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| dc.contributor.author | Tittl, Larissa | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-06T16:33:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-03-06T16:33:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-02-12 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Tittl, Larissa. "From there to here and back again: Evan's Great Goddess, Frazer's Dying King and Mary Renault's popular fiction." Paper presented at the Shaking the Tree, Breaking the Bough: Frazer’s Golden Bough at 100, Melbourne, Australia, February 12, 2023. In New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library. Archives and Special Collections. Valdosta State University. Valdosta, GA. https://hdl.handle.net/10428/7063 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | 595438B4-56EE-8FA1-4783-7A23DF62868B | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10428/7063 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://youtu.be/2zjjK9TDmXA | |
| dc.description | 1 video file. ms150-40-018_tittl-larissa_great-goddess_2023-02-12.mp4 .mp4 551.09 MB 577,861,705 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper will explore how Frazer’s dying god and sacrificial king are taken up and reimagined in The King must Die, by twentieth century novelist Mary Renault. A pathway from Frazer’s dying god and sacrificed king to Renault’s boy-king imagined as Greek hero Theseus is traced through the Frazerian-influenced excavator of Knossos, Sir Arthur Evans, and later British poet Robert Graves. Evans imagines a vegetation-focused ‘Great Goddess’ with a dying son/consort for his Minoans, also drawing on the figures of Minos and the minotaur from later Greek myth: these motifs are central to Renault’s novel. Graves’ influence on Renault, himself deeply influenced by Frazer in The White Goddess, is seen in the novel’s embedded narrative of a matriarchy overpowered by a horse-riding sky-god worshiping patriarchal culture. Renault connects this to the site and cult practices of Eleusis, where Theseus meets an unnamed Queen, and is called upon to kill her husband/king. This paper will explore how Renault reimagines these mythic narratives for her mid-twentieth century audience, embedding these motifs in an ongoing tradition of misinterpretations and misplaced popular assumptions about Bronze Age Crete in a way that continues the work of both Evans and Frazer before him. Additional Authors: Shaking the Tree, Breaking the Bough: Frazer's Golden Bough at 100 (Conference); Tully, Caroline Jane; Budin, Stephanie Lynn; University of Melbourne; | en_US |
| dc.format.mimetype | video/mp4 | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | MS/150/40/;018 | |
| dc.rights | Permission to post this digital asset provided by Larissa Tittl to the Valdosta State University Archives & Special Collections to be part of the New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Renault, Mary. King must die | en_US |
| dc.subject | Renault, Mary--Criticism and interpretation | en_US |
| dc.subject | Frazer, James George, 1854-1941. Golden bough | en_US |
| dc.subject | Conference papers and proceedings | en_US |
| dc.subject | Literary criticism | en_US |
| dc.title | From there to here and back again: Evan's Great Goddess, Frazer's Dying King and Mary Renault's popular fiction | en_US |
| dc.type | Video | en_US |
