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The Politics of Form in Greek Literature explores the relationship between form and political life specifically in Greek textual culture. In the last generation or so, classicists (and their counterparts in other disciplines) have begun to pay greater attention to the socio-historical contexts of literary production and sought to historicize aesthetic practice. However, historicism (and in particular New Historicism) is only one mode of approa...

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The much anticipated new work from the foremost professor of classics and postcolonialism, this book puts a wholly new perspective on how classics has shaped history.

Offering a unique cross-cultural study, this book provides a detailed account of the relationship between classical antiquity and the British colonial presence in India. Vasunia shows how classical culture pervaded the minds of the British colonizers, and highlights the many Indian receptions of Greco-Roman antiquity.

The much anticipated new work from the foremost professor of classics and postcolonialism, this book offers a wholly new perspective on how classics has shaped history.