Classics, Love, Revolution

Andrea Capra is Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Durham and retains an affiliation with the University of Milan, where he worked for many years. He studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and held fellowships at Harvard and Princeton. He has published widely on Plato, Aristophanes, lyric poetry, the reception of ancient Greece, and the Greek novel. He enjoys writing for a general readership: his Italian translation of Aristophanes' Assemblywomen won the Monselice Prize for translation. His version of the play was staged at the ancient Theatre of Dionysos in Syracuse.Barbara Graziosi is Ewing Professor of Greek Literature and Chair of Classics, Princeton University. Before moving to the USA, she taught at the University of Durham, where she also served as Arts and Humanities Director of its IAS. She has published widely on early Greek poetry, fictional biography, and classical reception. Her first interdisciplinary research project, Living Poets: A New Approach to Ancient Poetry, was funded by the European Research Council; her second, Logion: Machine Learning for Greek Philology is supported by a Princeton University 'Magic Grant'. Her books have been translated into several languages; her essays have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books, and Il Manifesto. She regularly contributes to radio and television programmes.

• Preface List of Illustrations Introduction: Truth and Fakery 1: The Discovery 2: The Intervention Part I: Autobiography and Revolution 3: Luigi Settembrini, According to Himself 4: Luigi Settembrini, According to His Wife 5: Revolutionary Heroes and Italian Men Part II: Platonic Fictions 6: The Dialogue on Women 7: The Neoplatonists 8: How to Live and How to Read Part III: The Neoplatonists: English Translation and Notes 9: The Neoplatonists by Aristaeus of Megara Epilogue Bibliography Index