This volume explores how classical antiquity influenced the writings of poets, translators, and scholars emerging from modern Jewish diasporas, Mandatory Palestine, and the State of Israel. The chapters examine themes including the destruction of home, displacement, and different forms of wandering and homecomings.

Vered Lev Kenaan and Patricia A. Rosenmeyer: Classical Transformations Part I. Classical Scholarship in Times of Crisis 1: Patricia A. Rosenmeyer: After Lights Out: Studying Classics in a Second World War Internment Camp 2: Vered Lev Kenaan: Shlomo Dykman's Aeneid: A Journey from Holocaust to Revival 3: Simon Goldhill: Resisting Reception: The Treachery of the Self Part II. Philosophical Wanderings 4: James I. Porter: The Genesis of Rachel Bespaloff 's De l'Iliade 5: Galili Shahar: The Odyssey, Otherwise 6: Miriam Leonard: Cholent and the 'False Divinity' of Greece: Hannah Arendt's Hellenism Part III. Translation and Survival 7: Donna Shalev: Yiddish Translations of Classical Texts: Plato in the Mamalushn and the Metropolis 8: Richard H. Armstrong: Ay de mi Alhama: Impossible Chronologies of Love, Loss, and Learning in Freud and Moshe Ha-Elion 9: Vered Lev Kenaan and Ahlam Nubani: Translation in Exile: Ma.hm=ud al-Gh=ul's Aeneid Part IV. Classics and the Secularization of Modern Hebrew 10: Yotam Cohen: The Classical Turn in Hebrew Literature in the Early Twentieth Century: The Role of the Literary Editor 11: Aminadav Dykman: The Reception of Classical Literature in Hebrew: A Very Brief Survey 12: Tsafi Sebba-Elran: Knowledge, Power, and Control in Modern Jewish Folktales of Alexander the Great Part V. Mediterranean Classics: Receptions by Israeli and Palestinian Poets 13: Giacomo Loi: From Enemy to Ruins: Roman Empire and Decadence in the Poetry of Dan Pagis and Haim Gouri 14: Kawthar Aslah and Haim Dorchin: Homeric Memory in Israeli and Palestinian Poetry: Meir Wieseltier and Mahmoud Darwish 15: Daniel Behar: 'Because of What Is Frozen': Back to the Classics in the Poetry of Israel Pincas and Walid Khazendar

Vered Lev Kenaan is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Haifa. Her work focuses on the connections between classical studies, comparative literature, reception studies, and psychoanalysis. Among her numerous publications, she is the author of The Ancient Unconscious: Psychoanalysis and the Ancient Text (OUP, 2019), and Pandora's Senses: The Feminine Character of the Ancient Text (Wisconsin University Press 2008). Patricia A. Rosenmeyer is Paddison Distinguished Professor of Classics and Director of the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She taught previously at Michigan, Yale, and Wisconsin. Her books include The Poetics of Imitation: Anacreon and the Anacreontic Tradition (Cambridge, 1992), Ancient Epistolary Fictions (Cambridge, 2001), Ancient Greek Literary Letters (Routledge, 2006), Epistolary Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature ( Brill, 2013;), and The Language of Ruins: Greek and Latin Inscriptions on the Memnon Colossus (OUP, 2018).

Presents new investigations in the field of classical reception: in the writings of European Jewish exiles, Sephardi Jews, Arab Jews and Palestinians Includes excerpts from personal archives of classical scholars and translators to shed new light on Jewish classical scholarship and classical reception during and after the Holocaust Broadens the focus of classical reception to influences on modern Arabic-language poetry and translations