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.

This landmark collection presents a wide variety of viewpoints onthe value and role of reception theory within the modern disciplineof classics.* A pioneering collection, looking at the role reception theoryplays, or could play, within the modern discipline ofclassics.* Emphasizes theoretical aspects of reception.* Written by a wide range of contributors from young scholars toestablished figures, from Europe, the UK and the USA.* Draws on material from many different fields, from translationstudies 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 1Charles Martindale1 Provocation: The Point of Reception Theory 14William W. BatstonePart I Reception in Theory 212 Literary History as a Provocation to Reception Studies 23Ralph Hexter3 Discipline and Receive; or, Making an Example out of Marsyas 32Timothy Saunders Copyrighted Material4 Text, Theory, and Reception 44Kenneth Haynes5 Surfing the Third Wave? Postfeminism and the Hermeneutics of Reception 55Genevieve Liveley6 Allusion as Reception: Virgil, Milton, and the Modern Reader 67Craig Kallendorf7 Hector and Andromache: Identification and Appropriation 80Vanda Zajko8 Passing on the Panpipes: Genre and Reception 92Mathilde Skoie9 True Histories: Lucian, Bakhtin, and the Pragmatics of Reception 104Tim Whitmarsh10 The Uses of Reception: Derrida and the Historical Imperative 116Miriam Leonard11 The Use and Abuse of Antiquity: The Politics and Morality of Appropriation 127Katie FlemingPart II Studies in Reception 13912 The Homeric Moment? Translation, Historicity, and the Meaning of the Classics 141Alexandra Lianeri13 Looking for Ligurinus: An Italian Poet in the Nineteenth Century 153Richard F. Thomas14 Foucault's Antiquity 168James I. Porter15 Fractured Understandings: Towards a History of Classical Reception among Non-Elite Groups 180Siobhán McElduff16 Decolonizing the Postcolonial Colonizers: Helen in Derek Walcott's Omeros 192Helen Kaufmann17 Remodeling Receptions: Greek Drama as Diaspora in Performance 204Lorna Hardwick18 Reception, Performance, and the Sacrifice of Iphigenia 216Pantelis Michelakis19 Reception and Ancient Art: The Case of the Venus de Milo 227Elizabeth Prettejohn20 The Touch of Sappho 250Simon Goldhill21 (At) the Visual Point of Reception: Anselm Feuerbach's Das Gastmahl des Platon; or, Philosophy in Paint 274John Henderson22 Afterword: The Uses of "Reception" 288Duncan F. KennedyBibliography 294Index 325