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


• 1: Nicholas Allen: 'out of eure sanscreed into oure eryan': Ireland, the Classics and Independence


• 2: Richard H. Armstrong: Marooned Mandarins: Freud, Classical Education, and the Jews of Vienna


• 3: Giovanna Ceserani: Classical Culture for a Classical Country: Scholarship and the Past in Vincenzo Cuoco's Plato in Italy


• 4: Joy Connolly: Classical Education and the Early American Democratic Style


• 5: Emily Greenwood: Mimicry and Classical Allusion in V. S. Naipaul's The Mimic Men


• 6: Constanze Guthenke: Editing the Nation: Classical Scholarship in Greece, c.1930


• 7: Asen Kirin: Eastern European Nations, Western Culture and the Classical Tradition


• 8: Andrew Laird: The Cosmic Race and a Heap of Broken Images: Mexico's Classical Past and the Modern Creole Imagination


• 9: Vassilis Lambropoulos: Unbuilding the Acropolis in Greek Literature


• 10: Fernanda Moore: How to Build a National Epic: Digenes Akrites and the Song of Roland


• 11: Grant Parker: Heraclitus on the Highveld: The Universalism (Ancient and Modern) of T. J. Haarhoff


• 12: James Porter: Auerbach, Homer, and the Jews


• 13: Haun Saussy: Contestatory Classics in 1920s China


• 14: Susan Stephens: The New Alexandrian Library


• 15: Yasunari Takada: Translatio and Difference: Western Classics in Modern Japan


• 16: Phiroze Vasunia: Alexander Sikandar

A collection of essays exploring the relationship between classics and national cultures across many regions, including China, India, Mexico, Japan, and South Africa, as well as Germany, Greece, and Italy. It poses new questions for the study of antiquity and for the history of nations and nationalisms.