Classics and National Cultures

The texts, ideas, images, and material culture of ancient Greece and Rome have always been crucial to attempts to appropriate the past in order to authenticate the present. They underlie the mapping of change and the assertion and challenging of values and identities, old and new. Classical Presences brings the latest scholarship to bear on the contexts, theory, and practice of such use, and abuse, of the classical past.

Susan A. Stephens is Professor of Classics at Stanford University. Phiroze Vasunia is Reader in the Department of Classics at the University of Reading.

Introduction
'out of eure sanscreed into oure eryan': Ireland, the Classics and Independence
Marooned Mandarins: Freud, Classical Education, and the Jews of Vienna
Classical Culture for a Classical Country: Scholarship and the Past in Vincenzo Cuoco's Plato in Italy
Classical Education and the Early American Democratic Style
Mimicry and Classical Allusion in V. S. Naipaul's The Mimic Men
Editing the Nation: Classical Scholarship in Greece, c.1930
Eastern European Nations, Western Culture and the Classical Tradition
The Cosmic Race and a Heap of Broken Images: Mexico's Classical Past and the Modern Creole Imagination
Unbuilding the Acropolis in Greek Literature
How to Build a National Epic: Digenes Akrites and the Song of Roland
Heraclitus on the Highveld: The Universalism (Ancient and Modern) of T. J. Haarhoff
Auerbach, Homer, and the Jews
Contestatory Classics in 1920s China
The New Alexandrian Library
Translatio and Difference: Western Classics in Modern Japan
Alexander Sikandar
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