This is a gold-mine of a book, that treats a fascinating subject with all the intelligent imagination, based on exhaustive research, that it so richly deserves.

Professor Peter Green, Adjunct Professor at the University of Iowa

This is a book which significantly deepens our understanding of how classics could exert an influence in a colonial context ... All in all, and most importantly, while this book answers many important questions, it also provides a wealth of evidence to support future research into the nature of the relationship between the classics and empire. It is of undoubted value to scholars specializing in the field of classical reception, classical studies more broadly, and wider audiences interested in the history of classical scholarship and modern intellectual history in a colonial context.

The Classical Journal