Classical Receptions Journal

Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies

Mapping the Eternal City: Rodolfo Lanciani’s Forma Urbis Romae Get access

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The feminine of Cicero: Anthony Trollope’s classical critique of Victorian masculinity

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Patriotism and Resistance through Translation: Aeschylus’s Persae and Ancient Greek Past in Wartime China

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The Laws of Nature: Rewriting the Myth of Demeter and Persephone in Peter Greenaway’s The Draughtsman’s Contract Get access

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Admiring the Greeks with Roman eyes: F. A. Wolf, Quintilian, and the Latin roots of German philhellenism

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Hungry for antiquity: Zbigniew Herbert and reception as ingestion

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The meaning of Mr. Tumnus: classical epic and the making of modern fantasy

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Portraying political theatre: parody and caricature, ancient and modern Get access

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Classical allusions and narrative guidance in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped Get access

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Watched men and phallus-wielding women: Aubrey Beardsley’s reception of Juvenal’s Sixth Satire Get access

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Quod mentem moneat: Monuments and memory in Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist (1970) Get access

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Circe, the female hero. First-person narrative and power in Madeline Miller’s Circe Get access

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‘Mankind Dame’: John Studley’s early modern Clytemnestra Get access

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The haunting of classics in the Dark Academia aesthetic

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Performing Homeric islands: Homeric receptions in (post-)Hellenistic Asia Get access

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W. E. B. Du Bois’s universal history in Black Folk Then and Now (1939) Get access

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The classical drama as contested heritage in modern Greece: theatre productions from private initiatives to state projects in the 1930s Get access

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‘Something Mythic’:  The power of shared stories in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire Get access

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