Lilah Grace Canevaro is Senior Lecturer in Greek in the Department of Classics at the University of Edinburgh. Her previous publications include Women of Substance in Homeric Epic: Objects, Gender, Agency (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Hesiod’s Works and Days: How to Teach Self-Sufficiency (Oxford University Press, 2015).

A brilliant reading of Theocritus that puts his poetry in conversation with new materialism, object-oriented ontology and material ecocriticism. Canevaro hears things in ancient pastoral that haven’t been heard before and she voices them wonderfully well. This is a thoughtful, thought-provoking and beautifully written book that everyone working on ancient poetry should read.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: Material Agency1. The Cup 2. The Woman 3. The Fisherman and the Rock4. The Plaited Trap5. Beyond the CupA Concluding Excursus: MarsdenBibliographyIndex

Lilah Grace Canevaro is Senior Lecturer in Greek in the Department of Classics at the University of Edinburgh. Her previous publications include Women of Substance in Homeric Epic: Objects, Gender, Agency (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Hesiod’s Works and Days: How to Teach Self-Sufficiency (Oxford University Press, 2015).

A brilliant reading of Theocritus that puts his poetry in conversation with new materialism, object-oriented ontology and material ecocriticism. Canevaro hears things in ancient pastoral that haven’t been heard before and she voices them wonderfully well. This is a thoughtful, thought-provoking and beautifully written book that everyone working on ancient poetry should read.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: Material Agency1. The Cup 2. The Woman 3. The Fisherman and the Rock4. The Plaited Trap5. Beyond the CupA Concluding Excursus: MarsdenBibliographyIndex

Lilah Grace Canevaro is Senior Lecturer in Greek in the Department of Classics at the University of Edinburgh. Her previous publications include Women of Substance in Homeric Epic: Objects, Gender, Agency (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Hesiod’s Works and Days: How to Teach Self-Sufficiency (Oxford University Press, 2015).

A brilliant reading of Theocritus that puts his poetry in conversation with new materialism, object-oriented ontology and material ecocriticism. Canevaro hears things in ancient pastoral that haven’t been heard before and she voices them wonderfully well. This is a thoughtful, thought-provoking and beautifully written book that everyone working on ancient poetry should read.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: Material Agency1. The Cup 2. The Woman 3. The Fisherman and the Rock4. The Plaited Trap5. Beyond the CupA Concluding Excursus: MarsdenBibliographyIndex