Classical Mythology

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Ferry, N.Y.: Morgan & Morgan, 1980), p. 160. Another work, danced by three males,
Bas Relief (1926, music by Cyril Scott), is also influenced by the ancient world.


  1. Don McDonagh, Martha Graham (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1975 [1973]), pp.
    80-81 and 85.

  2. George Beiswanger, quoted in ibid., p. 146.

  3. The following three Martha Graham works are easily found on video: Night Journey;
    Errand into the Maze; and Cave of the Heart. The video Martha Graham, an American
    Original in Performance, includes both A Night Journey and A Dancer's World, in which
    she talks about her philosophy as she prepares for her role as Jocasta in a rehearsal
    of Night Journey. Also Martha Graham, the Dancer Revealed presents interviews of ma-
    jor figures in the world of dance and excerpts from her works. A special issue of
    Dance Magazine (July 1991), devoted to Graham is particularly helpful: an article by
    Virginia Brooks (pp. 62-63) discusses Graham's films and where to find them. For
    these and other videos and films see Spain, Dance on Camera.

  4. Graham, Blood Memory, pp. 212-217.

  5. Richard Buckle, George Balanchine, Ballet Master (New York: Random House, 1988),
    p. 45.

  6. An excerpt from Apollo is found on video: The Balanchine Library, The Balanchine Cel-
    ebration, Part 1; and Ballet with Edward Villella, New York City Ballet (Coronet); also
    an excerpt from Agon: Peter Martins: A Dancer. The video Stravinsky gives some em-
    phasis to the collaboration between the composer and the choreographer. For these
    and other videos and films see Spain, Dance on Camera.

  7. Stephen Rebello and Jane Healey, The Art of Hercules: The Chaos of Creation (New York:
    Hyperion, 1987).

  8. The New York Greek Drama Company also offers Songs of Sappho, a re-creation in
    ancient Greek of excerpts.

  9. For an intelligent assessment see Peter W. Rose, "Teaching Greek Myth and Con-
    fronting Contemporary Myths," in Martin M. Winkler, éd., Classics and Cinema (Lewis-
    burg: Bucknell University Press, 1991 [Bucknell Review 35, 1]), pp. 17-39.

  10. Erling B. Holtsmark, Tarzan and Tradition: Classical Myth in Popular Literature (West-
    port, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981).

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