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Pygmalion meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer
for iPad/Mac/PC
The popular American TV series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" spanned seven seasons and gained a cult following. But how is it linked to the culture of ancient Greece and Rome? On closer inspection, its characters and narratives are revealed to be new incarnations of ancient classical myths that have filtered down into modern media. This album explores one episode, "I Was Made to Love You", in which Warren creates an artificial perfect girlfriend, just as Pygmalion sculpts an ivory statue to be his partner in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Many interesting parallels demonstrate the way in which...
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I great idea for a course, use buggy the vampire slayer to discuss myth and folklore!
davyrobin4 via Apple Podcasts · Great Britain · 07/22/11
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