Peter I. Barta is a lecturer in Russian Studies at the University of Surrey in England. David H. J. Larmour is an associate professor and chair of Classics at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. Paul Allen Miller is an assistant professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Texas Tech.

'By focusing on the relationship between Russian literature and classical antiquity, this work admirably fulfills the stated purpose. Arranged chronologically, this volume examines significant junctures in Russian literary history.'

• Introduction to the series. Introduction. 1. Thunder Imagery and the Turn Against Horace in Derzhavin's ''Evgeniyu, Zhizn' Zvanskaya'' (1807) by Charles Byrd 2. Mediating the Distance: Prophecy and Alterity in Greek Tragedy and Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' by Naomi Rood 3. The Source of Andrei Bely's Literary Mifotvorchestvo: 'The Case of the Ableukhovs' by Mary Jo White 4. Hellenism, Culture and Christianity: The Case of Vyacheslav Ivanov and his ''Palinode'' of 1927 by Pamela Davidson 5. Soviet Russia Through the Lens of Classical Antiquity: An Analysis of Greco-Roman Allusions and Thought in the Oeuvre of Vasilii Grossman by Frank Ellis 6. Classical Motifs in the Poetry of Alexksandr Kushner by David N. Wells 7. The Wandering Greek: Images of Antiquity in Joseph Brodsky by Dan Ungurianu.

Peter I. Barta is a lecturer in Russian Studies at the University of Surrey in England. David H. J. Larmour is an associate professor and chair of Classics at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. Paul Allen Miller is an assistant professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Texas Tech.

'By focusing on the relationship between Russian literature and classical antiquity, this work admirably fulfills the stated purpose. Arranged chronologically, this volume examines significant junctures in Russian literary history.'

• Introduction to the series. Introduction. 1. Thunder Imagery and the Turn Against Horace in Derzhavin's ''Evgeniyu, Zhizn' Zvanskaya'' (1807) by Charles Byrd 2. Mediating the Distance: Prophecy and Alterity in Greek Tragedy and Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' by Naomi Rood 3. The Source of Andrei Bely's Literary Mifotvorchestvo: 'The Case of the Ableukhovs' by Mary Jo White 4. Hellenism, Culture and Christianity: The Case of Vyacheslav Ivanov and his ''Palinode'' of 1927 by Pamela Davidson 5. Soviet Russia Through the Lens of Classical Antiquity: An Analysis of Greco-Roman Allusions and Thought in the Oeuvre of Vasilii Grossman by Frank Ellis 6. Classical Motifs in the Poetry of Alexksandr Kushner by David N. Wells 7. The Wandering Greek: Images of Antiquity in Joseph Brodsky by Dan Ungurianu.