Examining the profusion of ways in which the arts, culture, and thought of Greece and Rome have been transmitted, interpreted, adapted and used,A Companion to Classical Receptions explores the impact of this phenomenon on both ancient and later societies.Provides a comprehensive introduction and overview of classical reception - the interpretation of classical art, culture, and thought in later centuries, and the fastest growing area in classicsBrings together 34 essays by an international group of contributors focused on ancient and modern reception concepts and practicesCombines close readings of key receptions with wider contextualization and discussionExplores the impact of Greek and Roman culture worldwide, including crucial new areas in Arabic literature, South African drama, the history of photography, and contemporary ethics

Lorna Hardwick is Professor of Classical Studies and Director of the Reception of Classical Texts Research Project at the Open University. Her publications on Greek cultural history and its reception in modern theatre and literature includeTranslating Words, Translating Cultures (2000),New Surveys in the Classics: Reception Studies (2003) and (co-edited with Carol Gillespie)Classics in Post-colonial Worlds (2007).

Christopher Stray is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Wales, Swansea. He is the author ofClassics Transformed: Schools Universities, andSociety in England 1830-1960 (1998), and editor ofThe Owl of Minerva (2005),Classical Books (2007) andRemaking the Classics (2007).

List of Figures ix

Notes on Contributors xi

Acknowledgements xviii

Introduction: Making Connections 1
Lorna Hardwick and Christopher Stray

Part I Reception within Antiquity and Beyond 11

1 Reception and Tradition 13
Felix Budelmann and Johannes Haubold

2 The Ancient Reception of Homer 26
Barbara Graziosi

3 Poets on Socrates Stage: Platos Reception of Dramatic Art 38
Chris Emlyn-Jones

4 Respectable in Its Ruins: Achaemenid Persia, Ancient and Modern 50
Thomas Harrison

5 Basil of Caesarea and Greek Tragedy 62
Ruth Webb

Part II Transmission, Acculturation and Critique 73

6 Our Debt to Greece and Rome: Canon, Class and Ideology 75
Seth L. Schein

7 Gladstone and the Classics 86
David W. Bebbington

8 Between Colonialism and Independence: Eric Williams and the Uses of Classics in Trinidad in the 1950s and 1960s 98
Emily Greenwood

9 Virgilian Contexts 113
Stephen Harrison

Part III Translation 127

10 Colonization, Closure or Creative Dialogue?: The Case of Popes Iliad 129
David Hopkins

11 Translation at the Intersection of Traditions: The Arab Reception of the Classics 141
Ahmed Etman

12 Enough Give in It: Translating the Classical Play 153
J. Michael Walton

13 Lost in Translation? The Problem of (Aristophanic) Humour 168
James Robson

Part IV Theory and Practice 183

14 Making It New: André Gides Rewriting of Myth 185
Cashman Kerr Prince

15 What Difference Was Made?: Feminist Models of Reception 195
Vanda Zajko

16 History and Theory: Moses and Monotheism and the Historiography of the Repressed 207
Miriam Leonard

17 Performance Reception: Canonization and Periodization 219
Pantelis Michelakis

Part V Performing Arts 229

18 Iphigénie en Tauride and Elektra: Apolline and Dionysiac Receptions of Greek Tragedy into Opera 231
Michael Ewans

19 Performance Histories 247
Fiona Macintosh

20 Body and Mask in Performances of Classical Drama on the Modern Stage 259
Angeliki Varakis

21 The Nomadic Theatre of the Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio: A Case of Postdramatic Reworking of (the Classical) Tragedy 274
Freddy Decreus

22 Aristophanes between Israelis and Palestinians 287
Nurit Yaari

Part VI Film 301

23 Working with Film: Theories and Methodologies 303
Joanna Paul

24 The Odyssey from Homer to NBC: The Cyclops and the Gods 315
Hanna M. Roisman

25 A New Hope: Film as a Teaching Tool for the Classics 327
Marianne McDonald

Part VII Cultural Politics 343

26 Possessing Rome: The Politics of Ruins in Roma capitale 345
Catharine Edwards

27 You unleash the tempest of tragedy: The 1903 Athenian Production of Aeschylus Oresteia 360
Gonda Van Steen

28 Multicultural Reception: Greek Drama in South Africa in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-first Centuries 373
Betine van Zyl Smit

29 Putting the Class into Classical Reception 386
Edith Hall

Part VIII Changing Contexts 399

30 Reframing the Homeric: Images of the Odyssey in the Art of Derek Walcott and Romare Bearden 401
Gregson Davis

31 Platos Stepchildren: SF and the Classics 415
Sarah Annes Brown

32 Aristotles Ethics, Old and New 428
Rosalind Hursthouse

33 Classicizing Bodies in the Male Photographic Tradition 440
Bryan E. Burns

34 Homer in British World War One Poetry 452
Elizabeth Vandiver

Part IX Reflection and Critique 467

35 Reception Studies: Future Prospects 469
James I. Porter

Bibliography 482

Index 533