Tim Rood is Fellow and Tutor in Classics at St Hugh's College, University of Oxford, UK. He is the author of The Sea! The Sea! The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination (Bloomsbury, 2004) and American Anabasis (Bloomsbury, 2010). Carol Atack is a Junior Research Fellow at St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford, UK. She is the author of The Discourse of Kingship in Classical Greece (2019) and is an Associate Editor of Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought.Tom Phillips is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Manchester, UK. His publications include Pindar’s Library: Performance Poetry and Material Texts (2016), and articles on Greek and Latin lyric poetry.

A riveting, unapologetically intelligent read … [The authors] display a thrilling sense of clarity, polymathy and rather exciting erudition, the interdisciplinarity of any true intellectual enterprise, all of which they share with true scholarly humility.

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceList of AbbreviationsPrelude: Look to the End1. Inventing Anachronism2. Anachronistic Histories3. Anachronism and PhilologyInterlude 1: Dido versus Virgil4. Anachronism and Chronology5. Anachronistic Survivals6. Anachronism and ExemplarityInterlude 2: Ariadne on Naxos7. Anachronism Now: Multitemporal Moments Interlude 3: Aeneas in the Underworld8. Anachronistic DialoguesEpilogue: Crowning the VictorsNotesReferencesIndex

Tim Rood is Fellow and Tutor in Classics at St Hugh's College, University of Oxford, UK. He is the author of The Sea! The Sea! The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination (Bloomsbury, 2004) and American Anabasis (Bloomsbury, 2010). Carol Atack is a Junior Research Fellow at St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford, UK. She is the author of The Discourse of Kingship in Classical Greece (2019) and is an Associate Editor of Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought.Tom Phillips is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Manchester, UK. His publications include Pindar’s Library: Performance Poetry and Material Texts (2016), and articles on Greek and Latin lyric poetry.

A riveting, unapologetically intelligent read … [The authors] display a thrilling sense of clarity, polymathy and rather exciting erudition, the interdisciplinarity of any true intellectual enterprise, all of which they share with true scholarly humility.

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceList of AbbreviationsPrelude: Look to the End1. Inventing Anachronism2. Anachronistic Histories3. Anachronism and PhilologyInterlude 1: Dido versus Virgil4. Anachronism and Chronology5. Anachronistic Survivals6. Anachronism and ExemplarityInterlude 2: Ariadne on Naxos7. Anachronism Now: Multitemporal Moments Interlude 3: Aeneas in the Underworld8. Anachronistic DialoguesEpilogue: Crowning the VictorsNotesReferencesIndex

Tim Rood is Fellow and Tutor in Classics at St Hugh's College, University of Oxford, UK. He is the author of The Sea! The Sea! The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination (Bloomsbury, 2004) and American Anabasis (Bloomsbury, 2010). Carol Atack is a Junior Research Fellow at St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford, UK. She is the author of The Discourse of Kingship in Classical Greece (2019) and is an Associate Editor of Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought.Tom Phillips is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Manchester, UK. His publications include Pindar’s Library: Performance Poetry and Material Texts (2016), and articles on Greek and Latin lyric poetry.

A riveting, unapologetically intelligent read … [The authors] display a thrilling sense of clarity, polymathy and rather exciting erudition, the interdisciplinarity of any true intellectual enterprise, all of which they share with true scholarly humility.

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceList of AbbreviationsPrelude: Look to the End1. Inventing Anachronism2. Anachronistic Histories3. Anachronism and PhilologyInterlude 1: Dido versus Virgil4. Anachronism and Chronology5. Anachronistic Survivals6. Anachronism and ExemplarityInterlude 2: Ariadne on Naxos7. Anachronism Now: Multitemporal Moments Interlude 3: Aeneas in the Underworld8. Anachronistic DialoguesEpilogue: Crowning the VictorsNotesReferencesIndex