1st Edition
José Rizal, the Philippines, and Greco-Roman Antiquity
Introduction
Chapter 1. Biography
Chapter 2. Education
Chapter 3. Early Writing
Chapter 4. Rizal in Europe
Chapter 5. Rizal’s Novels
Chapter 6. Journalism and Historical Writing
Chapter 7. Rizal’s Final Period
Epilogue
Biography
Andreas T. Zanker is a lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Western Australia. He is the author of Horace (Brill Research Perspectives in Classical Poetry) (2024), Metaphor in Homer: Time, Speech, and Thought (2019), and Greek and Latin Expressions of Meaning (2016).
"The author makes a compelling argument about the complex ways by which Greco-Roman culture, especially Latin, was a double edged sword: used by educated, upper class colonial subjects--both native and mestizo--to signal their deference to colonialism but also to carve out spaces of critique and resistance... In his careful excavation of Greco-Roman (and Egyptian) references in Rizal's work, he demonstrates the extent of nationalism's hybrid origins and its originary cosmopolitanism that gave it a powerful appeal. I know of no one with Zanker's erudition and command of multiple languages as well as a thorough grounding in both the classics and postcolonial theory who could've possibly undertaken this work. It is truly impressive." - Vicente L. Rafael, Professor of History, University of Washington
