The Classical Tradition

'Reorganizes the field and challenges our preconceptions in both familiar areas and in disciplines that are not usually treated in studies on the classical tradition. A must read.'
- Craig Kallendorf,Texas A&M University

'An exciting read: energetic, considered, sparklingly written. One gets the feeling that all angles have been properly covered. An ambitious project brilliantly realized.'
- Matthew Bell,King's College London

'The authors have pulled off the seemingly impossible task of fusing their three voices into a single, urgently argued discourse, and for that reason among many others, this will be a wonderful book to read and to use, for all kinds of readers.'
- Terence Cave,St John's College, Oxford

'I found the text very readable and I particularly enjoyed the post-postmodernist take on many issues. It is hugely stimulating and intriguing throughout.'
- Deborah Howard, University of Cambridge

'I think this is an absolutely splendid text, unique in conception, elegant and ingenious in design, and extremely ???user-friendly??? in styling and presentation.'
- David Hopkins,University of Bristol

'A prodigiously ambitious, cornucopian book . . . so rich that no review will do it justice.'
- Paul Barolsky,University of Virginia, Arion

'Impressive power and learning.'
- Justus Cobet, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Sehepunkte

'Succeeds in providing an overarching account of a huge sweep of cultural history without losing sight of the host of nuances and particularities associated with such an overwhelmingly large topic.'
- Pablo Maurette, University of Chicago, Comparative Critical Studies

'Highly innovative...engrossing...the book is marvellously packed throughout with insights and provocations. It conducts, to its great benefit and ours, a properly theoretical enquiry.'
- Charles Martindale, University of Bristol, Translation and Literature

The classical tradition – the legacy of Ancient Greece and Rome – is a large, diverse, and important field that continues to shape human endeavour and engender wide public interest. The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature, Thought presents an original, coherent, and wide-ranging guide to the afterlife of Greco-Roman antiquity in later Western cultures and a ground-breaking reinterpretation of large aspects of Western culture as a whole – English-speaking, French, German, and Italian – from a classical perspective. Encompassing almost two millennia of developments in art,...read more...