The Classical Tradition

The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature, Thought presents an authoritative, coherent, and wide-ranging guide to the afterlife of Greco-Roman antiquity in later Western cultures and a ground-breaking reinterpretation of large aspects of Western culture as a whole from a classical perspective.

Michael Silk is Emeritus Professor of Classical and Comparative Literature at King's College London, UK, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA.

Ingo Gildenhard, is Reader in Classics and the Classical Tradition at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, UK.

Rosemary Barrow (d. 2016) was Reader in Classical Art and Reception at the University of Roehampton, London, UK.