The Gentle, Jealous God

Simon Perris

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• Euripides' Bacchae is the magnum opus of the ancient world's most popular dramatist and the most modern, perhaps postmodern, of Greek tragedies. Twent... Lees meer

Classics in Extremis

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• Classics in Extremis reimagines classical reception. Its contributors explore some of the most remarkable, hard-fought and unsettling claims ever made... Lees meer

Once and Future Antiquities in Science Fiction and Fantasy

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• In 15 all-new essays, this volume explores how science fiction and fantasy draw on materials from ancient Greece and Rome, 'displacing' them from thei... Lees meer

Performing Gods in Classical Antiquity and the Age of Shakespeare

Dustin W Dixon, John S Garrison

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• The gods have much to tell us about performance. When human actors portray deities onstage, such divine epiphanies reveal not only the complexities of... Lees meer

Gender, Creation Myths and Their Reception in Western Civilization

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• This volume offers an instructive comparative perspective on the Judaic, Christian, Greek and Roman myths about the creation of humans in relation to ... Lees meer

Ancient Magic and the Supernatural in the Modern Visual and Performing Arts

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• To what extent did mythological figures such as Circe and Medea influence the representation of the powerful 'oriental' enchantress in modern Western ... Lees meer

The Classics in South America

Germán Campos Muñoz

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• This volume examines the long and complex history of the Greco-Roman tradition in South America, arguing that the Classics have played a crucial, thou... Lees meer

Kinaesthesia and Classical Antiquity 1750-1820

Helen Slaney

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• This book argues that touch and movement played a significant role, long overlooked, in generating perceptions of ancient material culture in the late... Lees meer

The Gentle, Jealous God

Simon Perris

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• Euripides' Bacchae is the magnum opus of the ancient world's most popular dramatist and the most modern, perhaps postmodern, of Greek tragedies. Twent... Lees meer

Julius Caesar's Self-Created Image and Its Dramatic Afterlife

Miryana Dimitrova

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• The book explores the extent to which aspects of Julius Caesar's self-representation in his commentaries, constituent themes and characterization have... Lees meer

Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction Since 1989

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction since 1989 explores the diverse ways that contemporary world fiction has engaged with ancient Greek myth. Whether ... Lees meer

Reading Poetry, Writing Genre

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• This ground-breaking volume connects the situatedness of genre in English poetry with developments in classical scholarship, exploring how an emphasis... Lees meer

The Codex Fori Mussolini

Han Lamers, Bettina Reitz-Joosse

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• The year is 1932. In Rome, the Fascist leader Benito Mussolini unveils a giant obelisk of white marble, bearing the Latin inscription MVSSOLINI DVX. I... Lees meer

Once and Future Antiquities in Science Fiction and Fantasy

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• In 15 all-new essays, this volume explores how science fiction and fantasy draw on materials from ancient Greece and Rome, 'displacing' them from thei... Lees meer

Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War

Naoise Mac Sweeney

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• In this new volume, Jan Haywood and Naoíse Mac Sweeney investigate the position of Homer's Iliad within the wider Trojan War tradition through a serie... Lees meer

The Codex Fori Mussolini

Han Lamers, Bettina Reitz-Joosse

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• The year is 1932. In Rome, the Fascist leader Benito Mussolini unveils a giant obelisk of white marble, bearing the Latin inscription MVSSOLINI DVX. I... Lees meer

Greek and Roman Classics in the British Struggle for Social Reform

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• Greek and Roman Classics in the British Struggle for Social Reform presents an original and carefully argued case for the importance of classical idea... Lees meer

Reading Poetry, Writing Genre

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• This ground-breaking volume connects the situatedness of genre in English poetry with developments in classical scholarship, exploring how an emphasis... Lees meer

Victorian Classical Burlesques

Laura Monros-Gaspar

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• The Victorian classical burlesque was a popular theatrical genre of the mid-19th century. It parodied ancient tragedies with music, melodrama, pastich... Lees meer

Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War

Jan Haywood, Naoise Mac Sweeney

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• In this new volume, Jan Haywood and Naoíse Mac Sweeney investigate the position of Homer's Iliad within the wider Trojan War tradition through a serie... Lees meer

Now and Rome

Ika Willis

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• Now and Rome is about the way that sovereign power regulates the movement of information and the movement of bodies through space and time. Through a ... Lees meer

Antipodean Antiquities

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the A... Lees meer

Frankenstein and Its Classics

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• Frankenstein and Its Classics is the first collection of scholarship dedicated to how Frankenstein and works inspired by it draw on ancient Greek and ... Lees meer

Hippocrates Now

Helen King

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
• We need to talk about Hippocrates. Current scholarship attributes none of the works of the 'Hippocratic corpus' to him, and the ancient biographical t... Lees meer