Sphinx

Next post from the conference to follow in the next day or so, but in the meantime a little bit of advertising: delighted to announce the publication of the volume I’ve edited with Katherine Harloe, presenting papers from the original 2007 workshops in Bristol, Oxford and Cambridge on the modern reception of Thucydides, along with a couple of specially-commissioned ones. It’s been quite a marathon – particular apologies to Nadia Urbinati and any other contributors who’ve spent the last three years wishing they hadn’t let themselves be persuaded to sign up rather than publish their ideas elsewhere – but the end result is well worth it, a very nicely produced volume (the cover more than justifies the screaming nightmare of permissions and uncommunicative photographers it took to achieve) with a wide range of contributions. Obviously I don’t get to review my own publication; suffice it to say that this is precisely the sort of thing that didn’t exist back when I first stumbled across the topic of Thucydidean reception…

Link to CUP catalogue here.