Barbara Graziosi - Homer in the Twentieth Century: Between World Literature and the Western Canon

CLASSICAL PRESENCES

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Lorna Hardwick James I. Porter

CLASSICAL PRESENCES

The texts, ideas, images, and material culture of ancient Greece and Rome have always been crucial to attempts to appropriate the past in order to authenticate the present. They underlie the mapping of change and the assertion and challenging of values and identities, old and new. Classical Presences brings the latest scholarship to bear on the contexts, theory, and practice of such use, and abuse, of the classical past.

Between World Literature and
the Western Canon

Edited by

BARBARA GRAZIOSI

and

EMILY GREENWOOD

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To Paul Cartledge and Pat Easterling

THIS book has its origins in a conference held in Durham from 20 to 23 July 2004. We are grateful to several institutions for their financial support: the British Academy, the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, the Department of Classics and Ancient History (Durham University), and the School of Classics (University of St Andrews). Several individuals helped us with comments and practical help: we are particularly grateful to Pat Easterling, Edith Hall, Johannes Haubold, Jon Hesk, David Hunt, Greg Woolf, Hedwig Haubold, Victoria Maddocks, and Esther McGilvray. Hilary OShea of Oxford University Press expressed an interest in the project even before the conference had taken place: her patience and support helped us see the book through to its completion. At the time of the conference we benefited from the generous ideas and criticism of the participants: although we cannot name them individually, we would like to record their contribution. At a later stage, the project benefited from the searching comments of the Series Editors and the anonymous reader for Oxford University Press. Ranja Knbl helped us to edit the volume and compile the index with great energy and good humour: her contribution was extremely valuable. Ashley Clements helped with the illustrations. Veronica Ions and Virginia Masardo saved us from many errors and infelicities. We happily acknowledge how much we owe to the contributors to this volume; their individual chapters have prompted us to think harder and further about the plurality of Homeric receptions in the twentieth century; while their commitment and support have made working on this volume an enjoyable experience. We would also like to thank Johannes Haubold and David Milne for their support and encouragement throughout this project, especially during the editing phase. We dedicate this book to Paul Cartledge and Pat Easterling: they supervised our Ph.D. dissertations when we were graduate students in Cambridge and, even while we were grappling with specific aspects of archaic and classical Greece, encouraged us to look beyond Europe and antiquity in search of possible future dialogues.

B. G. and E. G.
Durham and Ballater,
May 2006

BARBARA GRAZIOSI and EMILY GREENWOOD

JOHANNES HAUBOLD

LORNA HARDWICK

RICHARD MARTIN

STEPHEN MLNTA

BARBARA GRAZIOSI

EMILY GREENWOOD

OLIVER TAPLIN

GREGSON DAVIS

FRANOISE LTOUBLON

DAVID RICKS

SIMON GOLDHILL

SETH L. SCHEIN

Gregson Davis is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Duke University, where he is the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Dean of Humanities. His main research foci are Latin literature of the Late Republic and contemporary Caribbean poetry (francophone and anglophone). Among his major publications are Polyhymnia: The Rhetoric of Horatian Lyric Discourse (Berkeley, 1984) and Aim Csaire (Cambridge, 1997). He is currently writing a monograph on Virgils Eclogues.

Simon Goldhill is Professor of Greek at Cambridge University. He has published widely on Greek literature and on the relation between Greek culture and modern culture. His most recent books are Who Needs Greek? Cultural Contests in the History of Hellenism (Cambridge, 2002); The Temple of Jerusalem (London, 2005), and Love, Sex and Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes our Lives (Chicago, 2005). His next book is