Charlie Kerrigan - Virgil’s Map: Geography, Empire, and the Georgics

Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception

Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception presents scholarly monographs offering new and innovative research and debate to students and scholars in the reception of Classical Studies. Each volume will explore the appropriation, reconceptualization and recontextualization of various aspects of the Graeco-Roman world and its culture, looking at the impact of the ancient world on modernity. Research will also cover reception within antiquity, the theory and practice of translation, and reception theory.

Also available in the series:

Alexander the Great in the Early Christian Tradition: Classical Reception and Patristic Literature, Christian Thrue Djurslev

Antipodean Antiquities, edited by Marguerite Johnson

Classics in Extremis, edited by Edmund Richardson

Faulkners Reception of Apuleius The Golden Ass in The Reivers, by Vernon L. Provencal

Greek and Roman Classics in the British Struggle for Social Reform, edited by Henry Stead and Edith Hall

Greeks and Romans on the Latin American Stage, edited by Rosa Andjar and Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos

Homers Iliad and the Trojan War: Dialogues on Tradition, Jan Haywood and Naose Mac Sweeney

Julius Caesars Self-Created Image and Its Dramatic Afterlife, Miryana Dimitrova

Kinaesthesia and Classical Antiquity 17501820: Moved by Stone, Helen Slaney

Reading Poetry, Writing Genre, edited by Silvio Br and Emily Hauser

Sex, Symbolists and the Greek Body, Richard Warren

The Classics in Modernist Translation, edited by Miranda Hickman and Lynn Kozak

The Thucydidean Turn: (Re)Interpreting Thucydides Political Thought Before, During and After the Great War, Benjamin Earley

Translations of Greek Tragedy in the Work of Ezra Pound, Peter Liebregts

Victorian Epic Burlesques, Rachel Bryant Davies

The work for this book was done at Trinity College, Dublin, first as a non-foundation scholar and later as a research fellow in the Department of Classics. As such it owes a lot not just to friends and colleagues in the Department, but to many in the wider TCD community. The Irish material in Chapter 7 was first published as Virgils Georgicsand Nineteenth-Century Ireland in Classics Ireland25 (2018): my thanks to the editor Shane Wallace for his support. Special thanks to Monica Gale, David Scourfield, Anna Chahoud and Winifred Ryan; to Stephen Harrison and Susanna Braund; to Alice Wright, Georgina Leighton and Lily Mac Mahon at Bloomsbury; and to all those who read, reviewed and helped in production. Matthew Leighs training at Oxford in 201314, though it pre-dates this project, helped me a great deal. This book would not be the book it is without Ciarn, Rob, Nandini and Nita; it wouldnt have been written without the support of my family Mum and Dad, Olivia and Jack to whom I dedicate it now.

Abbreviations of Greek and Latin authors and their works correspond to those used in the Oxford Classical Dictionary(see OCD, below); abbreviations of journal titles are those used in LAnne philologique.