Wiley Blackwell Handbooks to Classical Reception

This series offers comprehensive, thought‐provoking surveys of the reception of major classical authors and themes. These Handbooks will consist of approximately 30 newly written essays by leading scholars in the field, and will map the ways in which the ancient world has been viewed and adapted up to the present day. Essays are meant to be engaging, accessible, and scholarly pieces of writing, and are designed for an audience of advanced undergraduates, graduates, and scholars.

Published:

A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid
John Miller and Carole E. Newlands

A Handbook to the Reception of Thucydides
Christine Lee and Neville Morley

A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama
Betine van Zyl Smit

Forthcoming:

A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology
Vanda Zajko and Helena Hoyle

A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe
Zara Martirosova Torlone, Dana LaCourse Munteanu, and Dorota Dutsch

Rosemary Barrow is a Reader in Classical Art & Reception at the University of Roehampton. Besides articles on art history and the classical tradition, she has published two monographs on Victorian classical reception – Lawrence Alma‐Tadema (2001) and The Use of Classical Art & Literature by Victorian Painters (2007) – and a co‐authored book with Michael Silk and Ingo Gildenhard entitled The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature, Thought (2013).

John Channing Briggs is the author of Francis Bacon and the Rhetoric of Nature, a chapter on Bacon’s science and religion in the Cambridge Companion to Francis Bacon, and a close reading of Lincoln’s speeches (Lincoln’s Speeches Reconsidered). Educated at Harvard and the University of Chicago, he is Professor of English and McSweeny Chair of Rhetoric and Excellence in Teaching at the University of California, Riverside.

George Burrows is Principal Lecturer for Performing Arts at the University of Portsmouth, where he also leads the Centre for Performing Arts. He is co‐founder of the Song, Stage and Screen international musical theater conference and a founding editor of the journal, Studies in Musical Theatre. His research most often considers the social functions and meanings of music and musical theater in the interwar period but he has also published work on the composers Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) and Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924). He has directed the University of Portsmouth Choirs for more than a decade and his book, Andy Kirk and his Clouds of Joy, is forthcoming.

James G. Clark is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He has written widely on aspects of medieval clerical culture and has a particular interest in the reception of the Latin classics among learned clerks in the later Middle Ages. Recent publications include Ovid in the Middle Ages (2011).

Peter Davies is Professor of Modern German Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Publications include Divided Loyalties: East German Writers and the Politics of German Division (2000); with Stephen Parker and Matthew Philpotts, The Modern Restoration: Re‐Reading German Literary History, 1930–1960 (2004); Myth, Matriarchy and Modernity: Johann Jakob Bachofen in German Culture, 1860–1945 (2010). He has also written on topics ranging from East German literature, myth and literature, National Socialism and Holocaust writing, and Translation Studies.

Lillian Doherty is a Professor of Classics at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she has taught since 1984. Her home is in the Department of Classics but she is also a member of the affiliate faculties in Women’s Studies and Comparative Literature. She specializes in archaic Greek poetry, with a special emphasis on the Odyssey. She is the author of Siren Songs: Gender, Audiences, and Narrators in the Odyssey (1995) and Gender and the Interpretation of Classical Myth (2001) and the editor of Oxford Readings in Homer’s Odyssey (2008).

Robert L. Fowler was educated at Toronto and Oxford, and has been H.O. Wills Professor of Greek at the University of Bristol since 1996. He has worked on Greek epic and lyric poetry as well as Greek historiography, mythography, religion, and the history of classical scholarship. His publications include The Nature of Early Greek Lyric (1987), The Cambridge Companion to Homer (ed., 2004), and the two volumes of Early Greek Mythography (2000–2013), which collect and comment on the fragments of the first 29 Greek mythographers. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Julia Haig Gaisser is Eugenia Chase Guild Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, Professor Emeritus of Latin at Bryn Mawr College.

Greta Hawes is Early Career Fellow and Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at Australian National University. She is author of Rationalizing Myth in Antiquity (2014), is currently editing a collection of essays, Myths on the Map: The Storied Landscapes of Ancient Greece.

Gregory Hays is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia. He is the translator of Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (2003) and author of articles on various aspects of late and medieval Latin literature. He is currently finishing a new edition and translation of Fulgentius, with commentary.

Mette Hjort is Professor of Film Studies at the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen. She is the author of Small Nation, Global Cinema (2005) and Lone Scherfig’s “Italian for Beginners” (2010) and the editor, with Ursula Lindqvist, of A Companion to Nordic Cinema. She serves as co‐editor, with Peter Schepelern, for the Nordic Film Classics series.

Sarah Iles Johnston is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Scholar of Religion and Professor of Classics at The Ohio State University. She has published widely on ancient Greek religion and myths.

Didier Kahn is senior researcher at the CNRS (Cellf 16e‐18e). He is the author of Alchimie et paracelsisme en France à la fin de la Renaissance (2007). In 2010 he published an extensive annotated edition of Montfaucon de Villars’ Le Comte de Gabalis, ou Entretiens sur les sciences secrètes (1670), and in 2015 La Messe alchimique attribuée à Melchior de Sibiu. He has recently completed a new book: Chimie et alchimie: le fixe et le volatil, de Paracelse à Lavoisier (forthcoming) and is currently editing the first volume of an annotated edition of Diderot’s correspondence.

Tony Keen is an Honorary Associate and Associate Lecturer for the Open University, an Adjunct Assistant Professor for the University of Notre Dame London Global Gateway, and a Visiting Lecturer for the University of Roehampton; he teaches on classical studies, myth, cinema, and SF and fantasy literature. He writes extensively on classics and SF, and was chair of the 2013 conference Swords, Sorcery, Sandals and Space: The Fantastika and the Classical World.

Kurt Lampe is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol. His publications and teaching cross the boundaries between ancient Greek and Roman and contemporary literature and philosophy. In general, he likes to use the analysis of art (literary, visual, cinematic, etc.) in order to inspire reflection on questions of contemporary importance (e.g., agency, responsibility, selfhood, and their political and sacred contexts).

Genevieve Liveley is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol. Her principal research interests are Augustan literature, critical theory, and the classical tradition. She is co‐editor and contributor to Elegy and Narratology: Fragments of Story and author of A Reader’s Guide to Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Ovid: Love Songs.

Fiachra Mac Góráin is Lecturer in Classics at University College London. He is currently preparing a monograph entitled Virgil’s Dionysus.

Kathryn McKinley is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her research interests include Chaucer, Boccaccio, the medieval reception of classical antiquity and Ovid, images and the materiality of religious cultures in later medieval England. Her publications include Reading the Ovidian Heroine: Metamorphoses Commentaries 1100–1618 (2001); co‐editor, Ovid in the Middle Ages (2011); an article on Chaucer’s House of Fame in Meaning in Motion: The Semantics of Movement in Medieval Art (2011); and Chaucer and Boccaccio: Image, Vision and the Vernacular in the House of Fame (2016).

John Mulryan is Distinquished Board of Trustees Professor, Emeritus, at St. Bonaventure University. He has published a co‐authored translation of Natale Conti’s Mythologiae (2006), a translation of Vincenzo Cartari’s Imagini (2012), and a study of Milton and classical mythology (‘Through a Glass Darkly’: Milton’s Reinvention of the Mythological Tradition), (1996). He has also published articles on classical mythology in Shakespeare and Ben Jonson.

Sheila Murnaghan is Allen Memorial Professor of Greek at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey (2nd. edn 2011) and the co‐editor of Women and Slaves in Greco‐Roman Culture (1998) and Nostos: Odyssean Identities in Modern Cultures (2014). Her current projects include a forthcoming study of Classics and childhood in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, co‐authored with Deborah H. Roberts, and an edition with commentary of Sophocles’ Ajax.

Jeanne Nuechterlein is Senior Lecturer at the University of York, where she has taught northern Renaissance art history in the Department of History of Art and the Centre for Medieval Studies since 2000. Her research investigates various aspects of religious and secular art in Germany and the Low Countries in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and their reception in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Michael O’Neill is a Professor of English at Durham University. His recent books include The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley (2012), co‐edited with Anthony Howe and with the assistance of Madeleine Callaghan, and Poetic Form: An Introduction, co‐written with Michael D. Hurley (2012). His second collection of poems Wheel appeared in 2008.

Joanna Paul is Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University. Her monograph Film and the Classical Epic Tradition was published in 2013.

Emily Pillinger is Lecturer at King’s College London, jointly affiliated with the Department of Classics and the Liberal Arts programme. Her research to date has focused on the representation of supernatural communications in the literature of the ancient world: she has published articles on the voices of prophets, witches, and the dead. Her book Translating Cassandra: the Poetry and Poetics of Prophecy is forthcoming. She has also published on classical reception in music and is currently researching Greco‐Roman myth in music composed after World War II.

Deborah H. Roberts is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Haverford College. She is the author of Apollo and his Oracle in the Oresteia (1984), co‐editor (with Francis Dunn and Don Fowler) of Reading the End:
Closure in Greek and Latin Literature (1997), and translator of Aeschylus’ Prometheus’ Bound (2012) and other tragedies. Her current projects concern translation and reception and include a forthcoming study, co‐authored with Sheila Murnaghan, of Classics and childhood in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Lisa Saltzman

Helen SlaneyThe Senecan Aesthetic: A Performance History

teaches English and Classical literature at Brigham Young University. His publications on the classical tradition include chapters in and . His monograph on English poets and the Alcaic metre is under contract with Bloomsbury. He is the author of two volumes of poetry, and Rough Translation.

read English Language and Literature. After researching social structures with the Kleinian psychoanalyst, Elliott Jaques – who was also her PhD supervisor – she developed her psychotherapy practice, retiring in 2008. She has now retired from most of her teaching commitments but continues to write, mainly poetry.

is Professor of Greek at University College London. He is the author, most recently, of (2013).

read English at Cambridge and Oxford and for many years has written about and taught the relation between psychoanalysis, aesthetics, and literature, in the United Kingdom and overseas. She has published articles in literary and psychoanalytic journals and chapters for edited collections, and is editor for the Harris Meltzer Trust. She is a visiting lecturer in psychoanalytic studies at the Tavistock Clinic and in psychoanalytic theory for the Association for Group and Individual Psychotherapy.

is Senior Lecturer in English Literatures at the University of Wollongong. Her interdisciplinary research centers on reception theory and temporality, and has led her to publish on texts from Virgil’s (, 2011) through Derrida’s (“Eros in the age of technical reproductibility” in , 2010) to Harry Potter fan fiction (“Keeping Promises to Queer Children” in , 2007). She is currently writing a volume on Reception for Routledge’s New Critical Idiom series.

is an Assistant Professor of Classics at Amherst College. He has published on the theme of the golden age in various authors. His first book, , appeared in 2016.