The Classics Which Is (Not) Ours

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We have framed this collection of writing about ancient Greek and Roman literature around the contrary idea of the "Greece which is (not) ours" in an attempt to capture the dynamic and creative tensions that arise when doing classical scholarship in full awareness of the different ways in which successive generations of readers and scholars have constructed ancient Greece and Rome in their own image.

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The Doubleness of Dido
By
David Quint

 Aeneas and the Aeneid transform the tale of Dido, the Punic city’s own national myth. At the same time, Virgil’s rewriting criticizes that myth on its own terms.

The Death of a Discipline
By
Dan-el Padilla Peralta

 It is well past time for this contemporary configuration of Classics to die, so that it might be born into a new life. 

Did the Greeks Believe in Their Robots?
By
Martin Devecka

A certain kind of technological innovation (or better, development) was going on all through antiquity, but there were limits to this development.

The Republic as a Metic Space
By
Demetra Kasimis

In Plato's presentation of Athenian democracy in a metic frame, Athenian membership re-emerges as a question, not a given, for political life.

Classics and the Victorians
By
Gideon Nisbet

The Victorians have been ridiculed for romantically construing ancient Greece as the sunny childhood of humanity, but doing so made sense to them.

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