Thinking with Classical Matter

Miriam Leonard is Professor of Greek Literature and its Reception at University College London. Her research explores the intellectual history of classics in modern European thought from the eighteenth century to the present. She is author of several books including Athens in Paris: Ancient Greece and the Political in Post-War French Thought (OUP, 2005), Socrates and the Jews: Hellenism and Hebraism from Moses Mendelssohn to Sigmund Freud (University of Chicago Press, 2012), Tragic Modernities (Harvard University Press, 2015). Revolution: Modern Uprisings in Ancient Time is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press. She has curated two recent exhibitions at the Freud Museum in London.Tim Whitmarsh FBA is Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. A specialist in the literature, culture and religion of ancient Greece, he is the author of 10 books, including Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World (Knopf 2015) and Dirty Love: The Genealogy of the Ancient Greek Novel (Oxford University Press 2018), and over 100 academic articles. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Classical Dictionary (5th edition). He has contributed frequently to newspapers such as The Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of Books, as well as to BBC radio and TV.

• 1: Miriam Leonard: Introduction: Embodied Knowledge2: Lorraine Daston: Rigor and the Disciplines3: Marilyn Strathern: Ontological Remoteness: Frazer at Nemi4: Geoffrey Lloyd: The Contemporary Relevance of Greco-Roman Antiquity - Where Science is Concerned5: Daniel Boyarin: Prolegomena to Another Forced Retirement: Origen's 'Allegory' Revisited6: Jaś Elsner and Michael Squire: 'Speaking otherwise': Pictorial Allegory through a Philostratean Lens7: Tim Whitmarsh: The Body as Proof: A Cultural History of Classical Scars8: Mary Jacobus: Watching, Waiting, Wailing: Afterlives of the Oresteia9: Susanne Marchand: Trivial Pleasures: Classicizing Porcelains in the Age of the Libertines10: Peter de Bolla: A Post Card from Telos, Dated 327 BC: On Being Touched by a Work of Art11: Homi Bhabha: Epilogue