1st Edition
Robert E. Sherwood and the Classical Tradition The Muses in America
Introduction: A Group of Brilliant People Named Robert E. Sherwood
1. The Curious Case of Barnum Was Right
2. The Ghosts of Battle: Robert E. Sherwood on The Road to Rome
3. Acropolis
4. Post Acropolis, Post Apocalypse
Conclusion
Biography
Robert J. Rabel is Professor of Classics at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky. He has also taught at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. He is the author of Plot and Point of View in the Iliad (1997) and editor of Approaches to Homer, Ancient and Modern (2005). He has also written articles on Homer, Greek tragedy, Greek and Roman philosophy, Greek history, Roman epic, Classics and film, and Classical influences on American drama. He is currently working on a book dealing with the survival of Greek and Roman gods and goddesses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction.
