The Nation and its Ruins

Yannis (Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Southampto

• Hardcover | Classical Presences
• An innovative, extensively illustrated study examining how classical antiquities and archaeology contributed to the production of the modern Greek nat... Lees meer

African Athena

• Hardcover | Classical Presences
• African Athena examines the history of intellectuals and literary writers who contested the white, dominant Euro-American constructions of the classic... Lees meer

A Cockney Catullus

Henry (Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, AHRC Post-doctor

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• A Cockney Catullus traces the reception history of the Roman poet Catullus in Romantic-era Britain, identifying the influence of his poetry in the wor... Lees meer

Placing Modern Greece

Constanze Guthenke

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• This volume is an investigation of literary representations of Greece in the period of Romanticism, encompassing the time in the 1820s when Greece bec... Lees meer

Theatre of the Condemned

Gonda (Associate Professor of Classics, University of Florida) V

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• A study of the productions of classical tragedies staged by political prisoners of the Greek Civil War, focusing on the interpretation the detainees g... Lees meer

Conversing with Antiquity

David (Emeritus Professor of English Literature, Emeritus Profes

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• A selection of previously published articles, with a new Introduction, exploring the interaction between English poets of the seventeenth and eighteen... Lees meer

Travel and Home in Homer's Odyssey and Contemporary Literature

Carol Dougherty

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• Travel and Home in Homer's Odyssey and Contemporary Literature brings Homer's Odyssey together with contemporary literary texts ranging from Rebecca W... Lees meer

Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century

Thomas Matthew Vozar

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• No author in the English canon seems more deserving of the epithet sublime than John Milton. Yet Milton's sublimity has long been dismissed as an inve... Lees meer

Divers Greek Trag Cont Us Stage Clpr C

Powers

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• In its long history of performance and reception, Greek drama has been interpreted and adapted in ever-changing ways to share in the preoccupations an... Lees meer

Louis MacNeice: The Classical Radio Plays

Amanda (Research Associate, University of Westminster, and part-, S. J. (Professor of Latin Literature, University of Oxford, and

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• This volume presents 11 radio scripts written and produced by Louis MacNeice over the span of his career at the BBC. This selection, all but one of wh... Lees meer

Women Classical Scholars

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• Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly is the first written history of the pioneering women bo... Lees meer

Remembering Parthenope

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• This edited collection focuses on how the ancient past of the city of Naples has been invented, shaped, transmitted, and received in literature, art, ... Lees meer

Between Jerusalem and Athens

Nurit Yaari

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• How does a theatrical tradition emerge in the fields of dramatic writing and artistic performance? How can a culture in which theatre played no part i... Lees meer

Dynamic Reading

Brooke (Assistant Professor of Classics, Assistant Professor of, W. H. (Assistant Professor of Classics, Assistant Professor of C

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• Dynamic Reading examines the reception history of Epicurean philosophy through a series of eleven case studies, which range chronologically from the l... Lees meer

Classics in Britain

Christopher (Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Class

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• This unique volume summarizes and reflects the work of a leading voice in the history of Classics in Britain, bringing together both previously publis... Lees meer

Lucretius and the Early Modern

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• The rediscovery in the fifteenth century of Lucretius' De rerum natura was a challenge to received ideas. The poem offered a vision of the creation of... Lees meer

Childhood and the Classics

Sheila Murnaghan, Deborah H Roberts

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• The dissemination of classical material to children has long been a major form of popularization with far-reaching effects, although until very recent... Lees meer

Roman Receptions of Sappho

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• Sappho, a towering figure in Western culture, is an exemplary case in the history of classical receptions. There are three prominent reasons for this.... Lees meer

Victorian Women Writers and the Classics

Isobel Hurst

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• Isobel Hurst examines the role of women writers in the Victorian reception of ancient Greece and Rome, showing that they had a greater imaginative eng... Lees meer

Classical Traditions in Science Fiction

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• Classical Traditions in Science Fiction is the first collection dedicated to the rich study of science fiction's classical heritage, offering a much-n... Lees meer

The Senecan Aesthetic

Helen Slaney

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• Alongside the works of the better-known classical Greek dramatists, the tragedies of Lucius Annaeus Seneca have exerted a profound influence over the ... Lees meer

E. E. Cummings' Modernism and the Classics

J Alison Rosenblitt

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• This volume is a major, groundbreaking study of the modernist E. E. Cummings' engagement with the classics. With his experimental form and syntax, his... Lees meer

Living Classics

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• A collection of essays exploring the extensive use of Latin and Greek literary texts in a range of recent poetry written in English. It contains both ... Lees meer

Fragmentary Modernism

Nora Goldschmidt

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• Fragmentary Modernism begins from a simple observation: what has been called the 'apotheosis of the fragment' in the art and writing of modernism emer... Lees meer