A comparative study exploring the particular importance of Homer in the emergence, development, and promotion of modernist writing.

Victorian Britain set out to make the ancient world its own. This is the story of how it failed.

The first in-depth exploration of Borges' classicism and a major contribution to the field of global classics and Borges studies.

Argues that immigration politics is a central - but overlooked - matter of contestation in the democratic thought of classical Athens.

Brings innovations in modern life-writing studies to Roman poetry and its reception. While its core fields are Latin poetry and reception studies, this interdisciplinary book will interest all those working on life-writing. Individual chapters focus on topics in medieval studies, Renaissance studies, Victorian literature, and modernist literature.