A collection of essays constituting the first comprehensive study of the relationship between classical ideas and British colonialism. The contributors demonstrate that ideas about the Greek and Roman world since the eighteenth century developed hand-in-hand with the rise and fall of the British Empire. INDICE: Mark Bradley: Introduction; I. Classical Scholarship and Imperial Hegemonies; 1: Kostas Vlassopoulos: Imperial encounters: discourses on empire and the uses of ancient history during the eighteenth century; 2: Rama Mantena: Imperial ideology and the uses of Rome in discourses on Britain's Indian Empire; II. Classics and the Superior Race; 3: Margaret Williamson: 'The mirror-shield of knowledge': classicizing the West Indies; 4: Debbie Challis: 'The ablest race': the ancient Greeks in Victorian racial theory; III. Empire and the Classical Text; 5: Mark Bradley: Tacitus' Agricola and the conquest of Britain: representations of Empire in Victorian and Edwardian England; 6: David Fearn: Imperialist fragmentation and the discovery of Bacchylides; IV. Decline and Danger; 7: Adam Rogers & Richard Hingley: Edward Gibbon and Francis Haverfield: the traditions of imperial decline; 8: Emma Reisz: Classics, race, and Edwardian anxieties about empire; V. Relocating the Classical; 9: Abhishek Kaicker: Visions of modernity in revisions of the past: Altaf Hussain Hali and the 'Legacy of the Greeks'; 10: Margaret Malamud: Translatio Imperii: America as the New Rome c.1900; Phiroze Vasunia: Envoi
- ISBN: 978-0-19-958472-7
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 360
- Fecha Publicación: 07/10/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés