Lorna Hardwick is Professor of Classical Studies and Director of the Reception of Classical Texts Research Project at the Open University. Her publications on Greek cultural history and its reception in modern theatre and literature include Translating Words, Translating Cultures (2000), New Surveys in the Classics: Reception Studies (2003) and (co-edited with Carol Gillespie) Classics in Post-colonial Worlds (2007).Christopher Stray is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Wales, Swansea. He is the author of Classics Transformed: Schools Universities, and Society in England 1830-1960 (1998), and editor of The Owl of Minerva (2005), Classical Books (2007) and Remaking the Classics (2007).

"This variegated and sizeable volume has for me been stimulating and informative, a pleasure to read for review . . . The ‘future paths' he proposes seem to me to amount to different configurations of intellectual history, so no surprises there; but his clear statement of the opportunities offered by reception studies in the classroom is admirable, and his call for ‘a new kind of classicist-academic: the engaged public intellectual' is visionary. " (Translation and Literature, 2011)

• List of Figures ixNotes on Contributors xiAcknowledgements xviiiIntroduction: Making Connections 1Lorna Hardwick and Christopher StrayPart I Reception within Antiquity and Beyond 111 Reception and Tradition 13Felix Budelmann and Johannes Haubold2 The Ancient Reception of Homer 26Barbara Graziosi3 Poets on Socrates’ Stage: Plato’s Reception of Dramatic Art 38Chris Emlyn-Jones4 ‘Respectable in Its Ruins’: Achaemenid Persia, Ancient and Modern 50Thomas Harrison5 Basil of Caesarea and Greek Tragedy 62Ruth WebbPart II Transmission, Acculturation and Critique 736 ‘Our Debt to Greece and Rome’: Canon, Class and Ideology 75Seth L. Schein7 Gladstone and the Classics 86David W. Bebbington8 Between Colonialism and Independence: Eric Williams and the Uses of Classics in Trinidad in the 1950s and 1960s 98Emily Greenwood9 Virgilian Contexts 113Stephen HarrisonPart III Translation 12710 Colonization, Closure or Creative Dialogue?: The Case of Pope’s Iliad 129David Hopkins11 Translation at the Intersection of Traditions: The Arab Reception of the Classics 141Ahmed Etman12 ‘Enough Give in It’: Translating the Classical Play 153J. Michael Walton13 Lost in Translation? The Problem of (Aristophanic) Humour 168James RobsonPart IV Theory and Practice 18314 ‘Making It New’: André Gide’s Rewriting of Myth 185Cashman Kerr Prince15 ‘What Difference Was Made?’: Feminist Models of Reception 195Vanda Zajko16 History and Theory: Moses and Monotheism and the Historiography of the Repressed 207Miriam Leonard17 Performance Reception: Canonization and Periodization 219Pantelis MichelakisPart V Performing Arts 22918 Iphigénie en Tauride and Elektra: ‘Apolline’ and ‘Dionysiac’ Receptions of Greek Tragedy into Opera 231Michael Ewans19 Performance Histories 247Fiona Macintosh20 ‘Body and Mask’ in Performances of Classical Drama on the Modern Stage 259Angeliki Varakis21 The Nomadic Theatre of the Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio: A Case of Postdramatic Reworking of (the Classical) Tragedy 274Freddy Decreus22 Aristophanes between Israelis and Palestinians 287Nurit YaariPart VI Film 30123 Working with Film: Theories and Methodologies 303Joanna Paul24 The Odyssey from Homer to NBC: The Cyclops and the Gods 315Hanna M. Roisman25 A New Hope: Film as a Teaching Tool for the Classics 327Marianne McDonaldPart VII Cultural Politics 34326 Possessing Rome: The Politics of Ruins in Roma capitale 345Catharine Edwards27 ‘You unleash the tempest of tragedy’: The 1903 Athenian Production of Aeschylus’ Oresteia 360Gonda Van Steen28 Multicultural Reception: Greek Drama in South Africa in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-first Centuries 373Betine van Zyl Smit29 Putting the Class into Classical Reception 386Edith HallPart VIII Changing Contexts 39930 Reframing the Homeric: Images of the Odyssey in the Art of Derek Walcott and Romare Bearden 401Gregson Davis31 ‘Plato’s Stepchildren’: SF and the Classics 415Sarah Annes Brown32 Aristotle’s Ethics, Old and New 428Rosalind Hursthouse33 Classicizing Bodies in the Male Photographic Tradition 440Bryan E. Burns34 Homer in British World War One Poetry 452Elizabeth VandiverPart IX Reflection and Critique 46735 Reception Studies: Future Prospects 469James I. PorterBibliography 482Index 533