The essay concentrates on three films made by famous film director, a major Philhellene of the 20th century, Jules Dassin (1911–2008), i.e. the comedy Never on Sunday (Ποτέ Την Κυριακή) from 1960 that became most popular all over the world, also thanks to the famous song “Never on Sunday” (Τα παιδιά του Πειραιά), written by Manos Hatzidakis; Phaedra in 1962, an adaptation of Euripides’ Hippolytus (based on a melodrama written by Margarita Lymberaki), and A Dream of Passion (Κραυγή Γυναικών) in 1978, the drama of an actress playing Medea and visiting a jailed mother who had murdered her own children.
I emphasize the need to interpret the world view expressed in the Greek mythology. I think that C. G. Jung’s theory of archetypes can by used to interpret it. I show some similarities between Greek gods and archetypes of Jung. There is also a similarity between the goal of human development assumed in the mythological wisdom and the goal of the psychological process of individuation in the analytical psychology. These similarities let us understand some aspects of Greek myths although it must be admitted this understanding is not exhaustive or the only one possible.
The article aims to trace the reception of Antigone on the basis of femi- nist and gender criticism. It turns out that the same categories noticed by individual researchers are assessed and valorized differently, accordingly to the feminist trend they identify with. The author decides, therefore, to reverse the optics and evaluate the discourse through the prism of the method of analysis and interpretation of the mythological heroine.
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