Books in the New Directions in Classics series

This sophisticated cross-disciplinary book will appeal not only to classicists, but also to scholars and students in the humanities more broadly, as well as beyond.

What can modern art have to do with ancient sculpture? Surely the excitement of modern art lies in its repudiation of classical example? Elizabeth Prettejohn's important and revisionist new book argues otherwise: that ancient sculpture and modern art have been in constant dialogue since Johann Joachim Winckelmann invented art history.

When Heinrich Schliemann carried out his famous excavations at Troy and Mycenae he seemed also to be giving mythical Homeric heroes like Agamemnon historical flesh, blood and bone.

The best of Greek lyric poetry pushes at the very limits of what is possible with language and meaning.