Patrick Cheney is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University. He has been a Visiting Research Fellow at Merton College, University of Oxford, and a recipient of the Faculty Scholar Medal at Pennsylvania State University for research in the humanities. He is General Editor of the Oxford History of Poetry in English, and a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His publications have focused on the reception of classical ideas of authorship.Philip Hardie is a Senior Research Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Honorary Professor of Latin at the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and was Corpus Christi Professor of the Latin Language and Literature at the University of Oxford (2002-6). He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Thessaloniki, and was the recipient of the Premio Internazionale Virgilio (Mantova) in 2012. He has published extensively both on ancient Latin literature and on its reception.

Review from previous edition This book bursts with a wealth of case studies and microhistories that will no doubt assist witchcraft scholars ... Overall, this is a valuable and impressive contribution to current scholarship.

• List of Contributors 1: Patrick Cheney and Philip Hardie: Introduction Part I: Institutions and Contexts 2: Peter Mack: The Classics in Humanism, Education, and Scholarship 3: Stuart Gillespie: The Availability of the Classics: Readers, Writers, Translation, Performance 4: Peter Mack: Classical Rhetoric in English 5: Gavin Alexander: The Classics in Literary Criticism 6: Mark Vessey: Classics and Christianity 7: Jane Stevenson: Women Writers and the Classics 8: Cultural Contexts Curtis Perry: a) Politics and Nationalism Cora Fox: b) Sexuality and Desire Patrick Cheney: c) Literary Careers Philip Hardie: d) Fame and Immortality Part II: Genres 9: Helen Cooper: Pastoral and Georgic 10: Philip Hardie: Epic Poetry 11: Lynn Enterline: Elizabethan Minor Epic 12: William Fitzgerald: The Epistolary Tradition 13: Helen Moore: Prose Romance 14: Roland Greene: Elegy, Hymn, Epithalamium, Ode: Some Renaissance Reinterpretations 15: Susanna Braund: Complaint, Epigram, and Satire 16: Gordone Braden: Tragedy 17: Bruce Smith: Comedy 18: Tanya Pollard: Tragicomedy 19: Bart Vanes: Historiography and Biography 20: Reid Barbour and Claire Preston: Discursive and Speculative Writing Part III: Authors 21: Jessica Wolfe: Homer 22: Elizabeth Jane Bellamy: Plato 23: Maggie Kilgour: Virgil and Ovid 24: Victoria Moul (with a contribution by Charles Martindale): Horace 25: Richard McCabe: Spenser 26: Charles Martindale: Marlowe 27: Colin Burrow: Shakespeare 28: Sean Keilen: Jonson 29: Thomas Luxon: Early Milton Craig Kallendorf: Classical Reception in English Literature, 1558-1660: An Annotated Bibliography Index

Patrick Cheney is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University. He has been a Visiting Research Fellow at Merton College, University of Oxford, and a recipient of the Faculty Scholar Medal at Pennsylvania State University for research in the humanities. He is General Editor of the Oxford History of Poetry in English, and a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His publications have focused on the reception of classical ideas of authorship.Philip Hardie is a Senior Research Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Honorary Professor of Latin at the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and was Corpus Christi Professor of the Latin Language and Literature at the University of Oxford (2002-6). He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Thessaloniki, and was the recipient of the Premio Internazionale Virgilio (Mantova) in 2012. He has published extensively both on ancient Latin literature and on its reception.

Review from previous edition This book bursts with a wealth of case studies and microhistories that will no doubt assist witchcraft scholars ... Overall, this is a valuable and impressive contribution to current scholarship.

• List of Contributors 1: Patrick Cheney and Philip Hardie: Introduction Part I: Institutions and Contexts 2: Peter Mack: The Classics in Humanism, Education, and Scholarship 3: Stuart Gillespie: The Availability of the Classics: Readers, Writers, Translation, Performance 4: Peter Mack: Classical Rhetoric in English 5: Gavin Alexander: The Classics in Literary Criticism 6: Mark Vessey: Classics and Christianity 7: Jane Stevenson: Women Writers and the Classics 8: Cultural Contexts Curtis Perry: a) Politics and Nationalism Cora Fox: b) Sexuality and Desire Patrick Cheney: c) Literary Careers Philip Hardie: d) Fame and Immortality Part II: Genres 9: Helen Cooper: Pastoral and Georgic 10: Philip Hardie: Epic Poetry 11: Lynn Enterline: Elizabethan Minor Epic 12: William Fitzgerald: The Epistolary Tradition 13: Helen Moore: Prose Romance 14: Roland Greene: Elegy, Hymn, Epithalamium, Ode: Some Renaissance Reinterpretations 15: Susanna Braund: Complaint, Epigram, and Satire 16: Gordone Braden: Tragedy 17: Bruce Smith: Comedy 18: Tanya Pollard: Tragicomedy 19: Bart Vanes: Historiography and Biography 20: Reid Barbour and Claire Preston: Discursive and Speculative Writing Part III: Authors 21: Jessica Wolfe: Homer 22: Elizabeth Jane Bellamy: Plato 23: Maggie Kilgour: Virgil and Ovid 24: Victoria Moul (with a contribution by Charles Martindale): Horace 25: Richard McCabe: Spenser 26: Charles Martindale: Marlowe 27: Colin Burrow: Shakespeare 28: Sean Keilen: Jonson 29: Thomas Luxon: Early Milton Craig Kallendorf: Classical Reception in English Literature, 1558-1660: An Annotated Bibliography Index

Patrick Cheney is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University. He has been a Visiting Research Fellow at Merton College, University of Oxford, and a recipient of the Faculty Scholar Medal at Pennsylvania State University for research in the humanities. He is General Editor of the Oxford History of Poetry in English, and a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His publications have focused on the reception of classical ideas of authorship.Philip Hardie is a Senior Research Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Honorary Professor of Latin at the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and was Corpus Christi Professor of the Latin Language and Literature at the University of Oxford (2002-6). He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Thessaloniki, and was the recipient of the Premio Internazionale Virgilio (Mantova) in 2012. He has published extensively both on ancient Latin literature and on its reception.

Review from previous edition This book bursts with a wealth of case studies and microhistories that will no doubt assist witchcraft scholars ... Overall, this is a valuable and impressive contribution to current scholarship.

• List of Contributors 1: Patrick Cheney and Philip Hardie: Introduction Part I: Institutions and Contexts 2: Peter Mack: The Classics in Humanism, Education, and Scholarship 3: Stuart Gillespie: The Availability of the Classics: Readers, Writers, Translation, Performance 4: Peter Mack: Classical Rhetoric in English 5: Gavin Alexander: The Classics in Literary Criticism 6: Mark Vessey: Classics and Christianity 7: Jane Stevenson: Women Writers and the Classics 8: Cultural Contexts Curtis Perry: a) Politics and Nationalism Cora Fox: b) Sexuality and Desire Patrick Cheney: c) Literary Careers Philip Hardie: d) Fame and Immortality Part II: Genres 9: Helen Cooper: Pastoral and Georgic 10: Philip Hardie: Epic Poetry 11: Lynn Enterline: Elizabethan Minor Epic 12: William Fitzgerald: The Epistolary Tradition 13: Helen Moore: Prose Romance 14: Roland Greene: Elegy, Hymn, Epithalamium, Ode: Some Renaissance Reinterpretations 15: Susanna Braund: Complaint, Epigram, and Satire 16: Gordone Braden: Tragedy 17: Bruce Smith: Comedy 18: Tanya Pollard: Tragicomedy 19: Bart Vanes: Historiography and Biography 20: Reid Barbour and Claire Preston: Discursive and Speculative Writing Part III: Authors 21: Jessica Wolfe: Homer 22: Elizabeth Jane Bellamy: Plato 23: Maggie Kilgour: Virgil and Ovid 24: Victoria Moul (with a contribution by Charles Martindale): Horace 25: Richard McCabe: Spenser 26: Charles Martindale: Marlowe 27: Colin Burrow: Shakespeare 28: Sean Keilen: Jonson 29: Thomas Luxon: Early Milton Craig Kallendorf: Classical Reception in English Literature, 1558-1660: An Annotated Bibliography Index