Politics of Form in Greek Literature

Phiroze Vasunia is Professor of Greek at University College London, UK. He is author of The Classics and Colonial India (2013) and co-editor (with D. L. Selden) of The Oxford Handbook of the Literatures of the Roman Empire (in progress) and (with Susan A. Stephens) of Classics and National Cultures (2010). He is series editor of Bloomsbury's Ancients and Moderns series.

Quite an achievement ... opens the floor to further discussions (and practices), to be developed in the following years inside and outside academy.

• Acknowledgements List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsIntroductionPhiroze Vasunia, University College London, UKPart I: Verse (and Some Prose)1. Disagreement, Complexity and the Politics of Homer’s Verbal FormAhuvia Kahane, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland2. Sophocles’ Antigone, Feminism’s Hegel and the Politics of FormSimon Goldhill, University of Cambridge, UK3. The Aporia of Action and the Agency of Form in Euripides’ Iphigeneia in AulisVictoria Wohl, University of Toronto, Canada4. Forms of SurvivalSusan Stephens, Stanford University, USA Part II: Prose (and Some Verse)5. The Politics of Informed Form: Plato and Walter BenjaminAndrew Benjamin, Monash University, Australia6. Plato’s Seventh Letter, or How to Fashion a Subject of ResistancePaul Allen Miller, University of South Carolina, USA7. Body Politics in Aristotle's Poetics and RhetoricNancy Worman, Barnard College/Columbia University, USA8. Aristotle’s Lost Works for the Public and the Politics of Academic FormEdith Hall, King’s College London, UK9. Politics and Form in XenophonRosie Harman, University College London, UKPart III: Word and Image10. The Politics of Form in Eighteenth-Century Visions of Ancient GreeceDaniel Orrells, King’s College London, UK11. Ekphrasis, Leo Spitzer and the Politics of FormRuth Webb, Université Lille, FranceNotesBibliographyIndex