O'Brien, Maeve
(2018)
Fantasy Island: Greece and Rome in Two Eighteenth Century Irish Authors.
Classics Ireland, 25.
pp. 25-62.
ISSN 0791-9417
Abstract
Two Irish authors from the ‘long eighteenth-century’ are
examples of how Ireland, an island remote from the
centre, absorbs and reforms Greco-Roman culture. In the
west of Ireland, in Galway, when Roderic O’Flaherty
(1629-1718) wanted a title for his history of Ireland
published in Latin 1685 he chose Ogygia, Or a
Chronological Account of Irish events /Ogygia seu Rerum
Hibernicarum Chronlogica. Psyche: or The Legend of
Love by Mary Tighe (1772-1810) draws on the central
section of a second-century AD novel Apuleius’
Metamorphoses, the story of Cupid and Psyche (M. 4.28-
6.24). Two Irish authors remake what they have chosen
from the classics of Greece and Rome into two totally
different contributions to creation of a ‘fantasy’ Ireland.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
fantasy island; Greece; Rome; two eighteenth century Irish authors; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Arts & Humanities > Ancient Classics |
| Item ID: |
16099 |
| Depositing User: |
Maeve O'Brien
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| Date Deposited: |
14 Jun 2022 14:49 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Classics Ireland |
| Publisher: |
Classical Association of Ireland |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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