Nora Goldschmidt is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. She is the author of Shaggy Crowns: Ennius' Annales and Virgil's Aeneid (2013) and Afterlives of the Roman Poets: Biofiction and the Reception of Latin Poetry (2019).

• Introduction


• 1: Papyrus


• 2: Editions


• 3: Inscriptional Modernism


• 4: Modernism and the museum: Making, Consuming, and Displaying Sculptural Fragments in the British Museum


• 5: Archaeologisms


• Postscript: After Modernism

Fragmentary Modernism has been called the 'apotheosis of the fragment' in the art and writing of modernism. Modernism and classical scholarship are often seen to be entirely separate spheres of activity, but a complex network of interaction bound the two together, shaping how we still consume and interpret the fragments of antiquity today.