PART A Theory of literature
1 Literary language and critical values: A dialectic of ancient and modern
Stephen Halliwell
2 What’s the meta- with you? Poetic language and metapoetics
Sebastian Matzner
3 The animal life of poetry: Variations on an impouvoir
Vasiliki Dimoula
4 When ethics and poetics were one: Weltanschauung in nineteenth-century classical philology
Boris Maslov
PART B Greek literature, archaic to classical
5 ‘Language charged with meaning’: Sappho on a dream
P. J. Finglass
6 The Thermopylai epigrams again: Herodotos 7.228
Chris Carey
7 Billy-goat song: The acoustic effect and etymology of tragōidia
Edith Hall
8 Clytemnestra’s handiwork in Aeschylus and Pindar
Oliver Taplin
9 Poetics of prose: A case study in Herodotus
Richard Rutherford
PART C The German dimension
10 Myth and ‘metaphysical reach’ in Goethe’s Iphigenie auf Tauris
Matthew Bell
11 Philology and poetry: The literary legacies of Nietzsche and Rohde
Bernhard Zimmermann
PART D Classical reflexes beyond Greece and Germany
12 Drawing a transparent veil: Sexual euphemism in literature
William Fitzgerald
13 Heroism at Troy and Hampton court: Clarissa’s speech in The Rape of the Lock
David Hopkins
PART E The language question: ‘Neo-Latin’ and ‘modern Greek’ cases
14 The quality of humanist Latin literature and the trouble with Neo-Latin
Andrew Laird
15 Glossing the modern Greek poetic canon
David Ricks
PART F Classicizing in a recalcitrant age
16 Tragedy refigured in Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings
Justine McConnell
17 Sublimity at Colonus: From Yeats to Mahon, via Heaney
Fiona Macintosh
Michael Silk: A Bibliography