Examining the profusion of ways in which the arts, culture, and thought of Greece and Rome have been transmitted, interpreted, adapted and used, A Companion to Classical Receptions explores the impact of this phenomenon on both ancient and later societies.

List of Figures ix Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgements xviii Introduction: Making Connections 1 Lorna Hardwick and Christopher Stray Part I Reception within Antiquity and Beyond 11 1 Reception and Tradition 13 Felix Budelmann and Johannes Haubold 2 The Ancient Reception of Homer 26 Barbara Graziosi 3 Poets on Socrates’ Stage: Plato’s Reception of Dramatic Art 38 Chris Emlyn-Jones 4 ‘Respectable in Its Ruins’: Achaemenid Persia, Ancient and Modern 50 Thomas Harrison 5 Basil of Caesarea and Greek Tragedy 62 Ruth Webb Part II Transmission, Acculturation and Critique 73 6 ‘Our Debt to Greece and Rome’: Canon, Class and Ideology 75 Seth L. Schein 7 Gladstone and the Classics 86 David W. Bebbington 8 Between Colonialism and Independence: Eric Williams and the Uses of Classics in Trinidad in the 1950s and 1960s 98 Emily Greenwood 9 Virgilian Contexts 113 Stephen Harrison Part III Translation 127 10 Colonization, Closure or Creative Dialogue?: The Case of Pope’s Iliad 129 David Hopkins 11 Translation at the Intersection of Traditions: The Arab Reception of the Classics 141 Ahmed Etman 12 ‘Enough Give in It’: Translating the Classical Play 153 J. Michael Walton 13 Lost in Translation? The Problem of (Aristophanic) Humour 168 James Robson Part IV Theory and Practice 183 14 ‘Making It New’: André Gide’s Rewriting of Myth 185 Cashman Kerr Prince 15 ‘What Difference Was Made?’: Feminist Models of Reception 195 Vanda Zajko 16 History and Theory: Moses and Monotheism and the Historiography of the Repressed 207 Miriam Leonard 17 Performance Reception: Canonization and Periodization 219 Pantelis Michelakis Part V Performing Arts 229 18 Iphigénie en Tauride and Elektra: ‘Apolline’ and ‘Dionysiac’ Receptions of Greek Tragedy into Opera 231 Michael Ewans 19 Performance Histories 247 Fiona Macintosh 20 ‘Body and Mask’ in Performances of Classical Drama on the Modern Stage 259 Angeliki Varakis 21 The Nomadic Theatre of the Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio: A Case of Postdramatic Reworking of (the Classical) Tragedy 274 Freddy Decreus 22 Aristophanes between Israelis and Palestinians 287 Nurit Yaari Part VI Film 301 23 Working with Film: Theories and Methodologies 303 Joanna Paul 24 The Odyssey from Homer to NBC: The Cyclops and the Gods 315 Hanna M. Roisman 25 A New Hope: Film as a Teaching Tool for the Classics 327 Marianne McDonald Part VII Cultural Politics 343 26 Possessing Rome: The Politics of Ruins in Roma capitale 345 Catharine Edwards 27 ‘You unleash the tempest of tragedy’: The 1903 Athenian Production of Aeschylus’ Oresteia 360 Gonda Van Steen 28 Multicultural Reception: Greek Drama in South Africa in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-first Centuries 373 Betine van Zyl Smit 29 Putting the Class into Classical Reception 386 Edith Hall Part VIII Changing Contexts 399 30 Reframing the Homeric: Images of the Odyssey in the Art of Derek Walcott and Romare Bearden 401 Gregson Davis 31 ‘Plato’s Stepchildren’: SF and the Classics 415 Sarah Annes Brown 32 Aristotle’s Ethics, Old and New 428 Rosalind Hursthouse 33 Classicizing Bodies in the Male Photographic Tradition 440 Bryan E. Burns 34 Homer in British World War One Poetry 452 Elizabeth Vandiver Part IX Reflection and Critique 467 35 Reception Studies: Future Prospects 469 James I. Porter Bibliography 482 Index 533

From antiquity to the present, Greek and Roman literature, drama, myths, ideas and art have influenced every aspect of human achievement. Examining the profusion of ways in which the arts, culture and thought of Greece and Rome have been transmitted, interpreted, adapted and used, this volume explores the impact of this phenomenon on both ancient and later societies. A Companion to Classical Receptions is a comprehensive guide to the field that combines close readings of key receptions with wider contextualization and discussion. The volume brings together essays on ancient and modern reception concepts and practices, and focuses on key turning points and areas of convergence and divergence. Contributors explore the impact of Greek and Roman culture worldwide, including discussions of new research on Arabic literature, South African drama, the history of photography and contemporary ethics. The book challenges readers to reassess their assumptions about both the ancient and the modern world, and reveals the vitality of classical culture and its centrality to modern debates.

"This variegated and sizeable volume has for me been stimulating and informative, a pleasure to read for review . . . The ‘future paths' he proposes seem to me to amount to different configurations of intellectual history, so no surprises there; but his clear statement of the opportunities offered by reception studies in the classroom is admirable, and his call for ‘a new kind of classicist-academic: the engaged public intellectual' is visionary. " (Translation and Literature, 2011)  

“It is impossible in a short review to do justice to every single contribution of this multifaceted volume. One of the many attractive features of this collection is that it offers not only innovative essays about the reception and translation of the most read authors of antiquity … but also expands the horizon of the reception studies by introducing into the discussion untraditional themes and providing original approaches to the concepts frequently discussed in the context of reception.” (The Classical Outlook, Fall 2008) "This volume is an essential introduction to reception studies for both school and university students … .Written in an accessible and engaging manner with useful sections for further reading." (Journal of Classics Teaching, Autumn 2008) "…importantly, this volume exemplifies the recent boom in reception studies, and its potential to critique our subject and methodology." (Greece and Rome, Vol 55 No. 2 2008) "The scale of this enterprise is such that the complete collection will compete with established reference works … and should prove useful." (Scholia Reviews, 2008) "Hardwick and Stray's Companion pushes lingering worries about elitism and irrelevance right off the table. Companion offers bold reasons to treat classical studies as the cosmopolitan glue of the postmodern world. The book sparkles with the excitement that makes A Companion to Classical Receptions such an eye-opening delight." (Times Literary Supplement, October 2008) "Bursting-at-the-seams … An eye-opening delight." (Times Literary Supplement) "A spectacular volume from the massive series of 'Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World' … The editors have pulled in a wider splay of trades and topics than any of their companions' companions or their own now mushrooming rivals can boast." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review) "There is sufficient careful scholarship, critical analysis, and contextualisation in this collection to warrant the claim that it provides a sophisticated and far-ranging overview of this burgeoning and dynamic field." (Scholia)

Figures. Contributors. Introduction: Making Connections Part I: Reception within Antiquity and Beyond. Part II: Transmission, Acculturation and Critique. Part III: Translation. Part IV: Theory and Practice. Part V: Performing Arts.  Part VI: Film. Part VII: Cultural Politics. Part VIII: Changing Contexts. Part IX: Reflection and Critique. Bibliography. Index.