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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2023

Rhiannon Easterbrook*
Affiliation:
School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK

Extract

In this issue, we have several monographs with wildly differing approaches and interests, from a tight focus on single writers’ engagement with antiquity to studies that synthesize varied materials from multiple centuries and countries. While many of them display a deep interest in the relationship between text and image, another shared theme is the nuances and tensions inherent in literary expressions of political ideology.

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Subject Reviews
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Classical Association

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References

1 The Living Death of Antiquity. Neoclassical Aesthetics. By William Fitzgerald. Classical Presences. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xii + 272. 15 colour and 27 b/w illustrations. Hardback £73, ISBN: 978-0-192-89396-3.

2 Porter, James I. (ed.), Classical Pasts. The Classical Traditions of Greece and Rome (Princeton and Oxford, 2005)Google Scholar.

3 Preposterous Virgil. Reading Through Stoppard, Auden, Wordsworth, Heaney. By Juan Christian Pellicer. New Directions in Classics. London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Pp x + 225. 1 b/w illustration. Hardback £56, ISBN: 978-1-8488-5651-6; paperback £17, ISBN: 978-1-8488-5652-3.

4 Celestial Aspirations. Classical Impulses in British Poetry and Art. By Philip Hardie. E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series, 5. Princeton and Woodstock, Princeton University Press, 2022. Pp xiv + 361. 23 colour and 48 b/w illustrations. Hardback £30, ISBN: 978-0-691-19786-9.

5 The Dragon in the West. From Ancient Myth to Modern Legend. By Daniel Ogden. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xvii + 459. 30 colour and 29 b/w illustrations. Hardback £30, ISBN: 978-0-198-83018-4.

6 Co-Workers in the Kingdom of Culture. Classics and Cosmopolitanism in the Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois. By David Withun. Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. vii + 244. 14 b/w halftones. Hardback £48, ISBN: 978-0-197-57958-9. East of the Wardrobe. The Unexpected Worlds of C. S. Lewis. By Warwick Ball. New York, Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xv + 298. 55 b/w halftones, 5 b/w line illustrations. Hardback £23, ISBN: 978-0-197-62625-2.