Anachronism and Antiquity

A riveting, unapologetically intelligent read … [The authors] display a thrilling sense of clarity, polymathy and rather exciting erudition, the interdisciplinarity of any true intellectual enterprise, all of which they share with true scholarly humility. * Bookanista *
A provocative and stimulating book. It offers a comprehensive study of the history of anachronism, but it goes far beyond that to explore the ways in which the Greeks and Romans – and later generations which looked to classical antiquity for inspiration – engaged with different modalities of time. Employing both texts and images, and ranging from Homer to Borges, this book shows how anachronism is inevitably – and in many cases imaginatively – inseparable from our understanding and appreciation of past and present. -- John Marincola, Leon Golden Professor of Classics, Florida State University, USA
A comprehensive, intellectually ambitious exploration of anachronism, which enriches our understanding of how we configure ‘antiquity’ as a time period. -- Ellen O'Gorman, Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Bristol, UK
This is a very timely publication, filling an important gap by showing convincingly and with an astonishingly wide range of reading from Homer to the twenty-first century that anachronisms, far from being alien to antiquity, on the contrary offer valuable insights into the historical thought of classical times, and also into Greek and Roman art and literature. * The Classical Review *