Myth Lit Webinar
🗓️ April 5, 2025
đź•™ 10:00 am Pacific Time
đź“™ The book: Vox Eurydice: The Ascent of the Female Rescuer in German-Language Opera, by Margaret Ann Mendenhall
Vox Eurydice: The Ascent of the Female Rescuer in German-Language Opera is a mythological and depth psychological analysis written from a feminist perspective, on the emergence of the theme of rescue stories, and specifically plots where a female heroine saves a male character, which arose in German-language opera during the roughly one hundred years that spanned the lifetimes of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Richard Wagner.
Join us on April 5 to discuss Vox Eurydice with Maggie!
Myth Lit webinars create space for the myth community to read together, write together, and celebrate today’s mythological literature.
“Vox Eurydice is a stunning work of revisionary feminism in re-imagining the major works of opera that narrate the archetypal myth. Orpheus fails to rescue his dead wife Eurydice so unlocking multiple stories of masculine dominance. As opera, these are now explored, contextualized, critiqued and reframed by this powerfully persuasive book. At last, Eurydice and her sisters have their voice.”
– Susan Rowland
Buy the book
About MAGGIE
Margaret Ann Mendenhall, PhD resides in Long Beach, California and is a graduate of Pacifica Graduate Institute’s Mythological Studies Program. Her blog, My Daily Soul Trek, analyzes Star Trek episodes and films chronologically from a depth psychological perspective. Additionally, she has written, performed, and produced two myth-based one-woman shows, and produced and hosted the public access television series Myth Is All Around Us. Margaret is currently at work on her second dissertation which uses Star Trek to explore depth psychology and autism.