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Reception

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2016

Katherine Harloe  and
Joanna Paul
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Does the discipline of classical reception studies shirk questions of distinctiveness and value? Such is the gauntlet thrown down by Michael Silk, Ingo Gildenhard, and Rosemary Barrow in their 2014 magnum opus, The Classical Tradition. Full consideration of this important work must be reserved for a later issue. It is nonetheless worth rehearsing its opening distinction between ‘the classical tradition’ and ‘reception’, since thinking about it has informed our reading of a number of the books reviewed below.

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Greece & Rome , Volume 63 , Issue 2 , October 2016 , pp. 277 - 283
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Copyright © The Classical Association 2016 

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References

1 The Classical Tradition. Art, Literature, Thought. By Silk, Michael, Ingo Gildenhard, and Rosemary Barrow. Malden, MA, and Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. Pp. 530 + xii. 10 colour plates. Hardback £90.95, ISBN: 978-1-4051-5549-6 Google Scholar.

2 Martindale, C., ‘Leaving Classics for a New Century?’, Arion 18.1 (2010), 135–48Google Scholar; see too his Latin Poetry and the Judgement of Taste. An Essay in Aesthetics (Oxford, 2005).

3 Dionysus Resurrected. Performances of Euripides’ The Bacchae in a Globalizing World. By Fischer-Lichte, Erika. Malden, MA, and Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. Pp. 238 + vi. Hardback £63.50, ISBN: 978-1-4051-7578-4 Google Scholar.

4 Classical Traditions in Science Fiction. Edited by Rogers, Brett M. and Stevens, Benjamin Eldon. Classical Presences. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xiii + 380. 12 illustrations. Hardback £64, ISBN: 978-0-19-998841-9; paperback £22.99, ISBN: 978-0-19-022833-0 Google Scholar.

5 The Senecan Aesthetic. A Performance History. By Slaney, Helen. Classical Presences. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 320 + ix. 6 b/w illustrations. Hardback £70, ISBN: 978-0-19-873676-9 Google Scholar.

6 Hardwick, L., ‘Fuzzy Connections: Classical Texts and Modern Poetry in English’, in Parker, J. and Mathews, T. (eds.), Tradition, Translation, Trauma. The Classic and the Modern (Oxford, 2011), 39–60 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

7 Sex, Knowledge, and Receptions of the Past. Edited by Fisher, Kate and Langlands, Rebecca. Classical Presences. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 350 + xii. 16 b/w illustrations. Hardback £70, ISBN: 978-0-19-966051-3 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

8 Ancient Rome and the Construction of Modern Homosexual Identities. Edited by Ingleheart, Jennifer. Classical Presences. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 358 + xvii. Hardback £70, ISBN: 978-0-19-968972-9 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

9 See, for example, Orrells, Daniel, Classical Culture and Modern Masculinity (Oxford, 2011)Google Scholar and Nisbet, Gideon, Greek Epigram in Reception. J.A. Symonds, Oscar Wilde and the Invention of Desire, 1805–1929 (Oxford, 2014)Google Scholar, both reviewed in previous issues of this journal.