Our Mythical Nature: People

Alessia Borriello
Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna / Erasmus Programme
alessia.borriello2@studio.u...
Aesop’s Fables in T-Series Kids Hut on Youtube: Animal beyond Actant?

Rachel Bryant-Davies
School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, Queen Mary University of London
“The frailty of sublunary things”: Classical Myth, Pedagogical Media, and Moral Education in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Krishni Burns
Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, University of Illinois Chicago
Mythical Skyscapes: Constellation Myths in Educational Picture Books on Astronomy

Eleanor A. Dasi
Department of English ENS, University of Yaoundé 1
Patterns of Nature Imagery: Re-reading the Past and Inventing the Present in Yael Farber's "Molora"

Susan Deacy
School of Humanities, University of Roehampton
"Hercules [...] went out to a quiet place and sat, pondering" (Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.1.21): What Happened Here and Why It 'Speaks' to Autistic Children

Didymus T. Douanla
Department of English ENS, University of Yaoundé 1
Mythic Consciousness and Ecological Redemption in “E.X.O. The Legend of Wale Williams” by Roye Okupe

Raimund Fichtel
Institute of Classical Philology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
raimund.fichtel@klassphil.u...
The “Venus Grotto“ of Ludwig II. of Bavaria – The Childhood Dream of a Gentle Tiberius

Frances Foster
Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
Gods and Landscape in Megan Whalen Turner’s “The Thief”

Elizabeth Hale
School of Arts, University of New England
Witi Ihimaera’s “Whale Rider” and the Ulysses of the Pacific

Markus Janka
Institute of Classical Philology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
markus.janka@klassphil.uni-...
“Mens antiqua manet” – “The Mind of Old Remains” (Ovid, “Metamorphoses” 2.485): Humanized Animals and Trees in Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” and Contemporary Children’s and Young Adults’ Literature

Katarzyna Jerzak
Institute of Modern Languages, Pomeranian University in Słupsk
A Dead Bird and a Cenotaph: Echoes of Antiquity in Janusz Korczak’s “King Matt on the Desert Island” (1923) and Margaret Wise Brown’s “The Dead Bird” (1938)

Przemysław Kordos
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Low Fantasy, High Conscience: Ecology in Some Exomimetic Worlds

Karolina Kulpa
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Antiquity Flavours in the Literary Cuisine of Małgorzata Musierowicz

Christian Laes
School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester
Dysfunctional and Pitied? Multiple Experiences of Being ‘a Disabled Child’ in Antiquity

Katarzyna Marciniak
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Geralt on Climate Strikes: Ancient Motifs and Ecology in Andrzej Sapkowski’s Cycle of the Witcher

Lisa Maurice
Department of Classical Studies, Bar-Ilan University
The God Pan in Children’s Fiction and Culture

Anna Mik
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Mythical Labyrinthine Nature in Jan Bajtlik’s "Greek Myths and Mazes"

Sheila Murnaghan
Department of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania
The Secret Lives of Trees: Tales of Natural Transformation in Classical Myths for Children

Divine Che Neba
Department of English ENS, University of Yaoundé 1
Patterns of Nature Imagery: Re-reading the Past and Inventing the Present in Yael Farber's "Molora"

Sonya Nevin
School of Humanities, University of Roehampton / Panoply Vase Animation Project
Imagining Africa: Classical Antiquity in the Brontë Juvenilia / Create Your Own Ancient Vase Workshop

Daniel A. Nkemleke
Department of English ENS, University of Yaoundé 1
Patterns of Nature Imagery: Re-reading the Past and Inventing the Present in Yael Farber's "Molora"

Elżbieta Olechowska
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Nothing Ancient Resonates with Children as Deeply as the Concept of an Animal Daemon

Beatrice Palmieri
Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna / Erasmus Programme
beatrice.palmieri@studio.un...
Gianni Rodari and the Myth of Atalanta: The Role of Nature in Knowledge of Culture

Amanda Potter
Open University
Save the Monster, Save the World: Living in Harmony with Monsters in “Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind”, “Princess Mononoke”, and “Monstress”

Marta Pszczolińska
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Domestic Animals: Minimus the Mouse and Vibrissa the Cat as a Latin Learning Supporting Team in "Minimus. Starting out in Latin" Textbook

Babette Puetz
School of Languages and Cultures, Victoria University of Wellington
The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, AD 79, in Children's Literature

Miriam Riverlea
Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education, University of New England
Bushfire, Myths and Mallacoota

Deborah H. Roberts
Department of Classics, Haverford College
Natural Disaster, Social Change: Volcanic Eruptions in Children’s Literature

Sonja Schreiner
Department of Classical Philology, Medieval and Neolatin Studies, University of Vienna
Witty Education: Environment and Nature as Atmospheric Background in Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariä's (1726–1777) Mock Heroic Poetry

Michael Stierstorfer
Gymnasium Kloster Schäftlarn
Ancient Mythology as a Vehicle to Save Environment? The Islands of Atlantis and Helios in Current Future Fiction

Robert A. Sucharski
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Halina Rudnicka and Her Ancient Trilogy or on the Nature of the True Hero(ine)s

Karoline Thaidigsmann
Slavic Department, University of Heidelbeg
From Questions of Cultural Identity to the Challenges of a Globalized World. Crosswriting in Polish Literature since 1989 (A Résumé About Crossover Literature as a Means of Communicating with an Adult Readership)

Katerina Volioti
School of Humanities, University of Roehampton
katerina.volioti@roehampton...
A Post-humanist Perspective: Plants, Animals, and Things in Children’s Books about the Classical Past