Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations

Introduction: Where Metal and Classics Meet, K. F. B. Fletcher (Louisiana State University, USA) and O. Umurhan (University of New Mexico, USA)
1. Vergil’s Aeneid and Nationalism in Italian Metal, K. F. B. Fletcher (Louisiana State University, USA)
2. Eternal Defiance: Celtic Identity and the Classical Past in Heavy Metal, Matthew Taylor (Beloit College, USA)
3. Screaming Ancient Greek Hymns: The Case of Kawir and the Greek Black Metal Scene, Christodoulos Apergis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
4. Cassandra’s Plight: Gender, Genre, and Historical Concepts of Femininity in Goth and Power Metal, Linnea Åshede (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) and Anna Foka, Sweden)
5. Heavy Metal Dido: Heimdall’s “Ballad of the Queen”, Lissa Crofton-Sleigh (Santa Clara University, USA)
6. A Metal monstrum: Ex Deo’s Caligula, Iker Magro-Martínez (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
7. Occult and Pulp Visions of Greece and Rome in Heavy Metal, Jared Secord (Washington State University, USA)
8. “When the Land was Milk and Honey and Magic was Strong and True”: Edward Said, Ancient Egypt, and Heavy Metal, Leire Olabarria (University of Oxford, UK)
9. Coda: Some Trends in Metal’s Use of Classical Antiquity, Osman Umurhan (University of New Mexico, USA)

Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

Explores the many ways that heavy metal music is inspired by and draws on material from the ancient Greek and Roman world

About the Author

K. F. B. Fletcher is Associate Professor of Classics at Louisiana State University, USA.
Osman Umurhan is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of New Mexico, USA.

Reviews

[The] first attempt to break new ground by marrying Classics with metal music studies in an edited volume.
*Bryn Mawr Classical Review*

A well-researched, academic yet engaging and thoughtful volume.
*Scene Point Blank*

The way in which the topic has been approached has the advantage of making the content accessible to academics from various disciplines and subject areas and non-academics, including metal fans, with or without a background in classical literature … A welcome contribution to a number of fields including classical studies, reception studies, popular musicology and metal music studies.
*The Classical Review*

Tackles an array of complex contemporary issues.
*History Today*

Rich and stimulating ... The book should be hailed as a significant contribution to the study of the reception of antiquity in pop culture.
*Anabases (trans. by Bloomsbury Academic)*

A stimulating anthology … the inspiring articles are worth reading in many respects. One can rather hope that further volumes of this kind will follow.
*Thersites (Bloomsbury translation)*