Cover -- The Oxford Handbook Of Monsters In Classical Myth -- Copyright -- Contents -- List Of Figures -- List Of Abbreviations -- List Of Abbreviations Of Classical Authors And Titles As Used In This Volume -- List Of Contributors -- Notes On Usage -- Introduction: Monster Theory And Classical Myth -- Part I: Monsters In The Ancient Mediterranean And Near East -- 1. Monsters In Creation Narratives Of Ancient Greece And Rome -- 2. Monsters In Ancient Near Eastern Myth And Religion -- 3. Spawned From The Nile: Egyptian Monsters In Graeco-​roman Culture -- 4. Typhoeus, Agent Of Disorder 5. The Giants: Children Of Gaea -- 6. Dragons -- 7. The 'monster-​harbouring Sea': Sea Monsters And Sea Serpents In Ancient Myth -- 8. Art Horror: Medusa And Her Sister Gorgons -- 9. The Chimaera -- 10. Cerberus, Hound Of Hades -- 11. Down The Sinkhole: The Lernaean Hydra -- 12. Cyclopes -- 13. Scylla And Charybdis -- 14. Sirens And Harpies: The Enchanting And Repulsive Avian Monsters Of Classical Antiquity -- 15. The Sphinx -- 16. The Minotaur -- 17. Human-​animal Hybrids -- 18. Monstrous Metamorphoses: Ovid And The Art Of Making And Unmaking Monsters Part Ii: Monsters In Ancient Folklore And Ethnography -- 19. Ancient Bogeys: Lamia, Mormo, Empousa, Gello, And Others -- 20. Ghosts: The Restless And Unpleasant Dead -- 21. The Monstrous Animals And Animal Monsters Of Ancient Greece -- 22. Reading Monstrous Peoples In Ancient Greece And Rome -- Part Iii: Interpreting The Monsters -- 23. Monumental Monsters -- 24. Cryptids In Greek Art -- 25. Image And Monster In Ancient Greek Art -- 26. Rationalizing Mythic Monsters In Antiquity -- 27. Beyond 'othering': Classical Monstrosity And Feminism In The Twenty-​first Century 28. Gods And Monsters: Cognitive Approaches To The Monstrous -- 29. Monsters Of The Inner World: Psychoanalytic Approaches -- 30. Monsters And Disability: The Violence Of Interpreting Bodies In Aristotle And Homer -- Part Iv: The Reception Of Classical Monsters -- 31. Pearls From A Dark Cloud: Monsters In Persian Myth -- 32. Plinian Monsters In Old Norse Encyclopaedic Literature -- 33. Classical Monsters In Medieval Literature And Art -- 34. The Revival Of Classical Monsters In The Italian Renaissance -- 35. Classical Monsters In Latin American Cultures 36. Recasting Monsters In Postcolonial Art And Literature -- 37. Classical Monsters In Children's And Young Adult Literature -- 38. Ancient Monsters In Modern Speculative Fiction -- 39. Classical Monsters In Modern Popular Culture: A Case Study In Fan Fiction -- 40. Ancient Monsters In Modern Science -- Index Edited By Debbie Felton. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mi Available Via World Wide Web.