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Translations of Greek Tragedy in the Work of Ezra Pound
Turning the tables on the misconception that Ezra Pound knew little Greek, this volume looks at his work translating Greek tragedy and considers how influential this was for his …
Antipodean Antiquities
Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical …
Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War
In this new volume, Jan Haywood and Naoíse Mac Sweeney investigate the position of Homer’s Iliad within the wider Trojan War tradition through a series of detailed case studies. …
Faulkner’s Reception of Apuleius’ The Golden Ass in The Reivers
Faulkner’s final novel, The Reivers, has been gently dismissed by scholars and critics as no more than its subtitle claims, A Reminiscence. Although the new millennium has seen a …
The Thucydidean Turn
The emergence of Thucydides as an influential political thinker in the first half of the 20th century has been astonishingly neglected by modern scholars. This volume examines how, …
Truth in the Late Foucault
The first full treatment of truth as a core philosophical concept in the late Foucault, this volume examines his work on the ancient world and the early church. Each essay features …
Alexander the Great in the Early Christian Tradition
What has Alexander the Great to do with Jesus Christ? Or the legendary king’s conquest of the Persian Empire (335–23 BCE) to do with the prophecies of the Old Testament? In …
Gender, Creation Myths and their Reception in Western Civilization
This volume offers an instructive comparative perspective on the Judaic, Christian, Greek and Roman myths about the creation of humans in relation to each other, as well as a broad …
Hippocrates Now
This book is available as open access through the Knowledge Unlatched programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. We need to talk about Hippocrates. Current …
The Gentle, Jealous God
Euripides’ Bacchae is the magnum opus of the ancient world’s most popular dramatist and the most modern, perhaps postmodern, of Greek tragedies. Twentieth-century poets and …
Virgil’s Map
Virgil’s Georgics depicts the world and its peoples in great detail, but this geographical interest has received little detailed scholarly attention. Hundreds of years later, …
Victorian Epic Burlesques
This anthology presents annotated scripts of four major burlesques by key playwrights: Melodrama Mad! or, the Siege of Troy by Thomas John Dibdin (1819); Telemachus; or, the Island …