Classical Antiquity in Heavy Metal Music

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 Ashede (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-Martinez (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