The Uses and Abuses of Antiquity

Introduction - using and abusing Antiquity, Maria Wyke and Michael Biddiss this frantic woman - Boadicea and English neo-classical embarassment, Carolyn D. Williams 1845 and all that -singing Greek tragedy on the London stage, Edith Hall Jews and Greeks - the invention and exploitation of polarities in the 19th century, Tessa Rajak nationalism and the antique in 19th-century English and French art, Athena S. Leoussi Walter Pater's unsettling of the Apollonian ideal, Alex Potts the invention of modern Olympic tradition, Michael Biddiss the romanitas of the railway station, Janet DeLaine sawdust Caesar - Mussolini, Julius Caesar and the drama of dictatorship, Maria Wyke tourism, town planning and romanitas - Rimini's Roman heritage, Ray Laurence mythoplasia and feminist intent - painting as sub/culture, Angela Dimitrakaki the muses of the museum - Maud Sulter's retelling of the Sue Malvern perspectives on maternal authority -mother/daughter relationships in Sophocles' Electra and Beckett's Footfalls, Anna McMullan and Lib Taylor ancients and moderns - literature and the Western canon, Patrick Parrinder.