Table of Contents:
  • Thinking through reception / Charles Martindale
  • Provocation : the point of reception theory / William W. Batstone
  • Literary history as a provocation to reception studies / Ralph Hexter
  • Discipline and receive; or, making an example out of Marsyas / Timothy Saunders
  • Text, theory, and reception / Kenneth Haynes
  • Surfing the third wave? Postfeminism and the hermeneutics of reception / Genevieve Liveley
  • Allusion as reception : Virgil, Milton, and the modern reader / Craig Kallendorf
  • Hector and Andromache : identification and appropriation / Vanda Zajko
  • Passing on the panpipes : genre and reception / Mathilde Skoie
  • True histories : Lucian, Bakhtin, and the pragmatics of reception / Tim Whitmarsh
  • Uses of reception : Derrida and the historical imperative / Miriam Leonard
  • Use and abuse of antiquity : the politics and morality of appropriation / Katie Fleming
  • Homeric moment? Translation, historicity, and the meaning of the classics / Alexandra Lianeri
  • Looking for Ligurinus : an Italian poet in the nineteenth century / Richard F. Thomas
  • Foucault's antiquity / James I. Porter
  • Fractured understandings : towards a history of classical reception among non-elite groups / Siobhán McElduff
  • Decolonizing the postcolonial colonizers : Helen in Derek Walcott's Omeros / Helen Kaufmann
  • Remodeling receptions : Greek drama as diaspora in performance / Lorna Hardwick
  • Reception, performance, and the sacrifice of Iphigenia / Pantelis Michelakis
  • Reception and ancient art : the case of the Venus de Milo / Elizabeth Prettejohn
  • Touch of Sappho / Simon Goldhill
  • (At) the visual point of reception : Anselm Feuerbach's Das Gastmahl des Platon ; or, Philosophy in paint / John Henderson
  • Uses of "reception" / Duncan F. Kennedy.