Classics in the Modern World

Lorna Hardwick is Emeritus Professor of Classical Studies at the Open University. She has published books and articles on Greek drama and on Greek and Latin poetry and historiography and its reception in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is editor of the Classical Receptions Journal and co-series editor of the Classical Presences series (OUP).Stephen Harrison is Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Professor of Latin Literature in the University of Oxford. He is author of books on Vergil, Horace, and Apuleius and of a range of pieces on classical reception in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

A short review can hardly do justice to the efforts to build bridges between our discipline and the concerns of modern society relevant to the life of the students whom most of us teach ... One hopes that this volume is only a start of the larger diversification of the classical tradition and reception and that the future collections of such kind will broaden its geographic scope and include more countries beyond Western Europe and its most notable influences.

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; INTRODUCTION; SECTION 1: CONTROVERSIES AND DEBATES; SECTION 2: AREA STUDY THE UNITED STATES; SECTION 3: EDUCATION: IDEOLOGIES, PRACTICES AND CONTEXTS; SECTION 4: GREEK DRAMA IN MODERN PERFORMANCE: DEMOCRACY, CULTURE AND TRADITION; SECTION 5: CREATIVITY FEMALE AGENCY IN FICTION ON POETRY; SECTION 6: THE PUBLIC IMAGINATION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX