The Uses and Abuses of Antiquity

The editors are based at the University of Reading, where Maria Wyke (born 1957) is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Michael Biddiss (born 1942) is Professor of History.

Contents: Maria Wyke and Michael Biddiss: Introduction: using and abusing antiquity - Carolyn D. Williams: 'This frantic woman': Boadicea and English neo-classical embarrassment - Edith Hall: 1845 and all that: singing Greek tragedy on the London stage - Tessa Rajak: Jews and Greeks: the invention and exploitation of polarities in the nineteenth century - Athena S. Leoussi: Nationalism and the antique in nineteenth-century English and French art - Alex Potts: Walter Pater's unsettling of the Apollonian ideal - Michael Biddiss: The invention of modern Olympic tradition - Janet DeLaine: The romanitas of the railway station - Maria Wyke: Sawdust Caesar: Mussolini, Julius Caesar, and the drama of dictatorship - Ray Laurence: Tourism, town planning and romanitas : Rimini's Roman heritage - Angela Dimitrakaki: Mythoplasia and feminist intent: painting as sub/culture - Sue Malvern: The Muses and the museum: Maud Sulter's retelling of the canon - Anna McMullan and Lib Taylor: Perspectives on maternal authority: mother/daughter relationship in Sophocles' Electra and Beckett's Footfalls - Patrick Parrinder: Ancients and moderns: literature and the 'Western Canon'.