. Olson

Writing and Rewriting History: Myth in the Iliad and Heaven's Gate

Brian Brems

Catastrophe

Gunsmoke's Boot Hill and the Classical Underworld

Jim Daems

Orpheus on the Frontier: Slow West

Cynthia J. Miller

Influence of Classical Literature in Western Film: A Selective Bibliography

Camille McCutcheon

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