Owen Hodkinson is Associate Professor of Greek and Roman Cultures at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Authority and Tradition in Philostratus' Heroikos (2011) and of Metafiction in Classical Literature: The Invention of Self-Conscious Fiction (2017, forthcoming). Helen Lovatt is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Nottingham. Her books include Statius and Epic Games: Sport, Politics and Poetics in the Thebaid (2005), The Epic Gaze: Vision, Gender and Narrative in Ancient Epic (2013) and In Search of the Argonauts: The Remarkable History of Jason and the Golden Fleece (I.B.Tauris, forthcoming 2018).

Innovative and instructive, this excellent collection includes contributions from an author of more than thirty books for young readers and others ... [and] several distinguished classicists ... this book is imaginatively conceived and edited with skill ... specialists in the reception of classical antiquity or in children's literature will find the collection worthwhile.

Owen Hodkinson is Associate Professor of Greek and Roman Cultures at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Authority and Tradition in Philostratus' Heroikos (2011) and of Metafiction in Classical Literature: The Invention of Self-Conscious Fiction (2017, forthcoming). Helen Lovatt is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Nottingham. Her books include Statius and Epic Games: Sport, Politics and Poetics in the Thebaid (2005), The Epic Gaze: Vision, Gender and Narrative in Ancient Epic (2013) and In Search of the Argonauts: The Remarkable History of Jason and the Golden Fleece (I.B.Tauris, forthcoming 2018).

Innovative and instructive, this excellent collection includes contributions from an author of more than thirty books for young readers and others ... [and] several distinguished classicists ... this book is imaginatively conceived and edited with skill ... specialists in the reception of classical antiquity or in children's literature will find the collection worthwhile.

Owen Hodkinson is Associate Professor of Greek and Roman Cultures at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Authority and Tradition in Philostratus' Heroikos (2011) and of Metafiction in Classical Literature: The Invention of Self-Conscious Fiction (2017, forthcoming). Helen Lovatt is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Nottingham. Her books include Statius and Epic Games: Sport, Politics and Poetics in the Thebaid (2005), The Epic Gaze: Vision, Gender and Narrative in Ancient Epic (2013) and In Search of the Argonauts: The Remarkable History of Jason and the Golden Fleece (I.B.Tauris, forthcoming 2018).

Innovative and instructive, this excellent collection includes contributions from an author of more than thirty books for young readers and others ... [and] several distinguished classicists ... this book is imaginatively conceived and edited with skill ... specialists in the reception of classical antiquity or in children's literature will find the collection worthwhile.