Classics and the Uses of Reception

This landmark collection presents a wide variety of viewpoints on the value and role of reception theory within the modern discipline of classics. A pioneering collection, looking at the role reception theory plays, or could play, within the modern discipline of classics. Emphasizes theoretical aspects of reception. Written by a wide range of contributors from young scholars to established figures, from Europe, the UK and the USA. Draws on material from many different fields, from translation studies to the visual arts, and from politics to performance. Sets the agenda for classics in the future.

List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: Thinking Through Reception 1 Charles Martindale 1 Provocation: The Point of Reception Theory 14 William W. Batstone Part I Reception in Theory 21 2 Literary History as a Provocation to Reception Studies 23 Ralph Hexter 3 Discipline and Receive; or, Making an Example out of Marsyas 32 Timothy Saunders Copyrighted Material 4 Text, Theory, and Reception 44 Kenneth Haynes 5 Surfing the Third Wave? Postfeminism and the Hermeneutics of Reception 55 Genevieve Liveley 6 Allusion as Reception: Virgil, Milton, and the Modern Reader 67 Craig Kallendorf 7 Hector and Andromache: Identification and Appropriation 80 Vanda Zajko 8 Passing on the Panpipes: Genre and Reception 92 Mathilde Skoie 9 True Histories: Lucian, Bakhtin, and the Pragmatics of Reception 104 Tim Whitmarsh 10 The Uses of Reception: Derrida and the Historical Imperative 116 Miriam Leonard 11 The Use and Abuse of Antiquity: The Politics and Morality of Appropriation 127 Katie Fleming Part II Studies in Reception 139 12 The Homeric Moment? Translation, Historicity, and the Meaning of the Classics 141 Alexandra Lianeri 13 Looking for Ligurinus: An Italian Poet in the Nineteenth Century 153 Richard F. Thomas 14 Foucault’s Antiquity 168 James I. Porter 15 Fractured Understandings: Towards a History of Classical Reception among Non-Elite Groups 180 Siobhán McElduff 16 Decolonizing the Postcolonial Colonizers: Helen in Derek Walcott’s Omeros 192 Helen Kaufmann 17 Remodeling Receptions: Greek Drama as Diaspora in Performance 204 Lorna Hardwick 18 Reception, Performance, and the Sacrifice of Iphigenia 216 Pantelis Michelakis 19 Reception and Ancient Art: The Case of the Venus de Milo 227 Elizabeth Prettejohn 20 The Touch of Sappho 250 Simon Goldhill 21 (At) the Visual Point of Reception: Anselm Feuerbach’s Das Gastmahl des Platon; or, Philosophy in Paint 274 John Henderson 22 Afterword: The Uses of “Reception” 288 Duncan F. Kennedy Bibliography 294 Index 325